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Charles J. Mendoza is the Chairman of NHCOA’s Board of Directors. A former criminal defense attorney, Dr. Mendoza has served in numerous leadership positions both nationally and in his home state of Georgia. Included in his long record of public service are membership on the AARP Board of Directors, Georgia’s Community Vision 2006 Public Safety Committee, the Governor’s Commission on Elder Abuse, the American Bar Association’s Criminal Evidence Committee, the Advisory Council on U.S. Courts, and the TRIAD Council. Currently serving also as a Municipal Judge fo r Harris County, Dr. Mendoza has written extensively on consumer protection issues, has donated pro bono legal services to the Columbus Hispanic Association and to many organizations and individuals worldwide, and has served as a professor and Chairman of the Criminal Justice Department at Troy State University. Dr. Mendoza served three terms of duty with the U.S. Army Special Forces in Vietnam and was the recipient of a Silver Star, several Bronze Stars for Valor, and the Legion of Merit. |
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Raul Yzaguirre is one of the foremost Hispanic civil rights leaders of his generation. An activist and organizer from his youth, Dr. Yzaguirre served as President and CEO of the National Council of La Raza, the nation’s premier Hispanic constituency-based organization, for thirty years. An advisor to Presidents, the House, and Senate for decades, Dr. Yzaguirre has helped shaped innumerable pieces of legislation both in support of the Hispanic community and the advancement of civil rights in America for all minorities. The recipient of many honorary doctorates, Yzaguirre now serves as Presidential Professor of Practice at Arizona State University, where he also founded the Center for Community Development and Civil Rights. |
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Fernando Torres-Gil is Acting Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, where he also serves as Associate Dean of Academic Affairs. One of the country’s foremost scholars and advocates on health and long-term care, the politics of aging, social policy, ethnicity, and disability, Dr. Torres-Gil is the author of six books and scores of articles and reports. His work continues to make an impact at the local level (he has been a planner and commissioner in Los Angeles County in several important positions for years), in the academy (he is the recipient of many distinguished awards and a Fellow of the Gerontological Society of America, the National Academy of Public Administration, and other professional societies) and at the federal level (as the first Assistant Secretary for aging in the U.S. Dept. of Health and Human services and a long-time adviser to the White House and Congress on aging issues). Born and raised in Salinas, California, Dr. Torres-Gil was the son of migrant workers. |
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Eric Rodriguez has been an advocate at the National Council of La Raza (NCLR), where he helps to supervise and coordinate core operations of the Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation, for over twelve years. As part of his national-level policy and advocacy activities, Rodriguez has also written or contributed to many publications on economic issues and their impact on low-income Latinos. He also frequently testifies before Congress on Social Security reform, mortgage lending, welfare reform, and other major issues, and his work is regularly cited in both the English and Spanish media. Mr. Rodriguez, who holds a master’s degree in Public Administration from American University in Washington, DC, also serves as Vice Chairman of the Board of the Coalition on Human Needs (CHN). |
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Rafaela R. Robles holds a Doctorate Degree of Education in Sociology from Columbia University. Dr. Robles is a pioneer in the fields of Substance Abuse Addiction and HIV/AIDS research, having contributed to the development of these fields as a consultant, professor, researcher, and director of various entities. Currently, Dr. Robles is Director of the Institute of Research, Education, and Services in Addiction of the Universidad Central Del Caribe, School of Medicine in Bayamón. The recipient of many scholarly and national awards, Dr. Robles has participated in several state and federal commissions and advisory committees and regularly advises the federal government on the development of HIV/AIDS and addiction research. |
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Bárbara Robles joined the College of Public Programs at Arizona State University as an Associate Professor in August 2005. She currently sits on the Board of Economic Advisors for the U.S. Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and is a board member of United for a Fair Economy (UFE). She is the author of numerous books, including her most recent, The Color of Wealth: The Story Behind the U.S. Racial Wealth Divide (New Press, 2006). Formerly, she was a Revenue Estimator/Economist for the Joint Committee on Taxation. She is currently engaged in a five-year survey data collection effort with the Southwest border community-based agencies on financial behaviors and needs for low-resource working families. Dr. Robles teaches graduate courses in Latino Family Financial Fitness and Community Asset Building Policies and Community-University Collaborative Leadership at Arizona State University, and is a research fellow at the Filene Research Institute, the research arm for the Credit Union National Association (CUNA). |
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Juan Ramos, a long-time scholar and advocate on issues of critical importance to the health of older Americans, is currently retired after 35 years at the National Institute of Mental Health, National Institutes of Health. Dr. Ramos is the former Senior Advisor to the Director of NIMH. He received his Ph.D. at the Florence Heller School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare, Brandeis University. |
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John Feather is Executive Director and CEO of the American Society of Consultant Pharmacists, the national membership organization of pharmacists who specialize in care of older persons, with headquarters in Alexandria, Virginia. Until 2002, he was Director of the AARP Andrus Foundation, the research and education charitable arm of AARP. For the seventeen years prior to that appointment in 1995, Dr. Feather held several positions at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Prior to that he was Director of the Western New York Geriatric Education Center. Dr. Feather is a Past President of Grantmakers in Aging, and is currently on the Board of Directors of the American Society on Aging. He is also on the faculty of the Nonprofit Management Program at George Mason University. |
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