Weglyn Committee Members

Jose M. Aguilar Hernandez

 

José M. Aguilar-Hernández is an Assistant Professor of Ethnic and Women’s Studies in the College of Education and Integrative Studies at Cal Poly Pomona.  Aguilar-Hernández is the proud son of immigrant farmworkers from Zacatecas, México. He grew up in the Ventura County and transferred from Moorpark Community College to UCLA where he earned a B.A. in Chicana/o Studies and History.

Aguilar-Hernández earned a M.A. in Latin American Studies and a Ph.D. in Education from UCLA.  His dissertation, Si Se Pudo!: A Critical Race History of the Movements for Chicana and Chicano Studies at UCLA, 1990-1993, is about the inception (and more) of the Chicana/o Studies Departmentalization process at UCLA.  During his five years as a doctoral student Aguilar-Hernández served as a Teaching Fellow and Lecturer in the UCLA César E. Chávez Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies and additionally, he also taught courses in Chicana/o Studies at California State University, Northridge and CalState LA.

Aguilar-Hernández’ research publications and teaching interests include social movements, educational history, pedagogy, critical race theory, historical methods, and gender and sexuality.

Rickey Badua

Dr. Rickey Badua is Director of Bands and Assistant Professor of Music at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona where he conducts the Wind Ensemble, Symphonic Winds, Concert Band, teaches beginning & instrumental conducting, and oversees all aspects of the wind studies program. His scholarly research involves championing new wind band repertoire and studying the globalization of the wind band medium. Dr. Badua’s most current research project involves exploring the wind band developments of Australia and Asia.

Dr. Badua received his Bachelor of Music Education and Master of Arts in Teaching degree from the University of Puget Sound, where he studied conducting with Robert Taylor, he received his Doctor of Musical Arts in Wind Conducting degree from the University of Georgia where he studied with John P. Lynch.

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Brianne A. Dávila

 

Brianne A. Dávila is an Assistant Professor of Sociology in the Department of Psychology and Sociology at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of sociology of education, Latina/o sociology, and social inequality.  Dr. Dávila also has research experience as an applied sociologist having previously worked for the Los Angeles Unified School District and the Center for Urban Education at the University of Southern California.

Through her teaching, research, and service, Dr. Dávila strives to demonstrate a commitment to issues of educational access and equity, community-based learning, and social justice.  She earned her doctorate in Sociology and Feminist Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has a master’s from the same program and received a bachelor’s in Sociology with a Spanish minor from Pitzer College in Claremont, CA.  Outside of the classroom and halls of the university, Dr. Dávila enjoys spending time with her many family members, playing and reading with her son, going on walks in nature, and traveling.

Winny Dong

 

Dr. Winny Dong is a Professor in Chemical and Materials Engineering.  Since joining Cal Poly Pomona in 2000, Winny has focused her efforts on creating an environment where all faculty and students can develop their strengths.  She is proud to see that some of these efforts have resulted in an improved campus climate and increased access to high-quality education for all students.

Winny is dedicated to serving the diverse population of Cal Poly Pomona and worked to bring various grants, totaling over $13 million, to increase participation by under-represented groups in science and engineering.

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Leticia Guzman Scott

 

 

Leticia Guzman Scott serves as the Executive Director of Student Support and Equity Programs. In this role, she leads a team of professionals who provide services for over 2,500 students in the Educational Opportunity Program (EOP), Renaissance Scholars Program, Summer Bridge, Transfer Bridge, Veterans Resource Center, and the Undeclared Student Program. Ms. Guzman Scott has 28 years of professional experience in Student Affairs, predominantly in student equity programs that serve first-generation, low-income, under-represented populations. She has also served as the Associate Director, Assistant Director, Coordinator of EOP Admissions and Enrollment Services, and a few more positions in Student Support and Equity Programs at Cal Poly Pomona. She has a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration with an emphasis in Management and Human Resources as well as her Masters of Business Administration (MBA) with an emphasis on Training and Education from Cal Poly Pomona. Ms. Guzman Scott is an EOP alumna and credits the EOP program for helping to successfully lay the foundation of her educational career.

