Featured Speakers

Friday Keynote Luncheon Speaker:
Donna Brazile, Author & Political Strategist

More information coming soon.

Friday Plenary Session:
Latinos in Higher Education: Affirmative Action, Governmental Policies, and the Role of Ethnic Studies

Dr. Joel Gomez, Associate Professor of Educational Leadership - George Washington University

Dr. Alberto Lopez Pulido,Chair of the Department of Ethnic Studies - the University of San Diego)

Dr. Gumecindo Salas,Vice President of the Hispanic Association of Colleges & Universities

Saturday Plenary Session:
Who Counts in Terms of the Humanities & Arts?

Saturday Keynote Luncheon Speaker:
Hiroshi Motomura, Professor of Law, UCLA

Hiroshi Motomura is a professor at the UCLA School of Law and an influential teacher and scholar of immigration and citizenship law. His scholarship has generated many ideas that have shaped our understanding of immigrants' rights, and have made a difference in litigation and policymaking. Motomura's comprehensive study of U.S. immigration policy, Americans in Waiting: The Lost Story of Immigration and Citizenship in the United States (Oxford University Press 2006), won the Professional and Scholarly Publishing Award from the Association of American Publishers as the year's best book in Law and Legal Studies, and was chosen by the U.S. Department of State for its Suggested Reading List for Foreign Service Officers. Professor Motomura has testified as an immigration expert in the U.S. Congress, and has served as co-counsel or a volunteer consultant in several cases in the U.S. Supreme Court and the federal appeals courts. Most recently, he served as an Outside Advisor to the Obama-Biden Transition Team's Working Group on Immigration Policy.