MICRO-BIO

• I have been researching environmental policy and quality of life issues along the U.S.-Mexican border for more than 20 years.

  I have been researching environmental policy and quality of life issues along the U.S.-Mexican border for more than 20 years. Less

EXPERIENCE

• CSUSB

  • Professor
  • Public Administration
  • Present

• Leonard Transportation Center, CSUSB

  • Executive Director
  • Public Administration
  • 5500 University Parkway
  • August 2009 to Present

EDUCATION

• El Colegio de la Frontera Norte

  • PhD
  • August 2002 to May 2006

  Dissertation on Local Government Capacity and Quality of Life in the U.S.-Mexican Border: The Case of Calexico and Mexicali

• San Diego State University

  • MA in Political Science
  • August 1992 to May 1994

  Thesis: Direct Foreign Investment and Labor Conditions: The Case of the Mexican Maquilas

DISCIPLINES

• Public Policy Analysis, Other

• Transportation And Infrastructure Planning/Studies

Interests

• U.S. Mexican Border Region

• Climate Change

• Alternative Technologies; Sustainability And Social Equity

Languages

• Spanish

• English

Links

• Portraying Borders
• Leonard Transportation Center