Network
The President’s Equity and Change Commission Network is comprised of dedicated and knowledgeable staff, faculty and community member(s) that will support and engage with the Commission in a variety of ways inclusive of active membership on Commission committees as well as by serving as a consultancy group for ideas and feedback to benefit the campus community.
| Network Member | Department | Top 3 Constituencies |
|---|---|---|
| Joanna Barreras | Social Work | |
| Rebecca Bustamante | College of Education | College of Education; Educational Leadership; Associate Deans/Advising Leads (Academic Affairs); Data Fellows Planning Team |
| La Keysha Carter | Undergraduate Center for Undergraduate Advising | Black Faculty and Staff Community, University Advising, APC Union |
| Belinda Daughrity | Speech-Language Pathology/College of Health & Human Services | Black/African-American, Black church, and HBCU alumni. |
| Crystal Edwards | Africana Studies | Black/African-American, Black Faculty and Staff Association, LGBTQIA+ Students of Color |
| Araceli Esparza | English, College of Liberal Arts | First-generation students of color; Latina/o/x Students and Faculty; CSULB Faculty Parents and Caregivers Group |
| Malcolm Finney | Faculty Center for Professional Development | CSULB Faculty; Black Faculty & Staff Association; Africa Sub-Committee (Subcommittee of International Education Committee) |
| Anita Fitzgerald | Nursing | LGBTQ+ community; CHHS; CSULB students. |
| Lisa Fascia | Enrollment Services | Students, faculty, and staff |
| Jessica Flores | Enrollment Services | College of Education-Social and Cultural Analysis of Education, Academic Professionals of California, Latinx Faculty and Staff Association |
| Laura Gonzalez | Finance, College of Business | Academic Senate, Undergraduate Research Opportunity Program, GenExcel 1st Gen Mentoring program |
| Edward Garcia | Speech Language Pathology | Latinx faculty, LGBTQ empowerment, undocumented rights. |
| Deborah Hamm | Teacher Education, College of Education | |
| Miriam Henan-Watts | Family and Consumer Sciences, College of Health & Human Services | Age Friendly University, Equity issues with age, Disabilities and education |
| Christopher Knight | English Department, College of Liberal Arts | Black Faculty and Staff Association, CSULB Alum, College of Liberal Arts Staff |
| Barbara LeMaster | American Sign Language Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts | American Sign Language Linguistics and Deaf Cultures (ASLD), Departments of Anthropology and Linguistics, College of Liberal Arts |
| Eduardo Leyva | Educational Opportunity Program | Latinx Faculty and Staff Association; Student Financial Services; College of Education - Educational Leadership First-generation students, Latinx students, staff and faculty, Basic Needs and Cal Fresh Outreach participants Academic Advisors, College of Health & Human Services leadership, CSULB Staff |
| Angela Locks | Academic Affairs and College of Education | |
| Dennis López | English Department, College of Liberal Arts | First-generation working-class students of color, College of Liberal Arts staff and faculty, and the California Faculty Association. |
| Heather Macias | Teacher Education | |
| Alfredo Macias | Forty-Niner Shops | Forty-niner Shops Inc, Family Consumer Sciences, Housing |
| Oscar Navarro | Teacher Education & Liberal Studies | First-Generation Students of Color, Latinx Faculty Staff Association, and future educators of Color |
| Anna Nazarian-Peters | Student Life Development | Student Leaders, Native American Students and Community Members, Division of Student Affairs |
| Mary Nguyen | Bob Murphy Access Center | |
| Rico Ovalles | Bookstore Services and 49er Shops | LGBT+, VetNet Ally, College of Business (alumni) |
| Joshua Palkki | Music Education, College of the Arts | LGBTQIA+ Persons, First-Generation College Students, College of Education Caminos Project (Culturally Responsive Pedagogy) |
| Kara Perkins | Budget & Administration | Division of Admin & Finance, Campus wide budget/fiscal staff, Resource Planning Process/Campus Fiscal Committees. |
| Aubrey Priest | Antelope Valley Engineering | Diversity and Inclusion Leadership, International Interdisciplinary Honor Society-Alpha Iota Sigma, CSULB Engineering |
| Tianjiao Qiu | Marketing | |
| Hector Jose Infante Ruiz | Strategic Communications | |
| Cecilia Smalls Griswold | Teacher Education, College of Education | College of Education: Students, Faculty and Staff |
| Norma Salcedo | Dream Success Center | Division of Student Affairs, For Undocumented Empowered Leaders (FUEL), Latinx Student Union |
| Kris Slowinski | science faculty, academic administrators and advisors, first generation Americans at CSULB | |
| Norma Stein | Retired, SVP Human Resources | The Jewish community, The underserved and marginalized in Long Beach and West Orange County and the surrounding communities, Individuals, families, and children in need of support services, including counseling, support groups, care management for older adults, court-referred counseling, and emergency financial assistance. |
| Marita Swanson | Human Resources Management and DAF | |
| Alyssa Torres | Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum | Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum |
| Rene Trevino | English, College of Liberal Arts | College of Liberal Arts, Helena María Viramontes Annual Lecture in Latina/o Literature, American Literature Association |
| Patricia Trinidad | Health Science, College of Health & Human Services | Interns at Center for Latino Community Health, Evaluation, Leadership, and Training, and faculty and staff at Center for Health Equity Research. |
| Kelsey Vidic | Department of Dance, College of the Arts | Beach Guide, Los Angeles community member, LGBTIAQ+ally |
| Kellie Walters | Kinesiology, College of Health & Human Services | CSULB Faculty Parents and Caregivers Group, College of Health and Human Services, Department of Kinesiology |
| Kimberly Walters | International Studies, College of Liberal Arts | |
| Majid Zahedi | 49er Shops |
