As the ILS 2016 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Manuel Pastor will present a public lecture titled “Looking Forward: Demographic Change, Economic Uncertainty and the American Future.” Professor Pastor is a professor of Sociology and American Studies at the University of Southern California, as well as director of the Program for Environmental and Regional Equity, and director of the Center for the Study of Immigration Integration. The lecture is being held in conjunction with his participation in the Young Scholars Symposium being convened March 15-17th by the Institute for Latino Studies.