Sean Basinski is the Director of the Street Vendor Project. The Street Vendor Project works to correct the social and economic injustice faced by street vendors in New York City. Reaching out to vendors on the street, the organization holds clinics to educate vendors about their legal rights. Working to support a local vendors' rights movement, they organize vendors to participate in the political process that determines their fate.
Sean Basinski received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center and his undergraduate degree from the University of Pennsylvania. For nine months before he started law school, Sean built a pushcart and sold Mexican food on Park Avenue and 52nd Street.
We linked up with a bigger nonprofit organization called the Urban Justice Center and UJC and they have sort of an entrepreneurial model in fact, where they say, well if you want to do good work, okay, and you can raise the money by yourself to do it, well you can come and join us if we have the spa...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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