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.

In the 1990 and 2000s, he helped students develop solutions to poverty by taking them to live at homeless shelters, the Navajo and Lakota nations, the Gulf Coast, and Kingston, Jamaica.

Below is a list of some of the victories that social action students have had at San José State: In addition, Myers-Lipton was a member of  “Commemorating A Legacy Project Committee” at SJSU, which developed the Tommie Smith and John Carlos statues.

After the statues were erected, Myers-Lipton founded the “Ad Hoc Tommie Smith and John Carlos Committee” since the university was not planning to commemorate October 16, the day they raised their fists in Mexico City.

As a public intellectual, Myers-Lipton felt compelled to respond to the murder of George Floyd and Ahmaud Arbery, and the shooting of Breonna Taylor, and the global uprising that took place.