Courses and Workshops

Over the past four years, the California 100 Initiative has focused on inspiring a vision and strategy for California’s next century that is innovative, sustainable, and equitable. The work and findings have been incubated by the University of California and Stanford.

This course spotlights California's future in four crucial areas:

• Fostering economic growth and business success to ensure prosperity;
• Saving the state's water and transforming its agriculture to deal with climate change;
• Ensuring enough housing at reasonable prices to shelter its population and to reduce homelessness, and;
• Reforming California's governance and reviving its media to make this possible while ensuring democratic accountability.

Each session will describe the challenges California faces and discuss alternative futures for the state. It will include guest speakers.

Faculty Bio

Henry E. Brady is the Monroe Deutsch Distinguished Professor Political Science and Public Policy at UC Berkeley, the Research Director for California 100 Initiative, and former Dean of the Goldman School of Public Policy.

Lindsay Maple is the Deputy Director of Research for California 100 and a Senior Project Lead at the Possibility Lab. Previously, Lindsay served as a Senior Auditor with the California State Auditor’s Office.

This is an Encore Course

• Encore courses are popular courses that were recorded a previous term.
• All pre-recorded class videos and course materials will be available to enjoy from April 1–May 31 in the Member Dashboard. Learn more.
• You must be a current OLLI @Berkeley member to register. Learn about membership, including our fee assistance program.

Member Praise for "The Golden State?"

The presentations were thorough and extremely informative — my favorite was the one on water. So much to think about!

Excellent presentations by professor Brady and his guest lecturers.

Faculty Q&A

• Read an interview with Henry Brady from our archive.