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CURRICULUM VITAE
June, 2014
CYNTHIA JEAN TRUELOVE, Ph. D.
5855 Horton St., # 711
Emeryville, California 94608
Cellular: 510-703-2456
Email: thetrueloveco@comcast.net
Education:
1989 The Johns Hopkins University, Ph.D., Sociology, Program in Comparative
and International Development
1985 The Johns Hopkins University, School for Advanced International Studies,
M.A., International Affairs (Specializations in Latin American Studies,
Comparative Politics, and International Economics)
1978 Meredith College, B.A. (Cum Laude), Non-Western Civilizations
Additional Professional Training:
2014 CDR Associates, “Facilitation and Mediation of Public and Environmental
Conflicts, “ Boulder, Colorado.
2008-2012 Various training programs offered to California Public Utilities Commission staff
including subject matter such as Project Management, Microsoft Excel, Drafting an
Order Instituting Rulemaking (OIR), among others.
1998-2000 Doctoral Course Work, Ph.D. Program in Depth Psychology, Pacifica Graduate
Institute.
1998-2002 Numerous Continuing Legal Education courses on the Endangered Species Act,
Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Planning, and the Law of the Colorado River.
Professional Experience:
Present Water-Energy Practice Leader, Center for Collaborative Policy, California State
University-Sacramento
Present Principal, The Truelove Company, Emeryville, California
2012-2013 Water Energy Research Initiative, Water in the West, Stanford
University, Research Director and Visiting Scholar (Woods Institute for
the Environment)
2008-2012 California Public Utilities Commission, Policy and Planning Division,
Senior Water Policy Analyst
2005-2007 AfterImage+Space (Emeryville, CA), Research Program in Energy Efficient
Lighting, DOE-Sponsored Research Project on the Implementation of
Spectrally Enhanced Lighting for Energy Savings, Project Manager

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2002-2008 The Truelove Company, Owner, Environmental Conservation, Mitigation,
and Regional Planning Consultant
2002-2001 Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Program, Assistant Planning Manager
and Program Administrator, Environmental Planning Division, Department of
Comprehensive Planning, Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada
1998-2000 Desert Conservation Plan/Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Program,
Program Administrator, Department of Comprehensive Planning,
Environmental Planning Division, Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada
1997 Senior Management Analyst, Desert Conservation Plan, Department of
Administrative Services, Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada
1995-97 Research Fellow, Center for the Study of Women, University of California-Los
Angeles
1994-1995 Associate Director/Academic Coordinator, Women’s Studies Program,
University of California-Irvine, Irvine, California
1988-1993 Assistant Professor, Department of Rural Sociology, Latin American Studies and
Women’s Studies Programs, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1987 Visiting Professor, Department of Sociology and Women’s Studies Program,
University of Maryland at Baltimore County
Spring, 1987 Visiting Professor, Facultad de Ciencias Sociales y Economicas, Universidad del
Valle, Cali, Colombia
1983-1984 Teaching Assistant for Professors Richard Rubinson and Christopher Chase-
Dunn, Department of Sociology, The Johns Hopkins University
1981-1982 Community Action Research Project Staff, EMCODES (Empresas Cooperativos
en Desarrollo/Cooperatives for Development and Non-formal Education), Cali
Colombia
1979-1981 Program and Project Evaluation Officer, Latin American and Caribbean
Division, Appropriate Technology International, Washington, D.C.
1978-1979 National Office Program Staff, United Nations Office, Church Women United,
New York, New York
Publications:
Refereed Journals/Book Chapters:
1993 “The Informal Sector Revisited: The Case of the Talleres Rurales/Minimaquilas
in Colombia,” reprinted in William Glade and Inter-American Foundation: 201-
212.
1993 (with L. Bloomquist, C. Gringeri, H.L. Seyler, and D. Tomaskovic-Devey)
“Work Structures and Rural Poverty” in PERSISTENT POVERTY IN RURAL
AMERICA, Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press.
