Maria T. Pacho was born and raised in Boyle Heights in the City of Los Angeles. Currently, she is the Marketing and Public Relations point person for St. Francis Medical Center Earn Respect Program. She has taught at California State University, Long Beach in the Chicano and Latino Studies Department since the Fall of 1999. Her class entitled Latina/o Health Status and Health Care Access is an interdisciplinary course on the health status and access issue affecting Latino sub-populations in the US. She is a part time professor at Charles Drew University School of Medicine and Science teaching Introduction to Public Health. In 2000, Maria was elected Commission President for the El Pueblo de Los Angeles Historical Monument Authority Commission also known as Olvera Street/Placita Olvera. She is actively working on capital projects such as the restoration of the Siqueros Mural. Maria is an active board member for the Weingart East Los Angeles YMCA.

 Prof. Pacho graduated from California State University, Long Beach in May of 1993 with a Bachelor of Arts in Mexican American Studies. She continued her graduated education at Loma Linda University, School of Public Health with a Master of Public Health, emphases in Community Health Promotion/Education and Administration.

 Prof. Pacho is working on a manuscript on Latina Health "Cancer Screening and Risk Reduction for Latina Women in Los Angeles County," Loma Linda University Culminating Activity

Research Papers/Reports

• Comprehensive Care or Episodic Care? Health Care services for the Undocumented Latino Population in California
• Health Care Access to a Primary Care Provider for the Undocumented Latino in the State of California
• Effects of Acculturation on Prenatal Care Behaviors and Birth Outcomes in the First and Second Generation Mexican Women.
• Latinos View on Proposition 187 and the Catholic Church

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