The National Empowering Students Advisory Board
Robert Alanez
Senior Partner
Milagro Communications Group
Dr. Juan Andrade, Jr.
President
United States Hispanic Leadership Institute
Manuel Baca, PhD
Vice President
California Community Colleges Board of Governors
Nora de Hoyos Comstock, Ph.D. President
Las Comadres para las Americas
Maria Contreras-Sweet
Administrator
Small Business Administration
Jorge Corralejo
Dr. Antonio Flores
Executive Director
Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities
Delia Garcia
Sr Liaison, Office of Minority Community Outreach, National Education Association
Dr. Maggie George
President
Diné College, Navajo
Frank D. Gomez
Public Affairs Executive
Educational Testing Service
Ignacio Gomez
Award winning Artist
José Gonzalez
Site Mngr. DC-MD-VA, Thomas Shortman Training Fund, SEIU Local 32BJ Training Fund
Myriam Grajales Hall
Manager for the University of California for News & Information Outreach in Spanish
Jorge Haynes
Director of External Relations
California State University System
Kahseuss Jackson MBA
Economic Development Coordinator Confederated Tribes of the Warm Springs Reservation of Oregon
Roy Jasso
Senior Vice President
Wells Fargo Bank
Consuelo Castillo Kickbusch Founder
Educational Achievement Services
Hank Lacayo
State President
Congress of California Seniors
Dr. David P. López
President
National Hispanic University
Josefina López
Award winning Author & Playwright
Alma Martínez
Assistant Professor
Dept. of Theatre & Dance,
Pomona College
Enrique G. Murillo, Jr., PhD
Professor of Education
Cal State University, San Bernardino
Ambassador Julian Nava, PhD Los Angeles Unified School District Board Member (retired)
Esther Novak
CEO, Vanguard Communications
Edward James Olmos
Actor, Director, & Activist
Ed Peña
Past LULAC Nat’l President
Jeff Penichet
President
Bilingual Educational Services
Mayda Prego, Sr.
Counsel, Chevron Africa & Latin America; President, Nat’l Hispanic
Bar Foundation
Maria Quezada
Project 2INSPIRE Director,
California Association for Bilingual Education
Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez, Ph.D.
Journalism Prof., UT School of Journalism; VOCES Oral History Project Director
Francisco C. Rodriguez, Ph.D. Chancellor
Los Angeles Community College District
Tim Ryan, EthnoTech LLC, Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation, Montana
Ernest L. Stevens, Jr.,
Chair, National Indian Gaming
Association, Oneida Tribe of Indians of Wisconsin
Andres Tobar
U. S. Dept. of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education (retired)
Congressman Esteban Torres (retired)
Jesse Torres
CEO, Pan American Bank
John Valdez
Multicultural Studies Professor, Palomar College
Martin Valdez
Vice President, Libreria del Pueblo
Burton Warrington
CEO, Prairie Band LLC
Menominee, Potawtomi, & Ho-Chunk Nations
Kirk Whisler
Publisher
Latino Print Network & WPR Books
Joe Williams, Jr
Commissioner, The Saxman Village of the Chilkat Tribe in Southeast Alaska
Dr. Lea Ybarra
Executive Director, Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth
Gabriel Yazzie,
Department Manager
Kayenta Township, Navajo