1991 (with Alejandro Portes) “Making Sense of Diversity: Recent Research on
Hispanic Minorities in the U.S.” (from ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY
13: 359-385) reprinted in Norman Yetman and C. Hoy Steele, eds. MAJORITY
AND MINORITY: THE DYNAMICS OF RACE AND ETHNICITY IN

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AMERICAN LIFE. Boston: Allyn and Bacon: 402-419.

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1990 “The Disguised Industrial Proletarian in Latin America: Women’s Informal
Sector Factory Work and the Social Reproduction of Coffee Farm Labor in
Colombia,” in Kathryn B. Ward, ed., WOMEN WORKERS AND GLOBAL
RESTRUCTURING. New York: ILR Press: 48-63.
1988 (with Alejandro Portes) “El Sentido de la Diversidad: Recientes investigaciones
sobre las minorias hispanas en los Estados Unidos,” in J. Cortina and Alberto
Moncada, eds., HISPANOS EN LOS ESTADOS UNIDOS, Madrid: Ediciones
de Cultura Hispanica: 30-58.
1987 (with Alejandro Portes) “Making Sense of Diversity: Recent Research on
Hispanic Minorities in the U.S.” ANNUAL REVIEW OF SOCIOLOGY 13: 359-
385.
1987 “The Informal Sector Revisited: The Case of the Colombian Mini-Maquilas,” in
Richard Tardanico, ed., CRISES IN THE CARIBBEAN, Volume 9, Political
Economy of the World-System Series. Beverly Hills: Sage: 95-110.
1986 (with Alejandro Portes and Alex Stepick). “Three Years Later: The Adaptation
Process of 1980 [Mariel Cuban and Haitian Refugees in South Florida,” in
POPULATION RESEARCH AND POLICY REVIEW, 5 (Spring): 83-94.
Additional Publications:
Books:
ENGENDERING FLEXIBILITY: THE GENDER, PLACE AND POLITICAL
ECONOMY OF ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING IN RURAL COLOMBIA
(Contract Offered and Declined by Author, State University of New York Press)
1989 FACTORIES IN THE FIELDS OF PLENTY: GENDER, AGRARIAN
TRANSFORMATION, AND INDUSTRIAL RESTRUCTURING IN THE
REGIONAL ECONOMY OF SOUTHWESTERN COLOMBIA. Unpublished
Ph. D. Dissertation, The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Maryland
White Papers:
2014 (with Newsha Ajami) “A Water-Energy Research Agenda: Building California’s Policy
Foundation for the 21st
Century,” a publication of the Water in the West Program,
Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University.
2013 (with Paul Vidal de la Blache, Andrew Fahlund, and Stacy Kourlis) WATER AND
ENERGY NEXUS: A LITERATURE REVIEW
(with Paul Vidal de la Blache, Andrew Fahlund, and Stacy Kourlis), a
publication of the Water in the West-joint program of the Woods Institute for
the Environment and the Precourt Institute for Energy, Stanford University,
Stanford, California
2010 with Lorraine White (Principal Researcher) and Michael Colvin “Water and
Wastewater On Site Renewable Energy Survey and Report on Potential Barriers
to Renewable Energy Generation in the Water and Wastewater Sectors, “ a
collaborative effort between the California Energy Commission, The Association
of California Water Agencies, the California Association of Sanitation Agencies,
the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California, and the California Public
Utilities Commission

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2010 “The California Public Utilities Commission and Its Place in California’s 21st
Century Water Arena,” Policy and Planning Division, California Public Utilities
Commission, San Francisco, California
1989 “Flexible Specialization or Specializing in Flexibility?: The Industrial Informal
Sector in Rural Colombia. “ Report prepared for the conference, “The Informal
Sector, Entrepreneurship and Development, “The John Hopkins University,
Department of Sociology, Baltimore, Maryland
1987 “Industrial Restructuring and Rural Employment Generation: Some Reflections
on the Limits to Getting It Together Collectively.” Mid-year Fellowship Report,
Conference of Doctoral Fellows of the Inter-American Foundation, Cocoyoc,
Mexico
1981 “Constraints to Development in the Cauca Valley, Colombia.” Report prepared
for Appropriate Technology International, Washington, D.C.
