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 Association.

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.