July, 2009

Employment History

Public Information Officer, State of California, Board of Equalization, District Office, Board Chair Judy Chu, Monterey Park, 2007-2008

Senior Assistant, Environmental Policy, State of California, Office of Assemblymember Cindy Montañez, 39^th District

Adjunct Professor, Earth Sciences, Santa Monica College: Fall, 2004, Oceanography

Adjunct Professor, Earth Sciences, Los Angeles Valley College: Fall, 2003, Spring-Fall, 2004, Physical Geography and Oceanography, Environmental Science

Lecturer, 1996-2002: Dept. of Geography, Box 159524, University of California, Los Angeles, California, 90095-1524; International Development Studies, 10347 Bunche Hall

Librarian/Counselor, 1991-1995: Environmental Science, Policy and Management, University of California, Berkeley, ESPM Resource Center

Graduate Student Instructor: 1982-1991, University of California, Berkeley, Geography, ESPM, Peace and Conflict Studies

Professional goals:  University-level teaching or consulting in environment and economic development, marine and coastal studies, Latin American Studies, urban environments, and U.S.-Mexico relations.  Research interests: agriculture and food policy, marine and coastal zone problems, urban environments, global environmental issues, Mexican Studies.

Education

University of California at Santa Barbara, Major: Philosophy, 1973-1975

University of California at Santa Cruz, Double Major:  Environmental/Community Studies, 1977-1978

University of California at Berkeley, B.Sc.  Conservation & Resource Studies, 1978-1979

Area of Interest:  The Political Economy of Agriculture in Latin America.

University of California at Berkeley, M.A.  Human Geography, 1981- 1985

Thesis:  Petroleum Revenue, Agriculture and the State in Venezuela

University of California at Berkeley, Ph.D. Ad Hoc Individual Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in

Ecology and Development Policy, 1995

Thesis:  Catches, Commerce and Crisis:  Fisheries, Government and Trade in

the Mexican port of Guaymas, Sonora

Awards and Fellowships

UCLA, Distinguished Teaching Award, non-ladder faculty, 2000-2001

UC Berkeley, Chancellor's Dissertation Year Fellowship, 1991-1992

Inter-American Foundation, Doctoral Fellow, 1990-1991

Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, UCB - Venezuela - 1984

Tinker Foundation Travel Grant, Center for Latin American Studies, UCB - Mexico - 1990

UC Berkeley, Distinguished Teaching Assistant - 1988 (Conservation & Resource Studies)

UC Berkeley, Distinguished Teaching Assistant - 1985 (Geography)

UC Berkeley, Graduate Minority Program Fellow - 1984-86

Teaching Experience

Graduate Student Instructor

Six Teaching Assistantships at UC Berkeley: 1980-1984, in Geography, Conservation & Resource Studies (ESPM), Peace & Conflict Studies

Four courses taught as a Graduate Student Instructor (lecturer) (UC Berkeley): 1985-1994 two were on American environmental politics. Population, Resources and Development; Political Ecology, Industrialization of the non-industrial world, Indigenous People and Development

Faculty Lecturer, UCLA  (all courses are four units)

International Development Studies

Core courses:

IDS 100A: Major Development Ideas and Case Studies, Global Economy and Theory Fall, 1997, Fall, 1999, Winter 2000, Fall 2001

IDS 100B: Introduction to the Political Economy of Development:  research methods and presentation; Global Trade, Economic Sectors, Multinational Firms Winter, 1996, Winter 1998, Winter 2000, Spring, 2000, Winter 2001, Fall 2001

Electives (all are IDS 197)

Oceans and Coasts, Spring 1998, Spring 1999

Indigenous Peoples & Economic Development, Fall, 1998, Fall 2000

Research Methods in Interdisciplinary Social Science, Winter 1999

Mexican Rural Development and Agriculture, Spring 2000

Geography and Latin American Studies

Geography 5: People and their Ecosystems: Contemporary Environmental Problems, Summer, 1996, Fall, 1998, Spring 1998

Geography 182A: Spanish-speaking Latin America: environment and development. Fall, 1996,

Geography 181: Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean Spring, 1997, Summer, 1998, Summer 2001

Geography 121: Conservation and Development in the Third World, Spring, 1998

Geography M128: Environment and Development, Spring 2001, Spring 2002

Faculty Lecturer, UC Berkeley (four units)

Environmental Science, Policy and Management: 165: Comparative International Rural Development, Spring 2002

Adjunct Professor, Los Angeles Valley College (three units)

Earth Sciences

Physical Geography 1: Landscape Appreciation, 2003, 2004, 2008, 2009

Oceanography 1: Fundamentals of Oceanography, Fall 2003- Spring 2004, Fall, 2004

Environmental Science 1: 2005-2009, Essentials of Environmental Science

Environmental Science 22: 2009, Lab (2 units)

