Education: Ph.D. History (2005) - University of California, Los Angeles; B.A. History (1991) - University of California, Santa Cruz
Areas of Interest: Chicana/o History, 19th c. U.S. History, History of Art and Social Movements, Labor History, History of California
Experience: 2006 - present: Professor of History at Santa Ana College
2005: Received doctoral degree in History from UCLA 2003: Smithsonian Fellowship in Washington D.C. through the Institute for the Interpretation and Representation of Latina/o Cultures
2002-2004: Graduate Teaching Fellow at UCLA, specializing in seminars on Work and Labor History in the U.S. and on Art and Social Justice
2000-2004: Co-founder and worker at Arts in Action, Los Angeles -- a non-profit artists collective that brought politics together with visual and performing arts
1998-2002: Union organizer and contract negotiator with the UC Graduate Student Employees Association, through the UAW. Negotiated the first contract ever between graduate student employees and the UC after a seventeen-year struggle! 1992-1996: Social Studies teacher at Millikan High School in Long Beach, CA
Publications: Self Help Graphics & Art: Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles. The Chicano Archives, Vol. 1. Chicano Studies Research Center Press, 2005. Self Help Graphics & Art: Art in the Heart of East Los Angeles
