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.
Well I had no idea what to do, and I never really knew where to turn but I just started talking to vendors on the street. It's pretty difficult to get yourself started as a vendor, you have to get a license for you and that takes a month or two and a bunch of paperwork you know, with the city and t...(Full transcript available to logged in subscribers.).
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