Adjunct Professor, Santa Monica College (three units)

Earth Sciences: Geology 31: Introduction to the Study of the World's Oceans, Fall, 2004

Selected Guest and Public Lectures

"Land Reform and the Restructuring of Agriculture in Peru", C.R.S., 1985, UCB

"Petroleum Revenue in a Developing Economy", Geography and C.R.S., 1986, 1990, UCB

"Debates and Trends on Human Population Growth and Natural Resources", 10 lectures, UCB, UCSC

"The Mexican State and the Agricultural Sector", C.R.S., 1987, 1990, UCB

"The Economic and Ecological Implications of the Modernization of Eating", 1989, 1992, UCB

"Population Issues in the Environmental and Pro-Choice Movements", San Francisco, N.O.W., 1990

"Global Trends and Local Impacts in Commercial Fishing in Developing Countries", C.R.S., 1991, UCB

"Economic Restructuring in Mexican Fisheries", faculty talk series, C.R.S. 1991, UCB

"NAFTA and its Environmental Impact in Mexico", 4 lectures, 1993, UCB

"The Implications of NAFTA for U.S. foreign policy", Assoc. of Retired Foreign Service Officers, Berkeley, 1993

"The Origins of Conflict in Chiapas, neo-liberal reforms and regional differences in Mexico", 1994, UCB

"The Pacific Rim and marine resource policy" Summer Institute for Pacific Rim Studies, UCLA, 1996

"Paradoxes in US-Latin American Relations," Commencement Address, UCLA, Latin American Studies, 1997

"Conservation and Over-fishing in the Developing World" 2 lectures Environmental Science, UCLA, 2000

"Environmental Justice Movements in Latin America" Univ. of Southern California, Geography Dept 2004

"Environmental Budget, Clean Air and Latinos in LA" KPFK-FM Luis Cabrales, Spanish language program, 2004

"Los Angeles air basin and federal, state and regional clean air regulations" guest lecture, LAVC, 2004

Selected Papers Presented

"The Political Economy of Fisheries Development in Mexico", presented at the XVII International Congress of the Latin American Studies Association, September 25, 1992, Los Angeles

"Party Politics in the Coastal Zone: Another Requiem for Guaymas fisheries", paper to be presented at the 91st Annual Conference of the Association of American Geographers, March 15, 1995, Chicago

"Multilateral marine fisheries treaties and development policy since UNCED, international trade trends and South countries," presented at Land, Sea, Human Effort, an international conference sponsored by the International Geographical Congress, August 4 -10, 1996, the Hague, Netherlands

"Trade-based development policies and the failure of an international oceans regime: the importance of NGO activism" 1999, AAG, Honolulu

Committees

City of West Hollywood, Environmental Task Force, reviewed and discussed green building and planning objectives for the City in light of the revision of the General Plan. 2008

Editorial Collective, Latin American Perspectives, a scholarly progressive journal on social and political change in Latin America and the Caribbean. Review submitted reports from editorial board for upcoming issues of the journal.  2004-2010

Faculty Advisory Committee for International Development Studies, UCLA, 1998-2001: Developed curriculum requirements and reviewed course content offered by various departments and suggested to IDS majors to fulfill the various tracks offered within the interdisciplinary major as areas of emphasis or clusters. 

Graduate Assembly Representative, U.C.B. Committee on Educational Development, Teaching Improvement and Educational Services, 1983-1984.  Represented the Graduate Assembly, reviewed applications for course improvement grants, distinguished teaching awards for faculty, and campus-wide re-structuring of Graduate Student Instruction training standards.

Activities — Consultant/Researcher

Prevention Research Center, Berkeley, Calif., 2004: Field research and data gathering for Los Angeles County study on tobacco use, Roland Moore, project director, Pacific Institute for Research and Evaulation

Union of Concerned Scientists, Berkeley, Calif., 2004: Provided Spanish language skills as well as organizational campaign work in Los Angeles area for legislative change on transportation pollution, Kevin Finney, coordinator.

Partito Radicale, Rome, Italy, 2002: "The American Experience in Drug Reform: the special case of medicinal uses for cannabis and the federal vs. state conflict," press conference, radio interview and television (RAI-sat) appearances.

CIBER, Center for International Business Education and Research, Andersen Business School, UCLA, 1997:  with Joshua Muldavin, "Comparisons of rural development trends under state-led market reforms: China and Mexico"

Sterling-Rice Group, Boulder Colorado, April, 1996. Consultant, presented and discussed food trends and the future in a three day retreat organized for S-R client company.  Represented sustainable farming and organic agriculture.

Sepesca, Secretaría de Pesca, Mexico City , 1994: "Marine Mammal Protection and Trade disputes in tuna," analysis of American environmental politics and Mexican policy for a U.S.-based international public relations firm.

