Mitchell A. Kaplan

Mitchell A. Kaplan, PhD. CPSP is a program evaluation and grant writing consultant in private practice in New York City. He is a professional writer and researcher. Dr. Kaplan received his PhD in sociology from the City University of New York’s Graduate School and University Center in Brooklyn. He received his master’s degree in sociology from the New School for Social Research.   

MIchelle Perales

Paul Dosal

Paul Hoogeveen

Philip Babcock and Mindy Marks

Philip Babcock (babcock@econ.ucsb.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of California-Santa Barbara. Mindy Marks (mindy.marks@ucr.edu) is an assistant professor at the University of California-Riverside.

Ricardo B. Jacquez

After spending 34 years on the campus of New Mexico State University as a faculty member, and then dean of the school’s College of Engineering Ricardo Jacquez retired in 2015. He had been dean of the College of Engineering for the past five years. In his career, Jacquez has served as a principal investigator on more than 30 grants totaling about $40 million. Jacquez is the founding director of the New Mexico Alliance for Minority Participation and the New Mexico AMP Bridge to the Doctorate program.   

Robert D. Meckel

Journalist Robert Meckel was born in Mission, Texas, son of a first-generation Mexican Texan mother and a father of German ancestry. Meckel discovered his interest in writing and journalism during high school, and went on to study first at Pan American College in Edinburg, Texas, and then to The University of Texas at Austin, where he earned a journalism degree. Meckel’s early career included photojournalism assignments and coverage of the civil rights movement in South Texas. After working at the Corsicana Daily Sun in the early 1970s, he joined the Houston Post, where he worked until the newspaper’s shut down in 1995. That same year he joined the University of Texas at Austin Office of Public Affairs, later known as University Communications. Source: “Robert Meckel Papers Contribute rich Trove of Mexican American-themed journalism to Benson”, Benson Latin American Collection (http://www.lib.utexas.edu/benson/announcements/robert-meckel-papers-contribute-rich-trove-mexican-american-themed-journalism), accessed October 22, 2015.

Rosie Carbo

Rosie Carbo is a graduate of The University of North Texas in Denton, where she earned a bachelor of arts degree in Journalism. She began her newspaper career as a reporter in a Dallas suburb. She contributed features to the Dallas Morning News on a freelance basis for nearly 10 years. Carbo has covered the gamut of issues from politics, police and the courts to education, art, music, travel and features. Her work has appeared People magazine, New York Daily News, the Houston Chronicle's Texas magazine, San Antonio Express-News, the Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education, Hispanic and Hispanic Business.   

Stephen Balkaran

Stephen Balkaran, is currently an instructor of philosophy at Central Connecticut State University.

Steven P. Schneider

Steven P. Schneider is Professor of English at The University of Texas- Pan American, where he also serves as Director of New Programs and Special Projects for the College of Arts and Humanities. Steven is a founding member of the South Texas Literacy Coalition in the Rio Grande Valley and is the recipient of two Big Read grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has used the Borderlines: Drawing Border Livestraveling exhibit to promote the teaching of culturally relevant literature and creativity. Steven offers a variety of workshops on these topics to both high school and college students and teachers.

Thomas G. Dolan

Tomás Castellanos