Actor and activist Edward James Olmos will join the WSU community in celebrating its 40th Anniversary as a Presidential Lecture Series speaker, in collaboration with Wright State's annual Quest for Community: A Call to Action conference.
Considered by many to be the voice of Latin America in Hollywood and around the nation, Olmos is active in many causes. He has given motivational speeches at reservations, prisons, high schools, and colleges. The Los Angeles Commission on Human Relations awarded Olmos the John Anson Ford Award for his efforts after the 1992 riots in Los Angeles. The NAACP has honored him for his leadership in promoting racial unity. Along with his role as Adama on the cable series Battlestar Galactica, Olmos recently directed the film Walkout for HBO.
Keynote Speaker:
Ana M. "Cha" Guzmán, Ed.D.
Friday, April 13, 2007
9–10 a.m.
Apollo Multipurpose Room
WSU Student Union
Quest Registration required.
One of the nation’s foremost Hispanic educators, Ana M. "Cha" Guzmán, Ed.D., has served in several high-profile positions in education. Under the Clinton administration, she was a senior advisor to U.S. Department of Education Secretary Richard W. Riley and chair of the Presidential Commission on Excellence in Education for Hispanic Americans.
While at the Department of Education, Guzmán identified advances in promoting access in education for the Hispanic community. She was influential in creating a new vision for the role of technical education in maintaining the competitive viability of this country’s workforce and identifying opportunities to make adult education more responsive in the Hispanic community.
She has since held several high-level positions at both Austin Community College and Texas A&M University, and, in 2001, became the first woman president of Palo Alto College in San Antonio, Texas, where she currently presides.
