Meet the Panelists

Judith F. Baca Professor of Chicana/o Studies, UCLA
Laura Bohórquez Dream Educational Empowerment (DEEP) Coordinator, United We Dream
Jean-Michel Dissard Director & Producer, I Learn America & Human Library
Leyda Garcia Principal, UCLA Community School
Louis Gomez Professor of Education and of Information Studies, UCLA
Maryam Kia-Keating Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology, UCSB
Nancy McNamara President and CEO, Academic Web Pages, Co-Developer Voices of Immigrant Americans
Brian Murphy President, De Anza College
Sita G. Patel Assistant Professor of Clinical Psychology, Palo Alto University
Hilary Pennington VP Education, Creativity and Free Expression Program, Ford Foundation
Jean Rhodes Professor of Psychology and Director of the Center for Evidence-Based Mentoring
Conrado Santos Lead Coordinator for the Student Immigrant Movement (SIM)
Doris Sommers Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures and of African and African American Studies, Harvard
Adam Strom Director of Scholarship & Innovation, Facing History & Ourselves
Carola Suárez-Orozco Professor of Human Development and Psychology, UCLA
Marcelo M. Suárez-Orozco UCLA Graduate School of Education and Information Studies
Robert Teranishi Professor of Social Science and Comparative Education, UCLA
Monica Thammarath Senior Liaison, Minority Community Organizing & Partnerships, National Education Association
Mary Waters Professor of Sociology, Harvard University