James Papp is a historian and architectural historian practicing in San Luis Obispo. He also serves as executive director of the Coastal Awakening, a nonprofit group that focuses on the avant-garde artistic, social, and spiritual movements that have flourished on the Central Coast. He grew up in California and New Zealand, did his undergraduate and graduate work at UCSD and UCLA, served in the Peace Corps in Slovakia, and did a postdoc at the Free University of Berlin, before working as an academic editor and administrator in New York City. He writes on local issues for the Tribune Opinion section and appears regularly as a history commentator on local radio and television.
Since participating in the Black Lives Matter protests last year, he has concentrated on speaking and writing on the history of race and racism in San Luis Obispo County and California.
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