Please join Speaker Núñez on May 2, 2008 as he recognizes Pitzer’s first Chicano Latino Scholarship Benefit honoree, Dr. Fernando Torres-Gil, for his outstanding academic and social service accomplishments at the local and national levels.
His academic accomplishments parallel his extensive government and public policy experience, including being appointed by President Clinton as the first Assistant Secretary for Aging in the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. Dr. Torres-Gil has also served as the vice president of the Los Angeles City Planning Commission (1989-93) and as a member of the Harbor (1997-2001) and Taxi Commissions (1996-97) for the City of Los Angeles. Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa appointed him to the Board of Airport Commissioners and he was previously appointed by former Governor Gray Davis to the Governor’s Blue Ribbon Task Force on Veterans’ Homes and by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger as a delegate to the 2005 White House Conference on Aging. |
Professor Torres-Gil, Acting Dean of the UCLA School of Public Affairs, is an expert in the fields of health and long-term care, the politics of aging, social policy, ethnicity and disability. He is the author of six books and more than eighty articles and book chapters.
