About CMSC

Welcome to the official site for the California-Mexico Studies Center !

 

The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.

CMS Center was founded by California State University Long Beach Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos in 2010 as an extension of the California-Mexico Project that he has led since 1998 at the CSULB Chicano and Latino Studies department.

Luz Vazquez-Ramos President & CEO
The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc.
1551 N. Studebaker Road
Long Beach, CA 90815
Cell: (562) 506-4461

Email: luz@calmexcenter.org

 

CMSC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Armando Vázquez Ramos†, Founder and Forever Remembered
Co-Founder, Chicano & Latino Studies Department at CSU, Long Beach
Former California-Mexico Project & Ethnic Studies Initiative Coordinator at CSU, Long Beach

Luz Vazquez-Ramos, President and CEO
Master of Public Administration (MPA) & Master of Arts in International Education Management from Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Bachelor of Arts, BA in Chicano and Latino Studies from CSU, Long Beach

Email: luz@calmexcenter.org | Biography
Gonzalo Santos, Vice-President
CMSC Central California Region
Professor, Sociology Department
California State University Bakersfield
Bakersfield, California
Primitivo Rodriguez, Vice-President
CMSC Mexico City and Guadalajara Region
Journalist and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Political
Rights of Mexicans Abroad
Joe Dieringer, Treasurer and Secretary
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Jose Francisco Roman, Vice-President, Mexico Central Region
Professor, History Department, Zacatecas Autonomous University
Dr. Juan Manuel Sandoval, Member
Coordinator, Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos
y de Fronteras (DEAS-INAH) Mexico City, Mexico
Dra. Ana Uribe, Member
Profesor, Universidad de Colima
Colima, Mexico and Long Beach, California

STAFF

Esther Alonso, Coordinator of Academic Programs in Mexico
Ph.D. on International Relations at UNAM

Email: esther@calmexcenter.org
Joe Dieringer, Chief Financial Officer
Rancho Cucamonga, CA