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Martin Gilens
Martin Gilens
Martin Gilens is Chair of the Department of Public Policy. He also is a Professor of Public Policy, Political Science, and Social Welfare at UCLA. His research examines representation, public opinion, and mass media, especially in relation to inequality and public policy.
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Gary Segura
Gary Segura
Gary M. Segura is the Dean of the Luskin School of Public Affairs at UCLA. His work focuses on issues of political representation and social cleavages, the domestic politics of wartime public opinion, and the politics of America’s growing Latino minority. Over the last 18 years, he has directed polling research that has completed over 100,000 interviews of Americans of all backgrounds on matters of political importance. He has briefed members of both the House and Senate as well as senior administration officials and appeared on National Public Radio, the “News Hour,” “Frontline,” “the CBS Evening News,” MSNBC, and numerous other outlets.
Kenya Covington
Kenya Covington
Kenya L. Covington conducts empirical research that examines social and economic inequality associated with the structural makeup of metropolitan areas. Her work suggests ways to better utilize social and urban policies that likely mitigate disparities in economic opportunity and well-being overall. Professor Covington teaches courses on Housing Policy, Introduction to Public Policy, Research Methods, Forces of Urbanization, Social Inequality and Urban Poverty. She joined the Public Policy faculty at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs in 2017.
Asiya Vickers
Asiya Vickers
Asiya Vickers, LMSW currently co-facilitates the Adaptive Leadership Fellowship at New York University’s Silver School of Social Work. As a dynamic speaker, Asiya ignites a fervor for change among those who hear her speak. Whether connecting to an intimate group of community organizers or speaking to a packed auditorium of students, Asiya will move you. She was selected to give the commencement speech at NYU Silver’s 2019 Convocation and is the former Pi Pi Chapter President for the Phi Alpha Honor Society. She is a member of the Adaptive Leadership Network, an international “community of practice” where leadership capacity is supported and developed.
Asiya has a heart for advocacy; she faithfully lobbied legislators in both Albany, N.Y and Washington D.C to secure increased funding on behalf of underrepresented students in Higher Education. Asiya spent time working closely and learning from local politicians, including Congresswoman Carolyn Maloney and Senior Policy Advisors from Mayor Deblasio’s Administration.
Asiya dedicated years to working and volunteering in the non-profit sector, serving diverse populations, providing a wide range of services throughout Manhattan and Long Island, NY. As the former Associate Director of a local non-profit organization, she worked alongside a dedicated team where she developed, organized, and implemented community programs that primarily served families and at-risk youth in East Harlem, New York.
Asiya earned a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Master of Social Work degree from New York University.
Cynthia Cortez
Cynthia Cortez
With a background in program design, implementation, and evaluation, Cynthia brings expertise in data-informed learning and action. Cynthia understands the process of teaching various stakeholders – board members, leadership, management, front line staff, and youth and families—on how to collect, think about, and use data effectively. Previously, she served at Bresee Foundation leading the organization’s first implementation evaluation assessing program impact using various data systems and tools. Prior to Bresee, Cynthia worked at multiple post-secondary institutions (University of Michigan-Flint, Occidental College, UC Berkeley) promoting college access and success for first generation, underrepresented students and their family members, a passion developed through her own experiences as a participant in college access and success programs.
Cynthia is committed to inclusive, community-led change and understanding it through data. Cynthia holds a MA from UCLA in Social Research Methodology and a BA from UC Berkeley in Peace and Conflict Studies with a focus on Human Rights and Sustainable Economic Development of Latin America. She currently serves as an active member in the American Evaluation Association and is a proud alumnus of UC Berkeley’s Incentive Awards Program, Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute, Project Evident, Education Pioneers, and Destination College Advising Corps.
Kevin De Leon
Kevin De Leon
Kevin de León is President pro Tempore Emeritus of the California State Senate. He is the son of a single immigrant mother with a third grade education who worked as a housekeeper and held other jobs to support her family. After becoming the first and only in his family to graduate from high school and college, Senator de León rose from the San Diego barrio of Logan Heights to lead the California State Senate, the first Latino to do so in more than a century.
As leader of the California State Senate, he led the nation to establish landmark gun-safety legislation, clean-energy mandates, climate and environmental protections, and immigration reforms. Most recently, Senator de León authored and passed Senate Bill 100 which legally mandates California, the figure largest economy in the world, to achieve 100 percent clean-energy by the year 2045. He is also the author of Senate Bill 54, the California Values Act, also known as the Sanctuary State Bill. Despite a lawsuit brought by former Attorney General Jeff Sessions and the Trump administration, a federal judge ruled that Senator de León’s California Values Act is constitutional and the law of the land in California. Senator de Leon established that largest expansion of retirement security since the Social Security Act with the newly established CalSavers program. Starting in 2019, every Californian without a defined benefit or defined contribution plan at their workplace will be automatically be enrolled in Senator de León’s retirement savings program.
Before entering into politics, Senator de León served the public as a community organizer, taught U.S.citizenship courses and English as a second language, and advocated for public schools. He graduated with honors from Pitzer College at the Claremont Colleges. Senator de León is a Rodel Fellow at The Aspen Institute and lecturer at UC Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and USC. He has one daughter and a dog named Popeye.
Regina Wallace-Jones
Regina Wallace-Jones
Regina Wallace-Jones is Senior Vice President, Products & Engineering at Mindbody, Inc. accountable for revenue, profit and customer satisfaction for global platform products and supporting product services. In this role, Regina has responsibility for $50M/year in revenue with a 3X growth plan over the next 3 years.
Regina has nearly 25 years of business leadership experience in multinational environments having lived in Asia and having held executive responsibilities in roles that span four continents (North America, South America, Europe and Asia). During her career, she has built a professional reputation in product excellence and innovation with keen engineering and operations sense. Regina leads with the highest level of integrity, energy, creativity and engagement. She is known to be an inspirational leader that establishes the highest bar of expectation while simultaneously being a supportive listener and a capable advisor.
Currently, Regina is Chair of the Board of Directors for the City of East Palo Alto (Mayor) and a member of the board for Women Who Code. Regina holds an Electrical Engineering degree from Stanford University and a postgraduate degree from the University of California, Los Angeles. She resides in East Palo Alto, CA.
Caroline Lee
Caroline Lee
Caroline is a career educator dedicated to empowering all students to realize their full career potential. She is passionate about & experienced in instructional design, career advising, and employer relations at higher education institutions. Caroline is always striving to improve and try new things to better herself and students.
Caroline received a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Sociology & Anthropology from Colgate University and a Master of Education (M.Ed) in School Counselor from University of Maryland
Michael Stoll
Michael Stoll
Michael A. Stoll is Professor of Public Policy in the Luskin School of Public Affairs. Dr. Stoll’s published work explores questions of poverty, labor markets, migration, and crime. His past work includes an examination of the labor market difficulties of less-skilled workers, in particular the role that racial residential segregation, job location patterns, job skill demands, employer discrimination, job competition, transportation, job information and criminal records play in limiting employment opportunities. His recent work examines the labor market consequences of mass incarceration and the benefits and costs of the prison boom.
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