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Arturo Jimenez

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Arturo Jimenez, J.D., is an affiliate professor in the Chicana/o Studies; and Criminal Justice and Criminology Departments at Metropolitan State University of Denver. He teaches a course Chicanos and the Law where students learn about how the legal system and laws relate to individual community rights, cultural conflict and issues concerning ethnicity. Jimenez areas of expertise include immigration, public education, local/national politics and cross-border Latinx issues.

Jimenez has practiced federal immigration law for over 24 years in Colorado as a bilingual attorney and is a founder of the Immigration Clinic at Catholic Charities in Pueblo. He represents immigrant families for Legal Permanent Residence, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Naturalization, Asylum, Family Petitions, Victim’s Visas and Deportation Defense at the Immigration Law Offices of Arturo Jimenez.

After serving as the President of the Colorado Statewide Parent Coalition from 2000 to 2006, Jimenez was twice elected to the Board of Education for the Denver Public Schools and served from 2007 to 2015.

Jimenez is the author of Dreamers Nightmare: The U.S. War on Immigrant LatinX Children. He earned his bachelor’s in sociology and his juris doctor degree from the University of Colorado in Boulder.

William James Parker III

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William James Parker III, Ph.D., is an adjunct professor in the History Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

James Mejia

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Alex Boodrookas

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Alex Boodrookas, Ph.D., is an assistant professor in the Department of History at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Sheila Rucki

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Sheila Rucki teaches Political Theory, Political Systems & Ideas and International Political Economy at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Norman Provizer

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Retired political science professor Norman Provizer taught American Constitutional Law, Leadership Studies, Leadership & Social Change and American National Government for more than three decades.

He has taught at Metropolitan State University of Denver since 1989.

Provizer has recently written chapters in: The Companion to Franklin D. Roosevelt, Fictional Leaders, Lincoln’s Enduring Legacy, and Leadership Studies: The Dialogue of Disciplines. Additionally, he has co-edited three books on the United States Supreme Court and has published articles in numerous academic journals including White House Studies and The Leadership Quarterly.

Provizer has served as an election analyst for television stations in Denver and Shreveport, La. His op-ed pieces have appeared in The New York Times as well as other newspapers. Under his direction, the Meir Center developed a leadership program for the Hispanic Chamber of Commerce in Denver.

Robert Preuhs

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Robert Preuhs, Ph.D, is a professor and chair of the Political Science Department at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Douglas Mpondi

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Douglas Mpondi is a professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Richard Moeller

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Richard Moeller teaches Politics in the Media, European Politics, Political Systems & Ideas and Intro to International Relations at Metropolitan State University of Denver

He has taught at Metropolitan State University of Denver since 1998.

Moeller is an associate with the Golda Meir Center for Political Leadership and the director of the Model UN Program. Moeller began the Model UN Program at MSU Denver in 1998 and has been active with student preparation and participation since then.

Todd Laugen

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Todd Laugen teaches American History since 1865, methods of teaching social sciences and emergence-modern U.S. 1877–1920 at Metropolitan State University of Denver.

Laugen’s recent publications include “The Gospel of Progressivism: Moral Reform and Labor War in Colorado, 1900–1930,” which details the fight against corporate and political corruption in Colorado during the early 20th century. Recent papers include “Worker Mobilization, Management Resistance: 1920s,” and “Struggles for the Public Interest: Organized Labor and State Mediation in the 1920s.”

He specializes in American history after 1865, including politics, labor, women and the west. As a former high school history and government teacher, Laugen remains interested in history education and the preparation of effective teachers.

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