Manuel Pastor is a professor in the departments of Sociology and American Studies & Ethnicity at the University of Southern California (USC). He currently directs the USC Program for Environmental and Regional Equity and the Center for the Study of Immigrant Integration. Pastor's research focuses on movement building and the economic, environmental and social conditions facing low-income communities. He writes and speaks nationally on issues including demographic change, economic inequality, and community empowerment. Pastor holds the Turpanjian Chair in Civil Society and Social Change at USC and has received Liberty Hill Foundation's Wally Marks Changemaker Award for social justice research partnerships.