ANDRÉS EUGENIO JIMÉNEZ
California Program on Opportunity and Equity (CalPOE)
University of California
1950 Addison, Suite 203
Berkeley, CA 94704-2647
(510) 642-8328
Andres.Jimenez@ucla.edu

Brief Biography:

Andrés Jiménez is director of the California Program on Opportunity and Equity (CalPOE), a cross-campus academic public service program that applies independent, nonpartisan scholarly research expertise to public policy issues. CalPOE has offices in Berkeley, UCLA, and Sacramento. Jiménez has researched and written about society and politics in the United States and Mexico, U.S. race and ethnic relations, U.S. immigration policy, and U.S.–Latin American relations. He has published commentaries in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, La Opinion, and the San Jose Mercury News. His analysis and commentaries have also been aired on National Public Radio, Pacifica Radio, the British Broadcasting Service, the Univision Network, and the Telemundo Network.

Before joining CalPOE, Jiménez directed for more than sixteen years the UC California Policy Research Center after coordinating research programs at the Institute of International Studies and the Institute for the Study of Social Change at the University of California, Berkeley for more than a decade. Jiménez serves as member of the State Advisory Council of the Center for California Studies at California State University, Sacramento and the Public Policy Institute of California. He has participated on the editorial committees of the Harvard Journal for Hispanic Policy and the Journal of Hispanic Higher Education. Jiménez was twice elected to the national Policy Council for the Association of Public Policy Analysis and Management (APPAM) for the 1994-1998 and 2001-2005 terms. He currently serves as chair of the APPAM Diversity and Equity Committee. He also served on the Advisory Board for a major RAND Corporation study of the effects of large-scale immigration on California, the Board of Directors of the International Institute of the East Bay, and the Newcomers Task Force of Contra Costa County, which he chaired. Jiménez received his BA in Politics and Latin American Studies from UC Santa Cruz, and he pursued doctoral studies in Political Science at UC Berkeley.

Public Lecture Topics

  • Pathways to the PhD for Students from Underrepresented Communities,Washington DC National Conference on Diversity in Sciences
  • Building a Mexico-US Binational Teacher Corps, Binational Symposium on Education, Monterrey, Mexico
  • Re-emergence of Mexican Influence in California, San Francisco World Affairs Council
  • The Equity Challenge in California Higher Education after Proposition 209, Berkeley Campus Assembly
  • Mexican Political Identities in  the New California, Commentary, UC San Diego conference on new perspectives in Ethnic Studies
  • The Steps to Immigrant Integration in California, San Rafael chapter, World Affairs Council
  • The Mexico-US Border: Boundary or Linkage?, San Jose Art Museum Undergraduate Admissions in the Post-209 World, Testimony into the US Civil Rights Commission

Publications:

  • Latinos and Public Policy in California: An Agenda for Opportunity. editor and co-author of introduction with David Lopez. Berkeley Public Policy Press: Berkeley, 2003.
  • "The New Latino Civil Rights Agenda" with Patricia Gandara, in Latino Civil Rights. Harvard University Press: Cambridge. Gary Orfield, editor, 1998.
  • "Making the Farm Worker's Life Even Harder," New York Times. October 10. commentary co-authored by Manuel Garcia y Griego. 1997.
  • "California's Racial Divide" San Jose Mercury News. September 21. feature commentary. 1994.
  • "Towards a Humane National Policy on Immigration" Hispanics in Philanthropy News.  Summer 1994.
  • "Mexico: Why Tragedy May Lead to Political Transformation" San Jose Mercury News. March 27, 1993.
  • "6 Million Californians Can't All be Wrong" Commentary, Los Angeles Times. October 27, 1989.
  • "Latinos in the California Economy" with Alex M. Saragoza in The Challenge: Latinos in a Changing California. UC MEXUS and SCR 43 Task Force (also co-editor of the entire volume). 1986.
  • "Living Up the Street: Coming of Age in Post-World War II California," Feature Review in Lector Recommendations.
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Websites

http://equity.ucla.edu

http://www.nclr.org/content/policy/detail/48106/
 
 
Books

  • Rodolfo Acuña, Anything But Mexican, Verso Press
  • Rodolfo Acuña, Occupied America: A History of Chicanos, Harper and Row
  • Laura Gómez, Manifest Destinies: The Making of The Mexican American Race, New York University Press
  • Chalmers Johnson, Nemesis: The Last Days of the American Republic, Metropolitan Books
  • Carey McWilliams, California: The Great Exception, University of California Press
  • David Montejano, Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, University of Texas Press
  • Martín Sánchez-Jankowski, Islands in the Street, University of California Press

Andrés Jiménes has been listed in the Directory of California Thinkers since 19-Nov-1999.