Invited Lectures, Conference Papers and Additional White Papers:
2014 (July) Invited Lecturer, “Climate Change and Water and Energy Policy Innovation,”
Chautauqua Institution, Week on the American West, Chautauqua, New York.
2014 Keynote Speaker, Water and Technology Conference on Water and Energy,
University of Laverne, Laverne, California, January 30, 2014.
2008-2014 Numerous conference presentations and keynote speeches across California as a
California state water policy expert on the development of California’s AB32
water and energy nexus policy innovation and implementation efforts, and on
California regulatory innovation towards integrated water/ water and energy
resource efficiency, planning, and management. Presented to an array of
audiences including the California Water Law Symposium; the Association of
California Water Agencies; the California Municipal Utilities Association; the
California Water Association; Water Education Foundation; Southern California
Edison Water Conference; Association of Women in Water, Environment and
Economics; Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, Bay Area Planning Coalition,
among others including numerous state agency partners and a wide array of
stakeholders. [To view a keynote address on California Integrated Resource
Efficiency Across Water and Energy, go to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6K4ucd6EwqY
2002 “Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Planning: A Comparative Framework for
Endangered Species Act Compliance Management in the American Southwest,”
Endangered Species Management Graduate Seminar, Department of
Environmental Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2001 “Race, Class, Gender and Economic Restructuring across Natural Resource
Frontiers in the World-Economy,” Graduate Seminar in Political Economy,
Department of Sociology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas
2000 “Gender, Race and Environmental Restructuring Along Colombia’s Pacific
Coast,” Feminist Approaches to Science Graduate Seminar, Departments of
Sociology and Geology, University of Nevada-Las Vegas

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1999 “Engendered Flexibility: A Case Study of Industrial Restructuring in Coffee-
Growing Regions of Southern Colombia,” Feminist Approaches to Science
Graduate Seminar, Departments of Sociology and Geology, University of
Nevada-Las Vegas
1998 “Gender and Economic Restructuring on a Natural Resource-based Extractive
Frontier,” Graduate Seminar in Political Economy, Department of Sociology,
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
1996 “Gender, Race, and Ecological Restructuring in Afro-Colombian Communities
on the Pacific Coast of Colombia,” Latin American Studies Program, University
of Florida-Gainesville
1995 “Disassembling the Generic Maquila Woman: Engendering the Political
Economy of Economic Restructuring in Southern Colombia,” Latin American
Studies Program, University of California-Irvine
1993 “Struggles Over Resource Management on Colombia’s Pacific Coast: Gender,
Space and Race,” Institute for Environmental Studies Series on The Sustainable
Management of Tropical Ecosystems, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1993 “Gender, Ethnic Identity, and Territoriality on Colombia’s Pacific Coast,” Board
of Sociology, University of California-Santa Cruz
1992 “From Poles of Attraction to Extraction: Feminist Perspectives on the Social
Embeddedness of Economic and Ecological Change on Colombia’s Pacific
Coast,” Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Florida International
University
1992 “To Divine the Hidden: Gender, Social Regulation, and Economic Restructuring
Reconsidered,” University of California Pacific Rim Research Program
Conference ‘Comparative Perspectives on Gender, Industrial Restructuring and
the State in East Asia, Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
1992 “The Social Embeddedness of Commodity Chains,” invited response to Gereffi
paper on Global Commodity Chains, Conference on the New International
Context of Development, University of Wisconsin-Madison Global Studies
Program and the Social Science Research Council, Madison, Wisconsin
1992 “The Social Context of Global Economic Restructuring,” Conference on Women
and Economic Restructuring: Comparisons of Third World Women and Women
in the U.S. Mid-West, Women and Development Program, Center for
International Development, University of Iowa
1990 “Industrial Restructuring and Women’s Work” (Reestructuracion Industrial y el
Trabajo de La Mujer), Seminar of the Women and Society Research Group,
Center for the Study of Social Sciences, National University, Bogota, Colombia
1989 “The Impact of the Debt Crisis on the Expansion of the Informal Sector in Latin
America: Some of the Consequences for Labor Unions,” Conference on the
Impact of the Debt Crisis on Latin American Labor Unions, Center for Labor
Studies, Florida International University
1989 “Industrial Restructuring and Prospects for Latin American Workers,” Center for
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1986 “Informality, Dependent Development and the Disguised Proletarian in Rural
Latin America,” Conference on the Comparative Study of the Informal Sector,
The Johns Hopkins University, Department of Sociology
Papers and Presentations at Professional Meetings and Workshops
Convened/Facilitated/Organized:
2008-2013 (See section above for keynote addresses on California integrated water/water
and energy policy and praxis)
2013
Convener, Facilitator and Moderator,
“(Re)Aligning California Climate Change
Policy and Innovation in the Water Sector,” an Uncommon Dialogue sponsored by the
Water in the West Program, Water-Energy Research Initiative, Woods Institute,
Stanford University, a multi-stakeholder dialogue among academic and consulting
sector policy experts, state water and energy policy regulatory staff, and representatives
from the water/wastewater and energy utility sectors.