 

Alvaro Huerta

 

Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D., holds a joint faculty appointment in Urban & Region Planning (URP) and Ethnic & Women’s Studies (EWS) at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. As an interdisciplinary scholar, Dr. Huerta teaches and conducts research on the intersecting domains of community & economic development, Chicana/o & Latina/o studies, immigration & Mexican diaspora, social movements, social networks and the informal economy. Among other scholarly publications, he’s the author of the book Reframing the Latino Immigration Debate: Towards a Humanistic Paradigm. While born in the U.S., he was raised in a Mexican slum (Colonia Libertad in Tijuana, Baja California) and violent U.S. barrio (Ramona Gardens housing project or Big Hazard projects in Boyle Heights). He holds a Ph.D. in city and regional planning from UC Berkeley—one of the first Chicanas/os to do so. He also holds an M.A. in urban planning and a B.A. in history from UCLA.

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Thavery Lay-Bounpraseuth

 

Thavery Lay-Bounpraseuth has been in the field of student affairs for 20 years; she currently serves as the Coordinator for the Asian & Pacific Islander Student Center at Cal Poly Pomona. Over the six years span as the coordinator, Thavery has collaborated amongst various faculty and staff across disciplines in hosting diverse educational programs and events in educating the campus community on issues of diversity and social justice. Thavery also serves as the advisor to numerous student organizations, trains, and mentors on a variety of student engagement topics such as leadership, programming, etc.

Furthermore, Thavery serves as a steering committee on the California State University (CSU) Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) Initiative. Through her leadership with the CSU AAPI Initiative, she has partnered and built lasting relationships with various departments on campus as well as sister CSU campuses such as Dominguez Hills, Los Angeles, Long Beach, Fullerton, and others in training future AAPI student leaders. In connection to the AAPI Initiative, Thavery founded the Asian & Pacific Islander Peer Mentor Program (API PMP) in the spring of 2017; this program was created to serve CCP’s underserved student (Southeast Asian & Pacific Islander) in their transition and retention of first-year first time and first-year transfer students.

Thavery is passionate about working with first-generation college students in guiding, mentoring, supporting student success. She is constantly seeking new ways to find much-needed resources and services to provide students with access to resources and skills to be successful college students. She is also passionate about social justice issues and works hard to collaborate with like-minded folks to initiate and to act upon issues for communities and of people whose voices are often silenced.

She is a proud product of the CSU system and earned her bachelor’s degree in Human Services from California State University, Fullerton; and went on to earn her Masters’ degree in Counseling with an emphasis in Student Development in Higher Education (SDHE) from California State University, Long Beach.

On a personal note, Thavery enjoys spending time with her family, reading, watching Netflix, and most of all traveling. During her lifetime, she hopes to retire early and visit as many countries as her abled body, mind, and spirit will allow.

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Alejandro Morales

Dr. Alejandro Morales is an associate professor of Psychology in the joint department of Psychology and Sociology at the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona. He conducts qualitative, quantitative, and mixed methods studies in understanding the psycho-social-cultural mechanisms of adjustment in Latino immigrant families with children who serve as translators and interpreters (i.e., language brokers). His research also focuses on identifying the processes that facilitate the psychological wellbeing of Latino gay men. He teaches courses on abnormal psychology, basic counseling skills, intimate relationships, human sexuality, and couple's therapy. He received his PhD and MA in Counseling Psychology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, and his BA in Psychology from the California State University, Dominguez Hills.

 

Anjana Narayan

 

Anjana Narayan is an Associate Professor of Sociology at California State Polytechnic University Pomona. She is the co-author of Living our Religions: Hindu and Muslim Asian American Women Narrate their Experiences (2009) and the co-editor of Research Beyond Borders: Interdisciplinary Reflections (2011). She is currently associated with an international and interdisciplinary collaborative research network to advance the study of lived religions and gender in relation to Hinduism and Islam.

 

Anthony Ocampo

 

Anthony Ocampo, Ph.D., is a scholar and writer who focuses on race, immigration, and LGBTQ issues. He is Assistant Professor of Sociology at Cal Poly Pomona and a Ford Foundation Fellow. He is the author of The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race, recently featured on NPR Morning Edition. Dr. Ocampo is currently working on his second book, Brown and Gay in LA, which chronicles the lives of gay men of color from immigrant families.

A native Los Angeleno, Dr. Ocampo is a graduate of Stanford University (BA 2003, MA 2004) and UCLA (MA 2006, PhD 2011).

