GP Dinner #178 | Universal Basic Income

WHAT: GP DINNER #178 | Universal Basic Income

WHERE: Manny's, 3092 16th Street, San Francisco, CA 94103

WHEN: 6:00 to 9:00pm on July 21st, 2024

PLEASE NOTE: ATTENDANCE LIMITED TO FIRST 40 PEOPLE WHO SECURE A TICKET HERE. YOU'RE WELCOME TO GIFT OR TRANSFER YOUR SPOT TO A FRIEND IF YOUR PLANS CHANGE. JUST LET US KNOW IN ADVANCE.

Please join us for our 178th dinner on July 21st at Manny's in San Francisco's Mission district.

Expect cocktails at 6:00 and our speaker around 6:45 with a family style feast introduced around 7:00, prepared by our professional chef. Wines will be thoughtfully paired with the menu.

This evening will include a sneak peek screening of clips from the upcoming docuseries Bootstraps, a deep dive exploration of universal basic income (UBI) that documented the lives and experiences of eleven diverse American households receiving a basic income for over two years.

ATTIRE: Attire is relaxed and informal.

About Good People Dinners: GP Dinners is a community built around meaningful ​conversations and delicious feasts, a moveable social club for those who value authenticity, a better way to connect with each other. We are also an event production business and regularly create tailored dinner series for a wide range of companies and organizations.

Our dinners are hosted at a variety of venues in the Bay Area, at Camp Earnest near Yosemite NP and around the country and the world. Every dinner includes a speaker on a wide range of topics and a chef prepared feast. To learn more about us, please visit our Founding Principles page.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Deia Schlosberg is an American documentary filmmaker and producer. She is the recipient of one Emmy and two Student Emmys. Her October 2016 arrest while filming an anti-fossil fuel protest in North Dakota led to a viral #freedeia social media campaign and an open letter to President Barak Obama co-signed by 30 celebrities. Deia was charged with 45 years' worth of felonies and misdemeanors, which contributed to a worrying pattern of attacks on journalistic freedom..

Conrad Shaw is a researcher, producer, writer, and activist in the Universal Basic Income (UBI) space. A mechanical engineer turned filmmaker,in 2016 he launched into full time UBI work when he teamed up with his now wife and partner Deia Schlosberg on a docuseries project called Bootstraps, for which he designed and managed the Bootstraps Basic Income Experiment - delivering basic incomes of $1K/month to 22 Americans across 10 states for 2.5 years - and field-produced for the film production side of the project.

Conrad also created the UBIcalculator as a tool for the movement, wrote a couple dozen essays on different facets of UBI, and in 2020 became a co-founder of Comingle, a startup company building a next gen mutual aid platform designed along basic income principles. In 2023, Conrad also co-founded the Income to Support All Foundation.

Scott Santens has been researching and advocating for the concept of unconditional universal basic income (or UBI) since 2013.

Acknowledged by former U.S. presidential candidate Andrew Yang as one of those who helped shape his thinking, Scott has lived with a basic income floor via Patreon since 2015 which has enabled him to focus on popularizing the concept full-time ever since.

Scott is the Founder and President of the Income To Support All Foundation (ITSA Foundation) and also serves on the board of directors of the Gerald Huff Fund for Humanity and as the editor of Basic Income Today — a daily UBI news hub.

His debut book about UBI and how to pay for it is titled Let There Be Money. You can buy it on Amazon or listen to it on your favorite podcast platform.

OUR CHEF:

Our friend Sam Lippman is a Bay Area chef with over 15 years experience working within innovative companies and kitchens. He has cooked at Google, Cafe Soulstice, and he created and lead the food program at Airbnb from 2011 through 2016.

Chef Sam just wrapped up his work in R&D and Marketing at Hooray Foods, where he was the company’s first hire. Sam’s food tends towards paleo, plants, and puns. Most importantly, he hopes everyone has a great time and learns something new with each meal.

OUR MENU:

To be announced soon.

Please email us at least 72 hours in advance if you have any dietary restrictions and we'll do our best to accommodate them.

Below: Our fire pit in front of the Good People Lodge at Camp Earnest.

Drinks at 6:00, dinner at 7:00. Though a cocktail and some wine will be provided, guests are welcome to bring a bottle of wine to share.

Menu update will come soon to help you choose your bottles. We always make sure vegetarian friends will have plenty to eat. Please contact Raman or Karin in advance if you have any other dietary restrictions.

If you are wondering how you were included in this invitation, or would like to be removed, please contact ramanfrey@gmail.com

To sign up for future events, please register at

www.gpdinners.com

To learn more about the former summer camp we've purchased and refurbished near Yosemite, please visit us here. Camp Earnest is available for a campus buyout for groups from 15 to 75 guests at a time.

www.campearnest.com

Below: Catherine Connors speaks on Biomimicry in Hollywood at a recent GP Dinner in SF.