2011-2012 Staff lead charged with developing, implementing, and facilitating four judicial
proceeding workshops to inform the development of a California Public Utilities
Commission Recycled Water General Policy Framework by Order Instituted
Rulemaking (R. 11-11-014/Judge Gary Weatherford) particularly promoting
statewide, regional, and local integrated water resource planning, financing,
ratemaking, regulation, and implementation across the California state water
regulatory agencies, Class A and B Investor-Owned Water and Sewer Utilities,
and their municipal sector recycled water wholesale partners
2010 Co-convener, Association of California Water Agencies Energy Committee Joint
Water and Energy Utilities Workshop on Energy Efficiency and Renewable
Energy Incentive Programs, Co-sponsored by the Policy and Planning Division,
California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, California
2010 Panelist, “Bridging the Divide: The Role of Water Agencies in Tapping
Into the Water-Energy Nexus,” Association of California Water Agencies,
Spring 2010 Meetings, Monterey, California
2010 Organizer and Facilitator, “Workshop on Statewide Water Use Data Integration
and the 2009 California Water Conservation and Efficiency Act (SBX7),”
California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco
2009 Co-convener, “Water and Energy Team/Climate Action Team Statewide
Recycled Water Workshop,” Co-sponsored by the State Water Resources Control
Board and the California Public Utilities Commission, Sacramento, California
2009 Presenter, “AB32 Climate Global Warming Solutions Act and the Water-Energy
Nexus,” Southern California Edison Annual Water Conference, Irwindale,
California
2009 Organizer and Facilitator, “Workshop on Integrated Water Resource
Management and Recycled Water: Municipal and Investor Owned Water Utility
Partnerships”, California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, California
2009 Organizer and Facilitator, “State Interagency Water Use Data Integration
Workshop”, California Public Utilities Commission, San Francisco, California

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2001 Organizer and Moderator, “Integrated Regional Environmental Planning Across
Endangered Species Management, Federal Lands Management, Urban Planning,
and Colorado River Management in the Lower Basin: A Decade of Integrated
Planning in Clark County (Las Vegas), Nevada,” Moderated Special Session
(with Kay Brothers, SNWA; Jory Stewart, Clark County Comprehensive
Planning; and Ron Gregory, Clark County Comprehensive Planning) , Annual
Meetings of the American Planning Association, New Orleans, Louisiana
2000 Presenter, “The Clark County, Nevada Multiple Species Habitat Conservation
Plan: A Case Study in Public Habitat Conservation Planning,” Western Planners
Association Annual Meetings, Spearfish, South Dakota
2000 Presenter, “The Clark County Desert Conservation Plan: A Decade of
Accomplishments,” National Desert Tortoise Council, Las Vegas, Nevada
1999 Panelist, “Public Habitat Conservation Planning and Stakeholder Participation,”
Wildlife Society Annual Meetings, Austin, Texas
1993 Organizer, Political Economy in the World-System Panel on the Social
Embeddedness of Global Economic Restructuring, Annual Meetings of the
American Sociological Association
1992 Presenter, “To Divine the Hidden: Gender, Social Regulation, and Economic
Restructuring Reconsidered,” American Sociological Association Annual
Meetings, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and the Latin American Studies Association
Bi-Annual Meetings, Los Angeles, California
1991 Presenter, “Looking with a Gendered Lens through the Prism of Restructuring:
The Social, Political, and Spatial Relations of Late Capitalism,” Sex and Gender
Thematic Panel ‘Gender and the Global Economy,’ American Sociological
Association Annual Meetings, Cincinnati, Ohio
1991 Presenter, “Feminism and Post-Fordism: Is There a Dialogue?,” Special Session
on Feminism at the End of the 20th
Century, Annual Meetings of the Mid-West
Sociological Association, Des Moines, Iowa
1990 Presenter, “Disassembling the Myth of the Generic Maquila Woman: A
Regional Economic Approach to the Study of Gender and the New Industrial
Worker,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Political
Economy of the World-System Section, Washington, D.C.
