Dr. Kenneth Monteiro is the Acting Director of the Cesar Chavez Institute; former Dean of the College of the College of Ethnic Studies, the only College of Ethnic Studies in the nation; former University Dean of Human Relations; and, Professor and former chair of the Psychology Department at San Francisco State University.   Before teaching at San Francisco State, he was on faculty at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at Rutgers University at New Brunswick.  Dr. Monteiro received his Ph.D.

Jason Ferreira is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Race & Resistance Studies located within the College of Ethnic Studies at San Francisco State University.  He holds a BA in History from the University of Illinois at Urbana/Champaign (1992) and both an MA and PhD in Comparative Ethnic Studies from the University of California at Berkeley (2003).  He is also a recipient of the University of California President's Postdoctoral Fellowship (2003-2005).