Dr. Jaime Chahin - Principal Investigator, Dean, College of Applied Arts at Southwest Texas State University
Jaime Chahin, Dean of the College of Applied Arts, at Southwest Texas State University, has over twenty years of varied experience in education.  During the last ten years he has been an administrator and holds a teaching appointment at Southwest Texas State University.  Prior to that, Dr. Chahin was a Senior Policy Analyst for the Select Committee for Higher Education in Texas which reported its findings to the legislature in 1987.  From 1980 to 1986, Dr. Chahin was Dean of Student Personnel Services and Research at Texas Southmost College in Brownsville, Texas.  In addition, he was an instructor in the Education Department at University of Texas at Brownsville. Dr. Chahin, a 1971 graduate of Eagle Pass High School, received his Ph.D. in Education Administration in 1977 and his M.A. in 1975 in Administration and Policy from the University of Michigan.  His B.A. degree in Sociology and Political Science was awarded in 1974 from Texas A & I University.  He completed Post Doctoral work in Higher Education Management in 1980 and 1983 at Harvard University.  In 1996, he was awarded a fellowship to attend the Salzburg Seminar in Austria to study Sustainable Communities.
	Blandina Cardenas- Associate Professor of Educational Leadership at University of Texas at San Antonio
Blandina Cardenas is the chairperson of the Board of Trustees of the Educational Testing Service, a founding member of the Board of the Fundacion Solidaridad Mexicana Americana, a member of the Board of the American Association of Higher Education, and a leader of numerous state and local organizations in education, voting rights, public service, leadership development and children's concerns. From 1989 to 1992, she served as Director of the Southwest Center on Values, Achievement and  Community in Education, affiliated with the LBJ Institute at Southwest Texas State University.  She came to SWT after three years as Director of the Office of Minorities in Higher Education at the American Council on Education.  In January of 1993, she completed her second six-year term as a member of the United States Commission on Civil Rights. A native Texan, Dr. Cardenas received her Bachelor of Journalism Degree from the University of Texas at Austin and her Doctorate in Education Administration from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. In December of 1991, she was inducted in to the "Orden del Aguila Azteca" the highest honor given by the Government of Mexico to a non-citizen of that country.
	Jim Estrada- President & CEO of Estrada Communications Group, Inc.
Jim Estrada is President and Chief Executive Officer of Estrada Communications Group, Inc. (ECG).  Specializing in the U.S. Hispanic market-ECG is recognized as one of the top corporate and marketing communications agencies in the nation. Estrada is a pioneer in ethnic marketing, with over 30 years of corporate marketing and community relations experience.  He has provided professional consultation in Hispanic marketing to many of the top corporations and community organizations in the country. Prior to founding ECG, he was a News Reporter and Public Affairs Director for the ABC television affiliate in San Diego, CA.-he continued his television career in documentary production for McGraw-Hill Broadcasting in New York.  He then moved to McDonald's Corporation as Western Region Advertising/Public Relations Manager.  Estrada served as Manager of Corporate Relations at Anheuser-Busch Companies and was promoted to National Hispanic Brand Marketing for Anheuser-Busch in St. Louis, MO. Estrada majored in Journalism at San Diego State University and has completed advanced studies at Boston College's Center for Corporate Community Relations.  He is the recipient of many awards and honors, among them: Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, Washington, D.C.; Hispanic Women's Network of Texas; Mexican-American Foundation, California; Texas Association of Mexican-American Chambers of Commerce; and the Texas House of Representatives.
	Hector Galan- President/Director of Galan Productions, Inc.