1990 Organizer, Political Economy in the World-System Section Roundtables Session,
Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C.
1989 Organizer, Roundtable on Gender and Industrial Restructuring, Political
Economy of the World-System Section, Annual Meetings of the American
Sociological Association, San Francisco, California
1989 Presenter, “Flexible Specialization or Specializing in Flexibility?,” Annual
Meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, Miami, Florida

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1989 Presenter, “The Industrial Informal Sector and Agrarian Change in Colombia:
Importing a Paradigm to the U.S.,” Annual Meetings of he Rural Sociological
Society, Seattle, Washington
1986 Co-organizer and Moderator, “Gender, Race, and Labor in the World-Economy,”
Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, New York, New
York
1985 Presenter, “Class Structure, Informality, and the Disguised Proletarian in Rural
Latin America,” Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association,
Washington, D.C. and the Eastern Economic Association, Richmond, Virginia
1985 Presenter, “The Informal Sector Revisited: The Case of the Colombian Mini-
Maquilas,” Ninth Annual Conference of the Political Economy of the World-
Systems Section of the American Sociological Association, Tulane University,
New Orleans, Louisiana
Grants, Fellowships and Awards:
2012-2013 Visiting Scholar, Woods Institute for the Environment, Stanford University,
Stanford, California
1995-1997 Research Scholar, Center for the Study of Women, University of California-Los
Angeles
1995 University of California-Irvine, Faculty Career Development Award for Travel
and Research in Colombia
1992 University of Wisconsin-Madison, Chancellor’s Faculty Award for Outstanding
Service to the University
1992 “Feminist Theory and the New Economic Sociology,“ University of Wisconsin-
Madison International Studies Program and Global Studies Institute Research
Award Sponsored through the John T. and Catherine D. MacArthur Foundation
1992 “Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Gender and Economic
Restructuring: Gender, Ethnic Identity, and Territoriality on Colombia’s Pacific
Coast,” Graduate School Research Award, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1989-1990 “Gender, Restructuring and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin America and the
Caribbean,” University of Wisconsin-Madison International Studies Program and
Women’s Studies Research Center Research Award
1989-1993 “Farm Family Households in the Global Assemblyline: Industrial Restructuring
and the Participation of Wisconsin Farm Family Members in On and Off- Farm
Industrial Assembly Work,” USDA Agricultural Experiment Station, Hatch
Project, University of Wisconsin-Madison

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1989-1993 “Old Structures, New Strategies: Agro-Industrial Export Diversification and the
Changing Structures of Coffee Production in Colombia and Costa Rica,”
University of Wisconsin-Madison NAVE Fund of the Latin American Studies
Program and the International Agriculture Program
1986-1987 Fulbright-Hayes Commission Doctoral Research Grants Program for Field
Research on Rural Women’s Participation in Industrial Assembly Work in the
Informal Sector
1986-1987 The Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Research Fellowship for Above
Research (Concurrent to Fulbright)
1983-1988 Full Tuition Doctoral Fellowship, The Johns Hopkins University
1984 Central American and Caribbean Studies Program of the School for Advanced
International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University Pre-doctoral Summer Field
Research Fellowship on Women’s Informal Industrial Labor in Rural Colombia
1983 Latin American Program of the Woodrow Wilson Center for International
Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, Summer Research Fellowship for Research on
the Caribbean Basin Initiative and the Impact of the United States Sugar Quota
Program on the Colombian and Dominican Sugar Industries
1981-1982 The Inter-American Foundation Masters Learning Fellowship on Social Change
for Field Research on Afro-Colombian Women as Agents for Social Change in
the North Cauca Valley of Colombia
1980 Charles Del Mar Foundation and The Johns Hopkins University Summer
Language Fellowship for Study at the Javeriana University, Bogota, Colombia
Research Experience:
2012-Present Visiting Scholar, “Regulatory Innovation to Promote Integrated Water and
Energy Resource Efficiency and Demand Management,” Woods Institute for the
Environment, Stanford University, Stanford, California.
