Candidate for
Trustee; Peralta Community College District; Trustee Area 4

EDUCATION:

• Ph.D., Jurisprudence and Social Policy Program, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1996).
• JD, Boalt Hall School of Law, University of California, Berkeley (1992)
• BA, Summa Cum Laude, Political Science, Carleton College, Northfield, MN (1981) (academic advisor: Paul D. Wellstone).

• Political Science Instructor, De Anza College, Cupertino, CA (1989- present)--full time instructor in the political science department. I view my primary job as training students for civic engagement through critical thinking and exposure to opportunities for them to engage in grassroots political action.
• Congressional Fellow, Office of Senator Paul Wellstone (D- MN), Washington, DC (2001)-- In the spring of 2001 while on sabbatical from De Anza College I was a Congressional Fellow in the late Paul Wellstone's DC Senate Office. I worked chiefly with the education staffers in mitigating the damage of what subsequently became the misnamed "No Child Left Behind Act." I was also active advocating for increased financial aid for college students from poor and working class families.

• National Center for Youth Law, San Francisco, CA
• Fair Housing Center of Marin County (fair housing counselor
• The Asian Law Caucus
• The Youth Project
• The People's Law Office, Chicago, IL

In addition to my paid work, for over 25 years I have contributed to the communities in which I have lived. I have worked on a range of projects: from campus anti-apartheid work, to the peace movement, to civil rights advocacy, to student and faculty leadership development, and most recently to voter registration and mobilization. I list the most relevant projects below along with titles and dates that give some idea of the many hours of work behind each of these efforts.

• Wellstone Democratic Renewal Club (Club Secretary, Electoral Committee & Swing States Project Speakers' Bureau, 2003 to present)
• East Bay Votes! (Planning Committee, 2004)
• Get Out the Student Vote (Executive Director, Berkeley/Oakland, 2004)
• City of Berkeley Peace and Justice Commission (2003)
• De Anza College Diversity Leadership Training Project (founding director and lead trainer, 1991 to present)
• De Anza College Students for Justice Club (faculty advisor, 2003-2004)
• De Anza College Community and Action for Gender Liberation Club (faculty advisor, 2004)
• De Anza College Asian Pacific American Staff Association (Executive Committee, 2001 to present)
• De Anza College Diversity Council (member, 1993-1997)
• De Anza College Staff Development Committee (member, 1993-1997)
• De Anza College Visiting Speakers Series (member, 1993-2003)
• Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, UC Berkeley, (Chair and Board member, 1986-1990)
• Boalt Hall Coalition for a Diversified Faculty (two term chair, co-founder and board member, 1985-1990)
• Livermore Action Group (Spokes Council, 1984-1985)
• San Francisco Nuclear Weapons Freeze Campaign- (Steering Committee, 1982-1984)
• JP Stevens worker boycott support (Carleton College, 1979-1981)
• Anti-Apartheid campus organizing (Carleton College, 1977-1981)

• "Don't drop budget ax on college students: Community Colleges Face Cost-Cutting Nightmare," (op ed piece published in the San Jose Mercury News, April 12, 2004)
• "Access to Higher Education Benefits Everyone," (op ed piece published in the Berkeley Daily Planet, March 30, 2004)
• The Politics of Liberation: An American Studies Reader, 4th Edition, Nicky González Yuen, editor (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1994, 1997, 2000, 2003)
• "Oppression and Democracy" in The Politics of Liberation, 3rd ed., Nicky González Yuen, ed. (Dubuque, IA: Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 2000)
• "Divided We Fall: A Primer on Classism in the United States" (with Dale Weaver), Socialist Review, Vol. 27, Nos. 3 & 4, (1999)
• Lives of Resistance, Communities of Support: Microstructural Processes in the Recruitment and Retention of High Cost Political Activists in the War Tax Resistance Movement. (Unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, 1996)
• "Alienation or Empowerment: Law and Strategies for Social Change," Law and Social Inquiry, Vol. 14, No. 3 (Summer 1989)

I am married to Jude Yuen, my partner of 26 years. Jude is a psychologist who works in a county community mental health clinic in our neighboring city of Richmond. We have two children who attend public schools in Berkeley. We have lived in Berkeley and Oakland for 21 years and currently reside in a small co-housing community in Berkeley.

OTHER MEMBERSHIPS:

• Faculty Association of the Foothill-De Anza Community College District
• Faculty Association of the California Community Colleges
• California Part-Time Faculty Association (as a full-time faculty member, I am a supporting member of this group)
• Sierra Club