Nationally recognized documentarian, Hector Galan, has been involved in television for over twenty years.  Starting out as a camera operator in his hometown of San Angelo, Texas, he has since been involved in every aspect of television production, now contributing programs to national networks. A promotion to directing news at an NBC affiliate in Lubbock, Texas in 1975 would mark the beginning of his interest in news and public affairs.  From news, he moved to Public Television where he began producing and directing public affairs and cultural programming.  He entered into national documentary programming in 1980 when he became senior producer for the nationally acclaimed "Checking it Out" series, a documentary news magazine for Hispanic teenagers.  Galan also completed a half-hour documentary "The End of the Race," about the Pueblo Indian cross-country runners of New Mexico.  In 1992, while at Warner-Amex in Dallas, Galan was instrumental in producing "Qube" interactive cable programming.  This was followed by his selection as a staff producer for the award-winning, provocative "Frontline" series at WGBH-TV, Boston, a forum for news and public affairs programming. Since reaching the national level, he has worked non-stop producing and directing a variety of long-form documentaries and specials, earning him awards from The American Film and Video Festival, National Educational Film and Video Festival, the New York International Film Festival, and many others. In 1996, Galan was invited to a private screening of his most recent documentary at the White House for President Clinton.  In 1997, he received the Most Outstanding Alumni Award from Texas Tech University.
	Jorge Chapa- Director of the Department of Latino Studies at Indiana University at Bloomington
Dr. Chapa is on leave from his position as Associate Professor of Public Affairs at the Lyndon B. Johnson School, University of Texas, Austin.  Professor Chapa is a demographic specialist whose teaching and research interests include: population perspectives on policy analysis, race relations, minorities in higher education, and applied demographic analysis.  His areas of expertise include statistics, demography, economic development, and information systems for data processing and analysis.  Among his publications are a co-authored book, The Burden of Support, which analyzes the social, economic, and political consequences of ethnic population trends in California.  Chapa has authored numerous journal articles, reports and technical papers.  The main focus of his research is Hispanic population characteristics and growth, and implications of these on different aspects of U.S. social policy. Chapa previously served as Associate Dean at U.T. Austin, Associate Dean of the Office of Graduate Studies, and Director of the Graduate Opportunity Program (GOP).  He has also been responsible for the recruitment and retention of minority students in all of U.T. Austin's graduate and professional programs, except for the School of Law.
	Arturo Madrid- Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University
Arturo Madrid is the Norine R. and T. Frank Murchison Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Trinity University, a position he has held since 1993, and a 1996 recipient of the Charles Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  From 1984 to 1993, he served as the founding president of the Tomas Rivera Center, a national center for policy studies on Hispanic issues affiliated with the Claremont Graduate School (California) and Trinity University (Texas).  From 1975 to 1980, he was the founding president of the National Chicano Council for Higher Education. Dr. Madrid holds a B.A. with honors from the University of New Mexico, where he was elected to Phi Kappa Phi, the national scholarship society.  Upon graduation, he was awarded a prestigious Woodrow Wilson Fellowship to pursue graduate studies in Hispanic Languages and Literatures at UCLA.  Since completing his doctorate, Arturo Madrid has held academic and administrative appointments at Dartmouth College, the University of California, San Diego, and the University of Minnesota. Madrid is an elected fellow of the Council of Foreign Relations, the nation's premier foreign policy association, and of the National Academy for Public Administration, which honors persons with distinguished records in public administration.  He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the A.H. Belo Corporation (Texas), the Center for Southwestern Studies (SMU), the Intercultural Research Development Association (San Antonio), the Tandy Technology Scholars Program, the San Antonio Museum of Art, and the Arte Público Press.
	Julissa Ozuna- Grant Administrative Assistant at Southwest Texas State University
Julissa Ozuna, a native of Progreso, Texas, is currently the Grant Administrative Assistant for the "Children of the Colonias" project that was funded to Southwest Texas State University (SWT) by the W.K. Kellogg Foundation.  She completed her undergraduate studies in August 1998, from SWT and earned a Bachelor of Business Administration with an emphasis in Management.  Julissa is currently working on her Master of Accounting (MAcy). Julissa was nominated for The Who's Who Among American College Students throughout her four years of college.  She was the Treasurer of the Hispanic Business Student Association and member of the National Hispanic Business Conference in Austin, Texas, in which she was awarded the Member of the Year award in 1997.  She was also a member of the American Marketing Association and the Ballet Folklorico Ocotochli de SWT. While she attended SWT, Julissa was a mentor to local high school students.  She also assisted high school students, from different surrounding counties, in postsecondary institutions, to apply for college admission, financial aid, and scholarships to attend higher education institutions.
