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Jose Ibarra, Woodburn
Jose Ibarra is an active community organizer and civic leader, he has served on the Commission since 2002 and was elected Chair, effective July 1, 2008. Mr. Ibarra was recently reappointed by Governor Ted Kulongoski to serve another 3-year term on the Commission.
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Raymond C. Caballero, Portland
Raymond C. Caballero, formerly in law practice in El Paso, Texas, now resides in Northeast Portland and is active in community affairs. Mr. Caballero serves on the Oregon Progress Board, the Environmental Justice Task Force, and has served on the Commission since July 2008.
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Steven Bender, Eugene
Steven W. Bender spent five years practicing real estate law at the Phoenix-based business law firm of Lewis and Roca. He is the coauthor of a casebook on real estate transactions, a national treatise on real estate financing, and a book on Latino stereotypes titled Greasers and Gringos: Latinos, Law, and the American Imagination (NYU Press 2003) and a book on politics titled One Night in America: Robert Kennedy, Cesar Chavez, and the Dream of Dignity (Paradigm Publishers 2008). Bender previously served as codirector of the law school's Center for Law and Entrepreneurship. He is an elected member of the American Law Institute and the American College of Real Estate Lawyers.
Lily Caceres, Lake Oswego
Lily is the Minority Services Latina/Hispanic Coordinator at the Oregon Youth Authority (La Correccional Juvenil de Oregon)/Office of Minority Services. She is originally from Lima-Peru. She participates in and/or serves on several governmental, non-governmental and community organizations, committees, taskforces, councils, workgroups, associations, et al. Lily is actively involved in support of issues that effect the Hispanic/Latino communities. She is a board member of CREATE (an alternative educational/vocational center for at-risk Latino/Hispanic youth in Washington County) and the American Red Cross Pacific Northwest Blood Services Region. She has served on the Commission since November 2006.
Professor Gilbert P. Carrasco, Salem
Gilbert Paul Carrasco is an expert in civil rights law, immigration law and constitutional law. He is the author of three national casebooks on these subjects and numerous law review articles. He has taught as a visiting professor at Lewis & Clark, Oregon, San Diego, Seton Hall and Willamette. He also studied for extended periods at Oxford, Stanford, Hastings and George Washington. Professor Carrasco teaches Civil Rights, Constitutional Law and Employment Discrimination. In 2008, he joined the board of directors of the Oregon chapter of the American Constitution Society. The following year, he was appointed to the Oregon Commission on Hispanic Affairs by Gov. Ted Kulongoski.
Verenice Gutierrez, Ph.D., Happy Valley
Dr. Verenice Gutierrez is an Assistant Principal at Hosford Middle School in the Portland Public Schools, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Phoenix. As the first in her family to attend college, and product of the bilingual program of the El Paso Independent School District, she is passionate about serving students. Dr. Gutierrez has served on the Commission since July 2008.
Professor Marcela Mendoza, Eugene
Marcela Mendoza joined CSWS (Center for the Study of Women in Society) in the fall of 2006 as a research associate for the Women in the Northwest’s Gender, Families, and Immigration Project. Marcela teaches on indigenous peoples of the South American Lowlands, and on international migration in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oregon and Oregon State University. She brings to the Commission her strong commitment to collaborative research and community service partnerships, and the lessons learned during her previous research and advocacy work with Latino immigrants in Memphis, Tennessee.
David Molina, Fairview
David Molina is an entrepreneur, and Co-Founder and Chief Executive of The BilingualHire Company, an online job resource for organizations to recruit bilingual [Spanish+ English] talent, and for bilingual talent to advance their careers. A community activist, he has served on the Commission since April 2006 and served as Vice Chair from July 1, 2008 to July 16, 2009.
Dagoberto Morales-Duran, Medford
Dagoberto has worked very actively as a volunteer in the Hispanic Community for the past 11 years. He believes that he can effectively represent the needs and interests of the Hispanic Community in Southern Oregon. He has lived in Medford for the past 15 years and has seen the population there grow and change.
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Senator Fred Girod- R-Stayton, District 9
Senator Girod began his public service in the House of Representatives in 1992. He was recently appointed to serve a two-year term on the Commission. [read full bio]
Representative Chip Shields- D-Portland, District 43
Prior to being elected to the House of Representatives in 2005, Rep. Shields served as Executive Director of Better People, a non-profit, living-wage and counseling job placement center in N/NE Portland that he founded in 1998. He was recently apponted to serve a two-year term on the Commission. [read full bio]
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