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Scott Myers-Lipton (born September 15, 1959) was a former professional tennis player in the early 1980s, and sociologist at San José State University for 24 years, where he focused on teaching students about democracy and power by launching and working on campaigns to change policy.
A left-handed player from San Jose, California, Lipton won the Central Coast Section (CCS) in high school and the Northern California Sectionals in the Boys 18s in 1977, and then went on to be a three-time All-American college tennis player at the University of San Diego, before competing on the professional tour from 1981 to 1984.
Lipton was twice featured in the main draw of the US Open. In 1982 he lost a fifth set tiebreak to Vincent Van Patten to exit in the opening round. Returning in 1983 he played another five set match to start the tournament, but won on this occasion, over Jim Gurfein. He was beaten in the second round by Aaron Krickstein. Lipton finished 2nd overall on the Dutch Satellite Tour in 1980 as an amateur, and won a singles Satellite Tournament in Varna, Bulgaria in 1981.
On the professional tour, he reached his best ranking of #105 in the world in 1983. His best performance on the Grand Prix circuit was a semi-final appearance at the 1983 Swedish Open, where he beat world #7 Henrik Sundström in the quarter-finals.
Scott Myers-Lipton was a professor of Sociology at San José State University (SJSU) from 1999 to 2023. Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, now professor emeritus of Sociology at SJSU, is the author of five books, including:
In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton was the lead author from 2020-2025 of the Silicon Valley Pain Index and the author of Racial and Social Justice at San José State University. In addition Dr. Myers-Lipton served as an Advisory Board Member of the Human Rights Institute at SJSU from 2019-2025.
Currently, Dr. Myers-Lipton is the Director of Teaching Social Action.
Myers-Lipton is a public intellectual. He was the faculty advisor to his students' successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San José from $8 to $10, and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, an initiative to develop 100,000 prevailing wage jobs for local and displaced workers after Hurricane Katrina. In the 1990 and 2000s, he helped SJSU students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. For over 17 years, Scott taught a social action course at SJSU. Social action is unique in that it is designed to do democracy; instead of just reading about social change, students learn about power and democracy by launching and working on campaigns to change a policy. Myers-Lipton is working with Bobby Hackett at the Bonner Foundation to mainstream teaching social action across the country on college campuses (https://www.bonner.org/social-action-course-initiative-launched). Below is a list of some of the victories that social action students have had at San José State:
Scott Lipton
Scott Myers-Lipton (born September 15, 1959) was a former professional tennis player in the early 1980s, and sociologist at San José State University for 24 years, where he focused on teaching students about democracy and power by launching and working on campaigns to change policy.
A left-handed player from San Jose, California, Lipton won the Central Coast Section (CCS) in high school and the Northern California Sectionals in the Boys 18s in 1977, and then went on to be a three-time All-American college tennis player at the University of San Diego, before competing on the professional tour from 1981 to 1984.
Lipton was twice featured in the main draw of the US Open. In 1982 he lost a fifth set tiebreak to Vincent Van Patten to exit in the opening round. Returning in 1983 he played another five set match to start the tournament, but won on this occasion, over Jim Gurfein. He was beaten in the second round by Aaron Krickstein. Lipton finished 2nd overall on the Dutch Satellite Tour in 1980 as an amateur, and won a singles Satellite Tournament in Varna, Bulgaria in 1981.
On the professional tour, he reached his best ranking of #105 in the world in 1983. His best performance on the Grand Prix circuit was a semi-final appearance at the 1983 Swedish Open, where he beat world #7 Henrik Sundström in the quarter-finals.
Scott Myers-Lipton was a professor of Sociology at San José State University (SJSU) from 1999 to 2023. Dr. Scott Myers-Lipton, now professor emeritus of Sociology at SJSU, is the author of five books, including:
In addition, Dr. Myers-Lipton was the lead author from 2020-2025 of the Silicon Valley Pain Index and the author of Racial and Social Justice at San José State University. In addition Dr. Myers-Lipton served as an Advisory Board Member of the Human Rights Institute at SJSU from 2019-2025.
Currently, Dr. Myers-Lipton is the Director of Teaching Social Action.
Myers-Lipton is a public intellectual. He was the faculty advisor to his students' successful effort to raise the minimum wage in San José from $8 to $10, and the Gulf Coast Civic Works Campaign, an initiative to develop 100,000 prevailing wage jobs for local and displaced workers after Hurricane Katrina. In the 1990 and 2000s, he helped SJSU students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica. For over 17 years, Scott taught a social action course at SJSU. Social action is unique in that it is designed to do democracy; instead of just reading about social change, students learn about power and democracy by launching and working on campaigns to change a policy. Myers-Lipton is working with Bobby Hackett at the Bonner Foundation to mainstream teaching social action across the country on college campuses (https://www.bonner.org/social-action-course-initiative-launched). Below is a list of some of the victories that social action students have had at San José State: