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're going to keep on growing. Right now we've got about 600 members and we'd like to get to 1000 members which would be about 10% of the vending population and of course there's a lot of room for upside growth there. Whether or not vendors are members though, we want them to know about the... we ...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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