Allen Narcisse is the CEO of Gigs, a marketplace that lists jobs with varying degrees of flexibility and requiring different skill levels. He previously had leading roles at UberEATS and Lyft, and was COO of Workrise. Before sitting on a panel for the Zócalo/The James Irvine Foundation public program in Oakland, “What Is a Good Job Now? In Gig Work,” he swung by the green room to chat vinyl, Iowa, and Denzel.
Levi Sumagaysay reports on the California economy for CalMatters. She previously worked at MarketWatch and the Mercury News. Before moderating the Zócalo/The James Irvine Foundation panel in Oakland, …
Shelly Steward is the chief research officer at The Workers Lab and former director of the Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative. Before sitting on a panel for …
Californians used to envy residents of our beautiful, wine-and-wealth-drenched Central Coast. Now we have reason to pity them.
And not just because Nicole Kidman has thrown her star power into producing …
What is the historic “California dream”—the one people still talk about today? How does California’s 21st-century reality differ from that dream? And what is the California dream of today and …
Should California recruit more military veterans to move here?
If that question seems ridiculous, it’s only because we have some mistaken ideas about both California and veterans.
The first common but incorrect …
