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CONTACTS AND BIOGRAPHIES
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Media Contact:
Alice Sunshine
CFA Communications Director
(510) 384-1967
asunshine@calfac.org
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BIOGRAPHIES OF CFA BOARD MEMBERS
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LILLIAN TAIZ
President, California Faculty Association
Professor, History, California State University Los Angeles
Lillian Taiz is a professor of history at California State University, Los Angeles, specializing in 19th century American social and cultural history. She is the author of "Hallelujah Lads and Lasses: Remaking the Salvation Army in the United States, 1880-1930".
Taiz serves as President of the California Faculty Associaiton.
As a product of the California's community college, CSU, and UC systems, Taiz considers herself a "poster child" for all that California's Master Plan for Public Higher Education can offer the working people of this state.
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KIM GERÓN
Vice President, California Faculty Association
Assistant Professor, Political Science, CSU East Bay
Kim Gerón is an Associate Professor of Political Science at California State University, East Bay. He received his BA in Labor Studies at California State University, Dominguez Hills in 1992 and PhD in Political Science at University of California, Riverside in 1998. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of racial and ethnic politics, public administration, labor and immigration policy, and and state and local politics.
His current duties for CFA include Vice President and member of the CFA Board of Directors, Political Action Coordinator for the East Bay chapter, and head of the Student Intern program.
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JOHN HALCÓN
Secretary, California Faculty Association
Professor, College of Education, California State University San Marcos
John J. Halcón is Professor of Education at CSU San Marcos, specializing in bilingual/multicultural education and program organization, racism in education, and the education of ‘at risk’ kids. He is co-author of ‘The Best for Our Children: Critical Perspectives on Literacy for Latino Students’ (with Maria de la Luz Reyes, 2000).
Halcón serves as statewide Secretary of the California Faculty Association.
Halcón received his PhD in Educational Administration, Program of Organizations and Policy and Bilingual Education from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He earned his M.Ed. in Inner City Education and B.A. in Chicano Studies/Sociology from Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles.
Halcón has published in the Harvard Educational Review, the Urban Review, the Bilingual Review Press, the Journal of The National Association for Bilingual Education, Bordos, Hispanic Outlook, and the Journal of Latinos and Education. serves as Secretary for the California Faculty Association.
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PETER KREYSA
Treasurer, California Faculty Association
Assistant Professor, Occupational Studies, CSU Long Beach
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DAVID BRADFIELD
Associate Vice President, South, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Dominguez Hills Chapter, California Faculty Association
Professor, Music & Performing Arts, CSU Dominguez Hills
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ANDY MERRIFIELD
Associate Vice President, North, California Faculty Association
President, Sonoma State Univ. Chapter, California Faculty Association
Professor, Political Science, Sonoma State University
Andy Merrifield has been a member of the political science department at Sonoma State for over twenty years. His areas of speciality are the
American presidency, budgetary politics, state and local government and
political methodology.
Merrifield joined CFA soon after joining the faculty. Before teaching at Sonoma he was active in SEIU and CTA, the former in local government and thelatter at a community college. He also worked as the sole staff member
for an independent union in local government.
At Sonoma Merrifield served as the PAC/leg person on the executive board, then chapter vice president; he is now in his second term as chapter president. He currently serves on the CFA bargaining committee.
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ELIZABETH HOFFMAN
Associate Vice President, Lecturers, California Faculty Association
Lecturer, English, California State University Long Beach
Elizabeth Hoffman has been a lecturer in the Department of English at CSU, Long Beach for more than 20 years. She has been part of several team-teaching projects: a computer-assisted writing skills program for at-risk students; a Heritage Languages Initiative; and the Integrated Teacher Education Program. She serves as Lecturer Project Leader in the Faculty Center for Professional Development. She is co-author of two editions of "A Guide to the Whole Writing Process" (Houghton Mifflin).
Hoffman is in her fourth term as the California Faculty Association’s statewide associate vice president-Lecturers. In addition, she has served since 1993 on the CFA Board of Directors. She serves on the Contract Development/Bargaining Strategy Committee and is a member of bargaining team. At the statewide level, she has been a member of the CFA Finance Committee, the joint statewide CFA/California State University/Academic Senate Workload Committee, and the joint statewide committee charged with implementing ACR-73, a plan mandated by the California Legislature to hire more tenure-track faculty.
Hoffman is on the Long Beach CFA Chapter Executive Board as the chapter's co-lecturer representative.
