Department First Name Last Name Title fit Bio Antonia Hernández is president and chief executive officer of the California Community Foundation. In that capacity, Ms. Hernández oversees all operational and programmatic aspects of the foundation's activities. The California Community Foundation works to strengthen the capacity of the nonprofit sector in Los Angeles County so they can more effectively work toward improved quality of life for all Angelenos. Previously, Ms. Hernández was president and general counsel of the Mexican American California Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), a national nonprofit Community litigation and advocacy organization dedicated to protecting the civil rights Foundation of the nation's Latinos through the legal system, community education, Antonia Hernandez President Justice and research and policy initiatives. Sandra R. Hernández, M.D., is chief executive officer of The San Francisco Foundation. She previously served as the director of public health for the City and County of San Francisco. She currently serves on the boards of the Council on Foundations, Lucile Packard Children's Hospital, and Corporation for Supportive Housing. She is also a trustee of the Western Asbestos Settlement Trust, and a member of the Institute of Medicine’s Committee on Implementation of Antiviral Medication Strategies for an Influenza Pandemic. Her prior affiliations include President Clinton's Advisory Commission on Consumer Protection and Quality in the Healthcare Industry, The Pew Commission on Environmental Health, Harvard's John F. Kennedy School of Government Executive Session on Philanthropy, American Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR), and San Francisco Health and National Alliance for Hispanic Health. She is an assistant clinical professor Foundation Human at UCSF School of Medicine and maintains an active clinical practice at San Sandra Hernandez President Services Francisco General Hospital in the AIDS clinic. Eric Garcetti (born 1971) is an American politician, an elected member of the Los Angeles City Council and is its current President of the Council. He represents the 13th District. He is the son of former Los Angeles county district attorney Gil Garcetti. Garcetti taught public policy, diplomacy, and world affairs at the University of Southern California and Occidental College prior to his election. In 1998, the Rockefeller Foundation selected him as a Next Generation Leadership Fellow. Garcetti attended high school at Harvard-Westlake School and received a B.A. from Columbia University, where he was President of the St. Anthony Hall literary society, and M.I.A. in International Affairs from School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University. He studied as a Rhodes Scholar at Oxford University and also studied at the London School of Economics. He is an avid photographer, jazz pianist and composer. He lives in Echo Park with his partner of eleven years, Amy Elaine Wakeland. He was elected to the Los Angeles City Council in 2001 and reelected in 2005. As a City Councilman, Los Angeles he has made housing and economic development, the environment, City Council Office of community engagement, neighborhood beautification, and international Eric Garcetti President Urban Policy diplomacy his main issues. First elected in 2000, Congresswoman Hilda L. Solis is serving her fourth term in the U.S. House of Representatives. She represents California's 32nd Congressional District, which includes portions of East Los Angeles and the San Gabriel Valley. Prior to her election to Congress, Solis served eight years in the California state legislature. In August 2000, Solis became the first woman to receive the John F. Kennedy Profile in Courage Award for her pioneering work on environmental justice issues in California. In 2003, she became the first Latina appointed to the powerful Committee on Energy and Commerce where she is the Vice Chair of the Environment and Hazardous Materials Subcommittee and a member of the Health and Telecommunications Subcommittees. She is also a member of the House Committee on Natural Resources. In March 2007, Solis was named a member of the newly created House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming. Solis is Vice Chair of the Democratic Steering & Policy Committee and serves as a Senior Whip, as well as a Regional Whip for Southern California. She is also serving her third term as the Chair of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus' Task Force on Health Congresswom and the Environment. In 2007, Solis was appointed to the Commission on an, D-Los Energy, Security and Cooperation in Europe, as well as the Mexico – United States Hilda Solis Angeles Labor, HHS Interparliamentary Group. Linda Sanchez was born January 28, 1969 in Orange, California, earned her undergraduate degree at the University of California, Berkeley and in 1995 her Juris Doctor degree at the University of California, Los Angeles, and was an attorney specializing in labor law prior to her public service career. She is the sister of Representative Loretta Sanchez, making Linda and Loretta Sanchez the only sister pair to ever serve in Congress. In 1998 Sanchez joined the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 441 and became a compliance officer. In 2000 she was unanimously elected to the position of Executive Secretary/Treasurer of the Orange County Central Labor Council, AFL-CIO. Sanchez started her political career after a new 39th Congressional District was created following the 2000 Census. Following Hurricane Katrina in late August 2005, President George W. Bush suspended the Davis-Bacon Act, a 1934 law which requires government contractors to pay prevailing wages. Linda Congresswom Sánchez was a very vocal critic of the suspension, and lead the fight to an, D-Los Justice, reverse it. Sánchez eventually won, as Bush reverted himself on October Linda Sanchez Angeles Labor, HHS 26 California State Senator Gloria Romero was elected to the 24th Senate District in 2001, representing East Los Angeles and the greater San Gabriel Valley. As the first woman Majority Leader, Romero has broken through California’s glass ceiling and has served as a role model for generations of young men and women committed to public service. As a Legislator, she has quickly earned the reputation as a groundbreaking leader of education reform and a tireless advocate for closing the California achievement gap and increasing educational access. Through her State Senate dedicated work, Romero has solidified her position as an education Majority Education, trailblazer and one of California’s most influential voices in public Gloria Romero Leader Justice education policy. Martha M. Escutia was first elected to the California Legislature in November 1992 to represent the heavily Latino 50th Assembly District in southeast Los Angeles County. In 1998 she was elected to the California Senate and now represents the 30th Senate District. As a freshman Senator, Escutia was honored to receive the chairmanship of the Senate Health and Human Services Committee, and in 2000, she was the first Latina woman appointed as chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee. As an Assemblywoman, Escutia became the first woman to chair the Assembly Judiciary Committee. Senator Escutia's varied accomplishments are highlighted by landmark legislation protecting our health and the environment, improving opportunities for education, protecting the rights of consumers and workers. She established the first-ever, Children’s Environmental Health Protection Act of 1999 to ensure that California’s children are protected from unhealthy levels of air contaminants. Other notable healthcare policy accomplishments include the development of a Judiciary, comprehensive service center for women with HIV/AIDS and a bold step Former HHS, forward for patients' rights by improving access to specialists in managed California Domestic care. Her environmental protection legislation addresses issues such as Martha Escutia State Senator Policy Council hazardous liquid pipelines and the state's ever-increasing waste tires. Of Puerto Rican descent, he is a supporter of Puerto Rican independence (although not necessarily of the Puerto Rican Independence Party, PIP), the Vieques movement, and other progressive causes. He is a member of Secretary of the US Congressional Progressive Caucus. Gutiérrez has assembled Labor in support from a broad section of Chicagoans, including Mexican Americans Tom Perez Maryland Labor and Puerto Ricans. Vilma Martinez joined Munger, Tolles & Olson LLP as a partner in 1982. Her practice focuses on federal and state court litigation and employment counseling. Ms. Martinez has spent the last 25 years advising and defending corporate employers in labor and employment matters. Vilma honed her understanding of employment issues in the areas of diversity, discrimination, EEO compliance and Title VII compliance prior to joining the firm. She served as President and General Counsel of the Mexican- American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF) for nine years. Prior to that, she was a litigation associate at New York's Cahill, Gordon & Partner, EEOC General Reindel, specializing in employment discrimination matters. She started Munger, Counsel, her career as a staff attorney with the NAACP Legal Defense Fund in 1967, Vilma Martinez Tolles, Olson Personnel where she worked on a number of early Title VII cases. Fred Alvarez is a partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he heads the firm's employment law