1995 Principal Investigator, “Dissassembling the Generic Maquila Woman:
Engendering the Political Economy of Economic Restructuring in Southern
Colombia,” Faculty Career Development Grants Program, University of
California-Irvine
1992-93 Principal Investigator, “Gender, Ethnic Identity, and Territorial Rights on
Colombia’s Pacific Coast: A Case Study of the Social and Ecological Context of
the Economic Reincorporation of the Timbiqui River Region into the World-
Economy,” Travel and Research Assistant funded by the Graduate School,
University of Wisconsin-Madison
1991-1993 Extramural Co-Principal Investigator, “Comparative Perspectives on Gender,
Industrial Restructuring and the State in East Asia and Latin America,” the
University of California’s Pacific Rim Research Program

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1990-1992 Principal Investigator, “Gender, Restructuring and the Neo-Liberal State in Latin
America and the Caribbean,” University of Wisconsin-Madison Women’s
Studies Research Center and the International Studies Program
1989-1993 Principal Investigator, Comparative International Research on the Informal
Sector and Industrial Restructuring on the Informal Sector and Industrial
Restructuring, “Farm Family Households in the Global Assembly-line: Industrial
Restructuring and the Participation of Wisconsin Farm Family Members in On
and Off-Farm Industrial Assembly Work,” USDA Agricultural Experiment
Station, Madison, Wisconsin
1989-1993 Principal Investigator, “Old Structures, New Strategies: Agro-Industrial Export
Diversification and the Changing Structures of Coffee Production in Colombia
and Costa Rica,” Latin American Studies Program and the International
Agriculture Program, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Spring, 1988 Research Associate for Ford Foundation-funded project to study Hispanic
Women in the U.S. Garment and Electronic Industries, Maria Patricia Fernandez-
Kelly and Saskia Sassen, Principal Investigators
1986-1987 Principal Investigator, Rural Women’s Participation in Industrial Assembly
Work in the Informal Sector in Colombia, Fulbright-Hayes Doctoral Dissertation
Grants Program and the Inter-American Foundation Doctoral Research Program
1984-1986 Research Assistant, Longitudinal Study of the Adaptation Process of (Mariel)
Cuban and Haitian Immigrants to the United States in 1980, National Science
Foundation, Alejandro Portes, Principal Investigator
Summer, 1984 Principal Investigator, Initial Research on Women’s Informal Sector Industrial
Labor in Rural Colombia, Central American and Caribbean Studies Program of
the School for Advanced International Studies, The Johns Hopkins University
Summer, 1983 Principal Investigator, Comparative Study of the Impact of the Caribbean Basin
Initiative and U.S. Sugar Quotas on the Labor Demands of the Colombian and
Dominican Republic Sugar Industries, The Smithsonian Institutions, Woodrow
Wilson Center for International Scholars, Latin American Program
Professional Consulting and Adjunct Teaching:
2012-present Director (Consultant), Water Energy Research Initiative, Water in the West-joint
Program of Woods Institute for the Environment and the Precourt Energy
Institute, Stanford University, Stanford , Ca.