	Manuel Piña, Jr. - Special Projects Director, The Agricultural Program at Texas A&M University System
Manuel was born and reared on his family farm in McCulloch County, Texas.  For twenty-five years, he has made education and evaluation related to international agriculture research and rural development, along with leadership development programming and external grants managment, his career and expertise.  He has developed, carried out, and evaluated formal and non-formal educational programs in and outside the U.S. and has special interest in facilitating that the U.S. educational system is responsive and sensitive to needs of Hispanic youth. His present position is President and CEO of Views Unlimited, Inc., which specializes in assisting non-profit organizations in developing and funding, evaluating and managing programs and projects.  He is also an Associate Professor of the Department of Agricultural Education at Texas A&M University College Station, Texas.  Piña teaches graduate courses and conducts research in international development.  He is the Project Director for three Texas A&M University System-wide initiatives to promote adjustments in the higher education system of the state, and to ensure its relevancy in the 21st century. His education includes: the Graduate School of Business Administration (Program for Management Development), Harvard University, February - May 1985; Ph.D. Adult Education (Extension), Texas A&M University, 1978, thesis "Teaching Skills Essential for Subject-Matter Specialists of the Texas Agricultural Extension Service, by Program Areas"; M.S. Educational Administration, Texas A&M University, 1974, thesis "Factors Which Affect Decision Making of Public Information Radio Tape Service by Spanish-Language Broadcasters in Texas"; B.S. Agricultural Education, Texas A&M University, 1968; B.S. Agricultural Journalism, Texas A&M University, 1968.
	Alan Pogue- Photographer for Las Colonias Project
Alan Pogue began his photographic documentarian career in 1968, while as an Army chaplainís assistant and a combat medic in Vietnam.  His interest in the photographic medium and social justice were merged there, never to be separated in the decades to come. Alan studied philosophy as an undergraduate at the University of Texas at Austin during 1969 to 1971.  At the same time, he became staff photographer for The Rag, an anti-war, civil rights, gender and sexual orientation equality advocate which belonged to a national network of such publications.  In 1972, Alan became a contributing photographer for the Texas Observer, a bi-weekly political and literary journal.  He became the staff photographer and in 1997, was the recipient of its first Tyrants Foe Award. 1975 marked the beginning of his two largest bodies of work, farmworkers and prisoners.  He worked with both The Texas Farmworkers and the United Farm Workers.  Alan provided still photography and videography for C.U.R.E., a national prison reform group, formed in Texas.  Peoples History in Texas asked for Alanís assistance in making "Women in Texas Labor: An Oral History, 1930 to 1950." He did all of the still photography and videography for the length of the project from 1976 to 1979, which then became a full length film, video, and book. In 1980, a group of prominent Austin artists invited Alan to have his first major solo exhibition, at the Bois DíArc Gallery, "Photographs: Alan Pogue." In 1983, The Center for Mexican-American Studies at the University of Texas sponsored the production of a portfolio of Alanís original prints, "Agricultural Workers of the Rio Grande/Rio Bravo Valley," which were limited editions.  In 1983, the Texas Institute of Letters selected Alan for the Dobie/Paisano Award, a six month residency at the J. Frank Dobie Ranch.  In 1984, attorneys for the NAACP hired Alan to document inhumane prison conditions for use by plaintiffs in the historic "Ruiz vs. Estelle" prison reform case, and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) hired Alan to document the inequality of educational opportunity in Texas for the landmark "Edgewood vs. Kirby" school funding case. In 1988, the National Center for Farmworker Health commissioned Alan to produce a national photographic survey of farmworker conditions and an exhibition, "Americaís Migrant Farmworkers," which is still touring the country.  The U.S. Public Health Service gave Alan the "Directorís Special Citation" award for this exhibit.  In 1997, the Austin American-Statesman and The Austin Chronicle named Alan the best photographer, documentarian, photojournalist, and artist in Austin.  A complete list of Alan's publications, awards, and exhibitions are available on request.
