Zócalo Public SquareAdvocate for the Unhoused Shawn Pleasants – Zócalo Public Square https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org Ideas Journalism With a Head and a Heart Mon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:54 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 Advocate for the Unhoused Shawn Pleasants https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/06/15/advocate-for-unhoused-shawn-pleasants/personalities/in-the-green-room/ https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/2021/06/15/advocate-for-unhoused-shawn-pleasants/personalities/in-the-green-room/#respond Tue, 15 Jun 2021 23:15:08 +0000 Admin https://legacy.zocalopublicsquare.org/?p=120728 Shawn Pleasants is an advocate for unhoused people in Los Angeles. A former banker and entrepreneur with an economics degree from Yale, he himself lived here unhoused for 10 years. Before joining “What Will It Take to End Homelessness in L.A.?,” a Zócalo/United Way event co-presented with the Committee for Greater Los Angeles, he talked in the green room about inter-solar system travel, his morning routine, and the necessity of hope.

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