2004-2007 JLM Associates, Inc., New York, New York, Consulting Editor, Writer, and
Survey Designer
2004-2007 POC-IT Center, The Johns Hopkins University Medical Institutions, Baltimore,
Maryland, Consulting Editor and Writer

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2003 Department of Women’s Studies, University of Nevada-Las Vegas,
Undergraduate Course: Gender, Race, and Class: Journeys From the
Intersections to the Borderlands of Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Sexual
Identities
2002-2003 MWH Engineering, Las Vegas Regional Office, Proposal Development
Consultant and Consulting Technical Editor and Writer
2002-2004 Southern Nevada Water Authority, Resources Division-Social, Economic and
Political Contexts of Water Resource Management and Environmental
Sustainability in the Colorado River Basin of Mexico: An Analysis of Regional
Water Rights and Municipal Water Planning in the North Baja and Sonoran
States of Mexico to Evaluate the Potential Affects of Lower Colorado River
Basin Water Management on Threatened and Endangered Species of the Cienega
de Santa Clara and Alto Golfo Biosphere Reserve
2002 Clark County Public Education Foundation, Program Development and Grants
Cultivation for the Clark County School Leadership Initiative
1996-1997 Cultural Affairs Division, Clark County Department of Parks and Recreation,
Institutional Capacity Building and Grants Development to Support the
Establishment of the Las Vegas Wash Wetlands Park Environmental Education
Center
1996 Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Community Center, HIV Prevention Grants
Development and Preparation Consultant
1992-1995 Inter-American Foundation, Judge for the Masters Fellowship Competition for
Research on Social Change and Grassroots Development in Latin America
1986 Inter-American Foundation, Southern Cone Division, Evaluation of On-going
Social Development Projects in Argentina and Chile
1986 J. Snow, Inc., Associate Researcher for Project to Develop Statistical Models of
the Principal Causes of Child Mortality in the Dominican Republic
1983 Maxima Corporation and the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Developed
Annotated Bibliography on Women’s and Infant’s Health Status and Nutrition in
the U.S.
Pro Bono :
2004-Present President (2004-2012) and Director, The Terraces at Emery Station Homeowners
Association Board of Directors, Emeryville, California
2002 Environmental Education Program Development Advisor, Outside Las Vegas
Foundation, Las Vegas, Nevada
2001 Founding Member, Charter Advisory Committee, Clark High School Academy
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2000 Member, Community Advisory Committee, Women’s Studies Program,
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
1997-1998 Chair, Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights Taskforce, American Civil Liberties Union,
Las Vegas Nevada
1996-1997 Gay and Lesbian Community Center of Southern Nevada, Organizational
Development and Fund-raising Consultant, Center Board of Directors
1992 Grupo Mujer Cimarrona, Cali, Colombia, Assisted women in nascent non-profit
organization of African-Colombian maroon women in planning future activities
and strategies addressing the ecological, economic, and social challenges
affecting the Pacific Coast region
1990-91 Instituto Latinomerica de Services Legales Alternativos, Bogota, Colombia,
Advised Director and Director of Legal Services Program for Women on various
approaches to confronting the challenges faced by women workers in the context
of regional economic restructuring in the Latin American and Caribbean regions
1986-87 Centro de Ayuda de la Mujer y el Infante, Cali, Colombia, Trained and assisted
Center staff in proposal preparation and project reporting for submission to U.S.-
based and multilateral funding agencies for women’s health, legal, and economic
assistance projects
Professional Affiliation and Activities:
Offices and Professional Associations:
2010-present Water and Energy Advisory Committee, California Sustainability Alliance
2009-present Member, Association of Women in Water, Energy, and the Environment
1997 Advisory Board, Fondo de Documentacion Mujer y Genero, Universidad
Nacional, Bogota, Colombia
1992-1994 Taskforce on the Status of Women, Latin American Studies Association (Chair,
Sub-Committee on Feminist Partnerships in Research in the Americas Project)
1993-1994 Selection Committee for the Sally Hacker Outstanding Dissertation Award, Sex
