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Laura Talamante is a Professor of History at California State University Dominguez Hills, where she teaches and guides research on European, French, and Women’s history. She publishes on women, politics and culture, citizenship development, revolutionary geopolitical and geosocial mapping, and proto-feminism in Enlightenment and revolutionary Marseille (https://drlauratalamante.com/). She earned her Ph.D. in History at UCLA, where her, “Les Citoyennes Marseillaises: Women and Political Change during the French Revolution,” won the Mary Wollstonecraft Dissertation Award. She has received numerous honors and awards, including residency fellowships at the Brown Foundation Dora Maar House in Ménerbes, France and the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France, a National Endowment for the Humanities Landmarks of American History and Culture grant, and two French American Cultural Exchange Tournée Festival of French Films grants, among others.

Dr. Talamante serves as the outgoing Chair of the Academic Senate and current CSU Statewide Senator, Co-Chair of the Gender Equity Task Force, and Chair of the History Department. She is an alumna of the HERS Institute, a Higher Education Leadership Development Program. She was awarded the Presidential Advisor of the Year in 2013 and in 2018 the CSUDH Excellence in Service award. She is energized collaborating across colleges and divisions, most recently including innovative anti-racism and leadership programming with the It Takes a Village series and the CSUDH Women’s Leadership Workshops, is an alumna of the HERS Institute, a Higher Education Leadership Development Program. Women’s leadership development research, publishing, and programming is her current focus.

Dr. Vanessa Lopez-Littleton is an Associate Professor of Public Administration and Nonprofit Management and Chair of the Department of Health, Human Services, and Public Policy at California State University, Monterey Bay. Dr. Lopez-Littleton’s area of expertise is health equity and seeking solutions to problems rooted in connections between health and neighborhood factors. She researches the structural causes of health inequities, with a focus on naming, measuring, and addressing the impacts of social, economic, and political influences on health and well-being.

Dr. Lopez-Littleton is the Chair-Elect of ASPA Section on Democracy and Social Justice, an Executive Committee member of the ASPA Section on Health and Human Services Administration, Vice Chair and Chair-Elect for the ASPA San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, and a member of the ASPA COVID-19 Pandemic Task Force. Dr. Lopez-Littleton holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Public Affairs with an emphasis in health services management from the University of Central Florida. She holds a Master of Public Administration degree from Louisiana State University and a Bachelor of Science in Nursing from Northwestern State University. Dr. Lopez-Littleton is a U.S. Army veteran and registered nurse.