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.

DAVID BRADFIELD
Associate Vice President, South, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Dominguez Hills Chapter, California Faculty Association
Professor, Music & Performing Arts, CSU Dominguez Hills

David Bradfield began teaching at CSU Dominguez Hills in 1982 and is a Professor of Music & Digital Media Arts. He is in charge on the Music Technology Program and the computer music facilities.

He received his Master of Music-Composition from North Texas State University with additional studies in computer music at Stanford and Colgate Universities.

Bradfield is very involved in the labor movement and in addition to holding the Associate Vice President position on the Board of Directors is the campus chapter president.

JACKI BOOTH
Lecturers' Representative, 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

Dr. Jacki Booth is a full-time lecturer in the Child and Family Development Department at San Diego State University. Her courses include the multi-dimensionality of family roles and relationships across the life span. Her current research interests include psychological reactivity and intimate relationships with a focus on attachment cues in adult relationships. She received a bachelor's degree in psychology, a master's degree in counseling psychology, and a doctorate in clinical psychology. Booth is a certified mediator and clinical psychologist. She has been teaching at San Diego State University for 16 years.

Booth currently serves on the CFA Board of Directors and is the Faculty Rights Chair and Lecturer’s Representative at San Diego State University.

THERESA MONTANO
Affirmative Action Representative, California Faculty Association
President, CSU Northridge Chatper, California Faculty Association
Assistant Professor, Chicano/a Studies, CSU Northridge

Theresa Montaño an associate professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at Cal State University Northridge. As a professor at Cal State Northridge, she teaches courses to teacher candidates in the area of Equity and Diversity in School, Chicano/a Childhood and Adolescence, and research in Chicano/a education.

An active unionist, Montaño joined the staff of United Teachers Los Angeles (UTLA), where she worked as an area representative and professional development specialist for nine years.

Before accepting a position at California State University, Northridge (CSUN), Theresa was faculty advisor and instructor in UCLA’s Teacher Education Program. From 2000-2002, she served as co-director of UCLA’s TeachLA program, a union-district-university collaborative in Los Angeles. Theresa’s research is in the schooling of Chicano/a-Latino/a students; Critical pedagogy; teacher activism; and Bilingual/ELL instruction.

Montaño is the newly elected voice of higher education on the CTA Board of Directors. Montaño is familiar with that role having previously served for six years as an NEA board director. Her many years of experience as a middle and high school teacher in Los Angeles and Denver, Colo., gives her a special understanding of issues facing educators in California’s public schools.

Theresa also serves on the Board of Directors for the California Faculty Association (CFA), serving as one of two representatives for the Council for Affirmative Action. She is active in the Latino/a and Teacher Education Caucus. Until her election to the CTA Board, Montaño was also chair of the CFA caucus at CTA state council caucus and chapter president of CSUN CFA chapter.

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.