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Jocelyn A Pacleb 

 

Dr. Jocelyn A. Pacleb earned her Ph.D. and M.A. in Comparative Culture from the University of California, Irvine. She earned her B.A. in Ethnic Studies and in Psychology at UC San Diego. She teaches courses on contemporary Asian Pacific Islanders, Filipina/o Americans, militarism, race and ethnicity, gender, labor, racial and ethnic representations in film, immigration, and community formation. Her current work examines the enlistment of non-U.S. citizens in the U.S. armed services and the emergence of communities near U.S. military bases in Southern California. Among her teaching and academic accomplishments, Dr. Pacleb is a Fulbright Hays Group Project Abroad Scholar. Before joining EWS at Cal Poly Pomona, Dr. Pacleb taught at Washington State University, CSU Fullerton, and UC Irvine.

Lise-Helene Smith

 

Lise-Hélène Smith is Associate Professor of World Literature and Graduate Coordinator at Cal Poly Pomona in Pomona, CA. She received her doctorate in Comparative Literature from UC Davis in 2005.  Her research interests include exile, hybridity, and migration as linked to race and gender in the Southeast Asian diaspora, as well as in Francophone and colonial/postcolonial literatures. She has co-edited a collection of essays titled Reflections: Research Beyond Borders on conducting research abroad in a culturally and ethically sensitive manner. This interdisciplinary book sets out to reassess Western-based research practices and presents self-reflexive narratives on research experiences around the globe.

Bernardo Solano

 

A graduate of the Yale School of Drama, Mr. Solano is a recipient of the NEA/TCG Theatre Residency Program for Playwrights, two Fulbright Awards, McKnight Fellowship, NEA and Rockefeller grants, as well as an AT&T OnStage and two Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest grants.

Productions include:

• NUEVO CALIFORNIA at San Diego Repertory Theatre (winner of San Diego Critics Circle’s Outstanding New Play of 2004)
• THE UPPER ROOM (act two of CROSSINGS) at Cornerstone Theater—nominated for Los Angeles Ovation Award Best New Play of 2001-02 season
• GROWING HOME at Cornerstone Theater/CSU Summer Arts
• FACE TO FACE at Cincinnati Playhouse in the Park
• WILDLIFE at the Powerhouse Theatre (L.A.)
• ENTRIES at Disney Hall’s REDCAT Theatre with La Plaza de la Raza
• At George Street Playhouse I HATE at Naked Angels (NYC) and is part of USA Network’s Emmy-nominated special “It Just Takes One”.
• LOS FAUSTINOS at Cornerstone Theate
• EL GRECO, an opera (librettist), at INTAR Theatre in NYC and broadcast by NPR.
• BUENAVISTA at Mixed Blood Theatre
• JUNGLE TOONS at Cucaracha Theatre (NYC)
• DOMINION at Borderlands Theater, AZ. and Mark Taper Forum’s New Work Festiva
• HOMIES & POPZ at L.A. Opera
• BUS STOP JOURNALS at Cal Poly Pomona & University of Zimbabwe
• MANZANITA: A VIOLENT AFFAIR at the Frida Kahlo Theatre (L.A.)
• ZORRO at TheatreWorks (CO),
• SPEAK SPANISH TO ME at Actors Theatre of Phoenix, lost at Company of Angels (L.A.),
• LANGSTON & NICOLAS at Stella Adler (L.A.) by Towne Street Theater.

Mr. Solano is an associate artist of Cornerstone Theater, and has received three Fulbright Awards, the most recent to teach and direct in Bogota, Colombia. 

 

Jessie Vallejo

 

 

Dr. Jessie M. Vallejo is currently an Assistant Professor of Ethnomusicology and Director or Mariachi Ensembles in Cal Poly Pomona’s Music Department. Her research focuses on a hemispheric approach to Amerindian studies, Indigenous cultural-linguistic revitalization projects, and mariachi music. Dr. Vallejo co-produced, annotated, and provided photography for Smithsonian Folkways’ 2013 release ¡Así Kotama!: The Flutes of Otavalo, Ecuador. She has also published in the Smithsonian Magazine, Smithsonian Folklife Magazine, Ethnomusicology Forum journal, and the Ethnomusicologists’ Cookbook Volume II. Dr. Vallejo has been invited to speak on her research at local, national, and international events across California and the United States, as well as in Bangkok (Thailand), Limerick (Ireland), Guayaquil (Ecuador), Astana (Kazakhstan), St. John’s (Newfoundland, Canada), Salto (Uruguay), La Habana (Cuba), and Mexico City. In addition to her research and teaching, Jessie is an active freelance violinist in the Los Angeles area, and she enjoys taking public transit and speaking at BUSted storytelling slams. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA’s Ethnomusicology Department in 2014.