and Gender Section, American Sociological Association
1991-1994 Executive Council, Political Economy in the World-System Section of the
American Sociological Association
1990-1993 Rural Sociological Society Task Force on Persistent Poverty, Sub-Group on
Rural Labor Markets and Work Structures
1990-1991 Program Committee, Rural Sociological Society 1991 Annual Meetings,
Columbus Ohi
1990-1991 Nominations Committee, Political Economy in the World-System Section of the
American Sociological Association
Past and Present Principal Professional Association Affiliations:

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American Sociological Association
Sections: Political Economy of the World-System; Sex and
Gender; Race and Ethnicity; and Environmental Sociology
Latin American Studies Association
Reviewer/Editorial Consultant:
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF SOCIOLOGY, GENDER AND SOCIETY,
SIGNS, SOCIOLOGIAL FORUM, SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY,
SOCIETY AND NATURAL RESOURCES, Cornell University Press, State
University of New York Press, and University of Nebraska Press
Board of Advisory Editors, SOCIOLOGICAL QUARTERLY, 1990-1993
Research Proposal and Tenure/Promotion Reviews:
National Science Foundation, Behavioral Sciences Division
U. S. Department of Agriculture, Small Business Innovation Research Program
San Francisco State University, Department of Sociology
University of California-Irvine Major Activities:
1995 Member, Inter-Disciplinary Studies Sub-Committee to Develop Structure and
Content of Proposed Ph.D. in Genders/Sexualities, Race/Ethnicities, and Cultures
(Obtained grants to support graduate and undergraduate curriculum
diversification and faculty development to support new Ph.D. Program)
1995-1996 Curriculum Development, Developed Core Course Proposal for Latin American
Studies B. A. Minor Program for Faculty Senate
1995 Member, UCI Women’s Studies Governance Document Committee, Drafted and
ushered through approval Program Governance Restructuring Document
University of Wisconsin-Madison Activities and Service:
1992-1993 Convener, Faculty and Graduate Student Research Group, “Feminist Theory and
the Social, Spatial, and Ecological Terrains of World-Economic Restructuring”
1991-1993 Member, Minority Relations Committee, College of Agriculture and Life
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1992 Member, Committee to Design Bachelor of Science Program in International
Rural Sociology
1990-1993 Member and Co-Founder, Sociology of Gender Program, Department of
Sociology
1990-1992 Member, Executive Steering Committee of the Eugene Havens Center for the
Study of Social Change
1990-1993 Alternate Faculty Senator, Department of Rural Sociology
1989-1993 Joint Program Appointment, Women’s Studies Program
(Member, Nominations Committee for Program Chair; Two Search and Screen
Committees for International Women’s Studies faculty positions; Women’s
Studies Research Committee; Co-founder, Global Feminist Partnerships
Program)
1988-1993 Member, Social and Economic Change Program, Department of Sociology
1988-1993 Member, Executive Committee of the Latin American and Iberian Studies
Program (Member, Sub-Committee to Administer the Title VI Foreign Language
Fellowship Program)
1988-1993 Member, Executive Committee of the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences
International Agriculture Program and Natural Resource and International
Agricultural Development Lecture Series Selection Committee
Among Courses Taught:
Gender, Race, and Class: Journeys from the Intersections to the Borderlands of
Gender, Race/Ethnicity, Class, and Sexual Identities (Undergraduate)
Social and Spatial Organization of Economic Restructuring: Comparative
International Perspectives (Graduate Seminar)
Introduction to Rural Sociology (Undergraduate)
The Political Economy and Ecology of Gender and World Development
(Graduate Seminar)
Comparative International Perspectives on Gender, Race and Class in Rural
Economies (Undergraduate)
The Sociology of Gender (Undergraduate)
Theories of Social Change (Undergraduate)
“Third World” Studies (Undergraduate)

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Additional Honors and Awards:
1978 Cum Laude
1978 Meredith College, Sarah M. Lemmon History and Political Science Achievement
Award
1977 Meredith College, Student Development Leadership Award
Languages: Spanish-Professionally Certified/Written and Spoken Proficiency-Excellent