	Ricardo Romo- President - University of Texas at San Antonio
Ricardo Romo, a native of San Antonio, Texas, completed his undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and earned his doctorate in History at the University of California, Los Angeles.  From 1974 to 1979, Professor Romo taught at the University of California at San Diego; he then began teaching in the Department of History at the University of Texas at Austin, in 1980.  He has served as Vice President and Director of the Texas office of the Tomas Rivera Center, a Latino public policy institute (1988-93), a Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Studies at Stanford University (1989-90) and a Chancellor's Distinguished Lecturer at the University of California, Berkeley (1985).  He is currently Vice Provost in the Office of the Executive Vice President and Provost at the University of Texas at Austin and a member of the Department of History. Professor Romo's most recent essay, "The Civic and Political Incorporation of Mexican Americans: A Historical Perspective," is forthcoming in Immigration, Race and Ethnicity in America, edited by Silvia Pedraza and Ruben G. Rumbaut; Wadsworth Press.  His book, East Los Angeles: History of a Barrio, a University of Texas publication, recently went into its seventh printing.  He is also co-author of The Mexican American Experience: An Interdis-ciplinary Anthology.  His name appears in the International Authors and Writers Who's Who, Contemporary Authors, Who's Who in Hispanic America and Who's Who in American Education.
	Galen Lucia Dickey - Grant Research Specialist at Southwest Texas State University
Galen Lucia Dickey graduated from the University of Texas at Austin and holds a Masters degree in Massachusetts School of Public Health. She has worked in community health edu-cation for the past 8 years as a health educator and researcher. Her research interests focus on health issues of marginal-ized populations. Galen presented a paper on Exposure Injury and Death in Gallup, New Mexico at the Annual Meeting of the American Public Health Association in 1995. She also presented Las Colonias Project Team Integrated Violence Prevention in a Middle School Health Curriculum at the same meeting. Most recently, she presented findings from a focus group of Hispanic colorectal cancer patients and their families at the conference for the National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations. She spent six months in Mexico studying methods of com-munity organization and social change. While in Mexico, she also learned about the traditional use of herbs from a group of promotoraspracticing popular medicine in Nueva Rosita, Coahuila.
	Sandra Peralta- Grant Research Specialist at Southwest Texas State University
Sandra Peralta, a native of El Paso, Texas, and a business major graduate from the University of Texas at El Paso. Sandra has extensive experience in statistical and research analysis coupled with computer programming knowledge. The majority of her work experience has been with the federal government under the Department of Defense. Sandra has chaired and managed numerous programs within her federal working career. She chaired the Hispanic Employment Committee Program for almost 4 years; served as the Savings Bond Campaign Manager and Combined Federal Campaign Manager. In managing these programs she serviced over 25,000 federal civilian employees and military soldiers. Sandra is active in her community. She is a Mexican American Legal Defense and Education Fund (MALDEF) leader-ship development graduate. She is a past member of the National Image and Federal Managers Association. She currently serves as the secretary of Youth Advocates, of El Paso Incorporated.
	Cristina Salinas- Grant Research Assistant at Southwest Texas State University
Cristina Salinas is conducting research in the Rio Grande Valley and in Austin for the Children of Las Colonias project. Cristina was appointed jointly by Dr. Jaime Chahin and Mr. Hector Galán. Cristina is a native of Elsa, Texas and the daughter of Armando and Delia Salinas. After graduating from Edcouch-Elsa High School in 1993, she continued her education at the University of Texas at Austin, where she received a bachelor of arts degree with high honors in history. Her future plans include studying immigration history in graduate school.

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