In 2007, she was elected to a second term as a member of the American Association of University Professors' National Council.
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CECIL CANTON
Associate Vice President, Council for Affirmative Action
Dr. Cecil E. Canton is a tenured professor in the Division of Criminal Justice at CSU Sacramento. He is the California Faculty Association Associate Vice President, and Chair of the Council for Affirmative Action. Canton is the co-author/editor of The Politics of Survival in Academia: Narratives of Inequity, Resilience, and Success (Rowman & Littlefield, 2002), a book dealing with the issues of diversity, identity and authenticity in higher education.
Professor Canton is a member of the Executive Committee of the National Council for Higher Education (NCHE) and a member of the Minority Leadership Training Cadre of the National Education Association (NEA).
Canton is a specialist in conflict resolution and a national and international trainer in the areas of dispute resolution, mediation, negotiation, facilitation and conciliation. He was the Conference Chair of the CFA 2003 and 2006 Equity Conferences.
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ELIZABETH CARA
Chapter Presidents' Representative, California Faculty Association
President, San Jose State Univ. Chapter, California Faculty Association
Associate Professor, Occupational Therapy, San Jose State Univ.
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SUSAN GREEN
Chapter Presidents' Representative, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Chico Chapter, California Faculty Association
History Department, CSU Chico
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RICHARD SAENZ
Chapter Presidents' Representative, California Faculty Association
President, CalPoly San Luis Obispo Chapter, California Faculty Association
Dept Chair, Physics, CalPoly San Luis Obispo
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LILLIAN VEGA CASTANEDA
Chapter Presidents' Representative, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Channel Islands Chapter, California Faculty Association
Professor, Education, CSU Channel Islands
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JACKI BOOTH
Lecturers' Repesentative, California Faculty Association
Faculty Rights Chair, San Diego State Univ. Chapter, California Faculty Association
Full Time Lecturer, Child and Family Development, San Diego State University
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ELOISE McQUOWN
Librarian Representative, Californai Faculty Association
PA/Leg Chair, San Francisco State Univ. Chapter, California Faculty Association
Librarian, San Francisco State University
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THERESA MONTANO
Affirmative Action Representative, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Northridge Chatper, California Faculty Association
Assistant Professor, Chicano/a Studies, CSU Northridge
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LINDA TURNER BYNOE
Affirmative Action Representative, California Faculty Association
Treasurer, CSU Monterey Bay Chapter, California Faculty Association
Faculty, Liberal Studies Department, CSU Monterey Bay
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CHRIS HAYNES
Contract Development & Bargaining Strategy Chair, California Faculty Association
Lecturers' Representative, Humboldt State Univ. Chapter, California Faculty Association
Lecturer, Geography, Humboldt State University
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EMMA GIBSON
Membership & Organizing Chair, California Faculty Association
Membership Chair, CSU Pomona Chapter, California Faculty Association
Reference Librarian, CSU Pomona
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JOHN TRAVIS
Political Action/Legislation Chair, California Faculty Association
Professor, Political Science, Humboldt State University
John Travis is a long-time professor of Political Science at Humboldt State University. His teaching and research areas are international relations, Latin American politics, and California government and politics.
He has been faculty union member since joining Humboldt’s faculty, first as a member of the United Professors of California, and later as a member of the California Faculty Association. He has served in many positions in CFA's Humboldt chapter, including chapter president. He also was a member of the CFA Board of Directors and Chair of the CFA Bargaining Team before his term as president of CFA from 2003 to 2007.
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TOM McCOY
Representation Chair, California Faculty Association
President, CSU East Bay Chapter, California Faculty Association
Professor, Communication, CSU East Bay
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DIETER RENNING
Retired Faculty, California Faculty Association
Retired Professor, Economics, CSU Stanislaus
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MAUREEN LOUGHRAN
Board Member, California Faculty Association
President, California Higher Education Staff Union, California Faculty Association
Regional Staff Representative, California Faculty Association
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DÍAN DOLORES HASSON
Non-Voting Official Observer, California Faculty Association
California Teachers Association
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ANN SHADWICK
Non-Voting Official Observer, California Faculty Association
National Education Association
Ann Shadwick is the Ethnic Studies Librarian at San Francisco State University, and currently serves on the National Education Association Board of Directors representing all California higher education.
She served as CFA President from 1985 to1989. She has also served as President of NEA's National Council for Higher Education and on the California Teachers Association Board of Directors representing all higher education units in CTA, as well at the student program.
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