Marching Students: Chicana and Chicano Activism in Education, 1968 to the Present

Contributors

195 c o n t r i b u t o r s margarita berta-ávila is an Associate Professor in the Bilingual/ Multicultural Education Department in the College of Education, California State University, Sacramento. alejandro covarrubias is a lecturer at California State University, Los Angeles’s Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and a Visiting Faculty member at ucla’s Cesar Chavez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. julie lópez figueroa is an Associate Professor in the Department of Ethnic Studies in the College of Social Science and Interdisciplinary Studies , California State University, Sacramento. xico gonzález is an artist, poet, and political and cultural activista based in Sacramento, California. In 2003 González was presented with the Freedom Bound Center’s Dolores Huerta Activist Award by the famous Chicana activist and cofounder (along with Cesar Chavez) of the United Farm Workers Union. In 2004 González founded the Brown Syndicate, a Raza arts organization devoted to promoting Raza arts. eracleo guevara is a Spanish high school teacher in the Sacramento City Unified School District. adriana katzew is Assistant Professor of Art Education at the Massachusetts College of Art and Design (Boston). lilia r. de katzew is chair of Chicana and Chicano Studies in the Ethnic and Gender Studies Department at California State University, Stanislaus. 196 c o n t r i b u t o r s rita kohli serves as Clinical Faculty in ucla’s “Urban Education for Social Justice” Teacher Education Program, supporting the development of new teachers in Los Angeles schools. carlos muñoz jr. is Professor Emeritus at the University of California, Berkeley, in the Department of Ethnic Studies, and is Affiliated Faculty in the university’s Center for Latin American Studies. He is the award-winning author of Youth, Identity, Power: The Chicano Movement (2007), a classic study of the Mexican American civil rights movement. edward m. olivos is an Assistant Professor of Teacher Education at the University of Oregon, specializing in bilingual education and bicultural parental involvement. alejo padilla teaches in the Social Science Department at Galt High School. carmen e. quintana is a bilingual fourth grade teacher in the South Bay Union School District, an esl teacher at Chula Vista Adult School in the Sweetwater Union High School District, and an Adjunct Professor at San Diego State University and Inter American College. evelyn m. rangel-medina is the Policy Director for the Green-Collar Jobs Campaign at the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights where she crafts climate, racial and economic justice policy solutions that will build a green economy strong enough to lift people out of poverty. marianna rivera is a Minority Engineering Program Recruitment Counselor in the School of Engineering and Computer Science, California State University, Sacramento. daniel g. solórzano is a Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education in the Graduate School of Education and Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles. He also has a joint appointment as Professor in the Chicana and Chicano Studies Department and is an affiliated Professor in the Women’s Studies Department. He is the Direc- c o n t r i b u t o r s 197 tor of the University of California All Campus Consortium on Research for Diversity. In 2007 Professor Solórzano was awarded the ucla Distinguished Teacher Award. carlos tejeda is an Assistant Professor in the School of Education in the Division of Educational Foundations and Interdivisional Studies, California State University, Los Angeles. anita tijerina revilla is an Assistant Professor in Women’s Studies at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. ...