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Living in the Shadow of Silicon Valley
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium
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Sponsored by Mission Local
Co-presented with Bay Area Book Festival and San Francisco Public Library

Sure, Silicon Valley’s wealth, power, and technological innovation loom large over the entire Bay Area—but what about the rest of us? Tonight we’ll hear from three authors who can share deep knowledge of Silicon Valley’s effects on Bay Area housing, economic inequality, urban planning, and public policy. Investigative journalist Brian Barth (Front Street: Resistance and Rebirth in the Tent Cities of Techlandia), anthropologist Manissa Maharawal (Anti-Eviction: The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco), and journalist Jonathan Weber (City on the Edge: Technology, Politics, and the Fight for the Soul of San Francisco) will be joined by architect and urban planner Vinita Goyal. Doors at 5:30pm.

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Vinita Goyal

Vinita Goyal is trained as an architect and urban planner and advances regenerative and restorative models that center the leadership of low income communities of color. She serves as Community Investment Director of Full Spectrum Labs, a US-based think tank, incubator, and accelerator, and as... Read More →
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Brian Barth

Brian Barth is an award-winning independent journalist with bylines in the New Yorker, National Geographic, Washington Post, The New Republic and Mother Jones, among other publications. He lives between the Bay Area and California's remote Lost Coast region, where he is developin... Read More →
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Manissa Maharawal

Manissa Maharawal is an assistant professor of Anthropology at American University in Washington D.C. and a member of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. Her first book Anti-Eviction: The Fight Against Tech-Led Gentrification in San Francisco received the Setha M Low award for Engaged Anthropology... Read More →
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Jonathan Weber

Jonathan Weber was named the Los Angeles Times’s first-ever Silicon Valley reporter in 1990. He was later editor in chief of The Industry Standard, which chronicled—and lived—the first dot-com boom. He served as editor in chief of The Bay Citizen, a local news nonprofit, an... Read More →
Tuesday October 20, 2026 6:00pm - 7:30pm PDT
SFPL Main Branch, Koret Auditorium 100 Larkin St, San Francisco
  Nonfiction, FREE

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