Inter-American Foundation Mexico City, 1994, "Changes in legal regime for fisheries coops in Campeche and Sonora", "The Tuna Dispute: NAFTA and the United States embargo"

Greenpeace International, Amsterdam, the Netherlands, April 1991, Consultant, researched and wrote "Multilateral and Bilateral Assistance Programs and the Fisheries Sector of Developing Countries"

North American Congress on Latin America, Oakland, Calif., 1979, researcher/proofreader for Peter Baird and Ed McCaughan et al, Beyond the Border, Mexico & the U.S. Today, New York, NACLA

The Investigative Resource Center - Oakland, Calif., 1979, researcher, Project for Ben Bagdikian, School of Journalism, UCB: "The Owenership Structure of Major Media Corporations."

Foreign Languages

Spanish, native speaker, excellent in reading, and writing

French, fair speaker, good reading, rudimentary writing

Italian, fair speaker, good reading, good comprehension

Field Work

Peru, 1976, undergraduate research, assessment of government land reform program in the Cuzco Region

Mexico, 1979, undergraduate research, changes in agricultural development policy of the government

Kenya, 1980, evaluation of Group Ranch Schemes in Maasai Region of Oloitokitok, Kilamanjaro

Sudan, 1980, assessment of relief support for the Eritrean Relief during the war in Ethiopia

Venezuela, 1984, M.A. thesis research at CENDES (Centro de Estudios de Desarrollo, Caracas)-Petrodollar Circulation, the State, and the Agricultural Sector of Venezuela

Mexico, 1990, preliminary doctoral research on the tuna industry in Ensenada, Pismo Clam coops in San Quintin, and estuarine hydrology, Baja California's northwest coast

Mexico, 1991, 1992, Ph.D. thesis research at ITESM (Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey, Guaymas campus)- Structure and Change in the Commercial Fishing Industry, Ecological and Economic Problems

Technological Resources for Research and Learning

Library and Resource Center

Head librarian and designer/manager of a micro-computer lab (1990-1995) for the Environmental Science Policy & Management Resource Center, a multi-service facility for undergraduate students focused on environment, economic development, biology, ecology and energy. I managed the collections, directed acquisitions and subscriptions (books, serials, pamphlets, reports, tapes, listings) and developed job and internship listings, career referral.

Radio and Television

Cal State Dominguez Hills: Distant Learning: two lectures: "Marine Fisheries", 1998, "Millenarianism and the Apocalyptic Imagination", 1999, guest of Don Gautier, instructor

Cable TV: Viacom Public Access, San Francisco. 1984-1988. "Interview with Latin America," featured the art and talent of the Latino Community in the San Francisco Bay.  I served as host of the 30 minute taped live bilingual weekly show produced by Jorge Bustamante and Mariluz Agudelo

KPFA-FM Pacifica Radio, Berkeley, News Dept./Public Affairs: 1979-1980, reporter for 2 years on elections, international background stories on political and economic issues and Latin America, and speeches by news makers at the Commonwealth Club, San Francisco. I created and narrated a 30 minute show called "The Politics of Hunger" Thanksgiving, 1979 with Francis More Lappé, author of Food First, and other experts in the area of agriculture and hunger.

Community Service

Isla Vista Community Food Cooperative, Santa Barbara, 1975: Participated in the coop's business activities at all levels, membership committees, stocking, cash registers. Represented the coop at regional meetings in Southern California

Isla Vista Community Federal Credit Union, 1975, loan officer and policy committee. Evaluated risk and interviewed applicants for small loans offered to members

Santa Cruz Homeless movement: Assisted organizers and community activists before and after the 1989 earthquake to find shelter and to press local government to establish a program for food and housing for homeless people.

Larkin Street Youth Center, 1990, San Francisco. I served as interpreter and assistant for the medical and legal services of this nationally recognized center for runaway minors. I specialized in bilingual assistance and outreach for homeless and unemployed Central American teens and provided tutoring and legal aid.

Los Angeles Human Rights Delegation, Chiapas, Mexico, 1998: Joined Chicago area Congressional and Methodist Delegations to San Cristobal de las Casas, Polho, and other towns to examine refugee situation and human rights abuses by local, state, and federal authorities against Mayan Indian supporters of the Zapatista rebellion.

Cybernetics & Computing

Software: Apple Macintosh Network and server administration; word processing, spreadsheet, relational database: MS Office (Word, Excel, Powerpoint), FileMaker Pro; graphics & video: Photoshop (rudimentary), iMovie; html: Adobe GoLive; vector drawing, pdf and layout: Adobe Illustrator, Acrobat, PageMaker

Hardware: CPU Apple Macintosh upgrades, memory, harddrives, external peripherals; EtherNet Cat-5 cable networks, switched hubs, wireless Airport base stations, DSL and static IP services, standard TCP-IP interface and local area networking.