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“I can’t say that this is someone who had his eye on the White House from the get-go,” said Shawn Landres, a high school friend who served on the Columbia College Student Council with Garcetti and now chairs a government-performance commission for the County of Los Angeles. “But this is someone I always knew would […]

As my friend Shawn Landres, co-editor of Religion, Violence, Memory and Place, put it, they are creating a Jewish ‘Overton Window’: a bounded space where trans-partisan agreement is possible. We may disagree on whether there should be a path to citizenship, for example. But we agree that it isn’t pro-family to tear families apart.

The other [organizing] committee members are former L.A. Congressman Mel Levine, civics scholar and social entrepreneur Shawn Landres, UCLA Jewish history professor David Myers, political consultant Dan Loeterman and attorney Janice Kamenir-Reznik.

Santa Monica’s Social Services Commission chair believes the City could see a significant portion of that money. “It has been really unrelenting in terms of across the county seeing the rise in the number of women and children who are homeless,” Landres said. “It’s just unacceptable. A rise in the number of seniors who are

“I …look forward to the City now having the time and the energy to turn its attention to the many many many other challenges and opportunities before us.”

Santa Monica’s Shawn Landres has been elected chair of the Los Angeles County Quality & Productivity Commission, which oversees the nation’s oldest and largest local government innovation fund. …He is the youngest commission chair in nearly two decades. 

The council heard from Shawn Landres, who serves on the City’s Social Services Commission. He called the measure “vital.” Landres said, “We as a City have invested so much to combat homelessness and to prevent homelessness. It’s time that other jurisdictions step up.” Although homelessness has long been an issue in Santa Monica, the City

Shawn Landres, Ph.D., co-founder of Jumpstart, a Los Angeles think tank known for its research into charitable giving, says …”We do know that there are people with resources who are now choosing to give to a charity rather than buy that extra boat or that $5,000 case of Champagne. “There’s also a generational style that