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Learn more about the Board of Advisors, Faculty Advisory Council, and Staff of the North American Center for Transborder Studies.

Board of Advisors

The Board of Advisors for the North American Center for Transborder Studies is a group of outstanding citizens of the United States, Canada and Mexico who have demonstrated a commitment to the common good of North America, Arizona State University and NACTS. We invite you to click on the names or photos of our board members below for brief biographies.

Mr. Raul Rodriguez Chairman of the Board of Advisors President RMI	Mr. Jack Agrios Officer in the Order of Canada Kennedy Agrios LLP	Mr. Alfonso Aguilar Chief of the Office of Citizenship U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Ambassador Hattie Babbitt Attorney at Law Jennings, Strouss & Salmon, P.L.C.	Dr. Stephen Blank Co-Director North American Transportation Competitiveness Research Council	Mr. Rudy Bustamante Community Relations Officer U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
Dr. Malcolm Cairns Director of Business Research Canadian Pacific Railway	Dr. Rodolfo Cruz Piñeiro Professor and Researcher Department of Population Studies El Colegio de la Frontera Norte	Ambassador Maria de Lourdes Dieck-Assad Dean School of Government, Social Sciences and Humanities Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM)
Dr. Daniel Drache Professor of Political Sciences York University Associate Director Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies	Mr. Duncan Edmonds Chairman McRae Group Executive in Residence Wilfred Laurier University	Dr. Rafael Fernandez de Castro Director Department of International Studies Instituto Tecnológico Autónomo de Mexico (ITAM)
Ms. Christine Frechette Founding President and Executive Director North American Forum on Integration	Mr. Bonsal Glascock President and COO iMallsGlobal	Mr. Jim Grogan President and CEO Loreto Bay Company
Mr. C.A. Howlett Senior Vice President, Public Affairs U.S. Airways	Ms. Tamar Jacoby Senior Fellow The Manhattan Institute for Policy Research	Ambassador John Maisto Former Ambassador of the United States to Venezuela, Nicaragua, and the Organization of America States
Dr. Anne McLellan Academic Director Institute for United States Policy Studies University of Alberta	Dr. Robert A. Pastor Director Center for North American Studies American University	Ambassador Andrés Rozental President Consejo Mexicano de Asuntos Internacionales
Mr. Aaron Shtabsky CEO and Managing Partner Sandy Mountain LLC Venture Capital Company	Mr. Thomas Skancke President and CEO The Skancke Company	Mr. Javier Treviño Senior Vice President of Corporate Communications and Public Affairs CEMEX
Dr. José Luis Valdés-Ugalde Director Centro de Investigaciones sobre America del Norte Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM)	Dr. Carlos Vélez-Ibañez Chair and Professor Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies and Anthropology Arizona State University	Mr. Glenn Williamson CEO and Founder Canada Arizona Business Council
Mr. Raul Yzaguirre Presidential Professor of Practice in Community Development and Civil Rights Arizona State University

Faculty Advisory Council

The North American Center for Transborder Studies is a transdisciplinary research center whose work is reflective of the broad research interests and capabilities of the outstanding Arizona State University faculty members who have committed to work with us.

Francisco Lara-Valencia Chair, Faculty Advisory Council Assistant Professor School of Planning	Daniel Arreola Professor School of Geographical Sciences	Alan Artibise Executive Dean College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Manuel Avalos Associate Vice President Research and Faculty Development Associate Professor Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences	Benjamin Broome Professor Hugh Downs School of Human Communication	Maureen Campesino Assistant Professor College of Nursing and Healthcare Innovation
Felipe Castro Professor Department of Psychology	Evelyn Cruz Director and Associate Clinical Professor Immigration Clinic Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law	Maria Luz Cruz-Torres Professor School of Global Studies
Amira de la Garza Associate Professor Hugh Downs School of Human Communication	Paul Espinosa Professor Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies	Mary Fonow Director Women and Gender Studies Program
Brian Gratton Professor Department of History	Susan Gray Associate Professor Department of History	Subhrajit Guhathakurta Associate Professor School of Planning School of Sustainability
Paul Hirt Associate Professor Department of History	Dirk Hoerder Distinguished Visiting Professor Department of History	Wei Li Associate Professor Asian Pacific American Studies
Arnold Maltz Professor W.P. Carey School of Business	Arthur Mason Assistant Professor School of Justice and Social Inquiry	Dawn McLaren Research Economist JPMorgan Chase Economic Outlook Center
Cecilia Menjivar Associate Professor School of Social and Family Dynamics	Julie Murphy Erfani Associate Professor ASU at the West Campus Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences	Martin Pasqualetti Professor School of Geographical Sciences
David Pijawka Professor School of Planning	Luis Plascencia Assistant Professor ASU at the West Campus Department of Social and Behavioral Sciences	Doris Marie Provine Director School of Justice and Social Inquiry
Mary Romero Professor School of Justice and Social Inquiry	Lee Rodney Canada-U.S. Fulbright Visiting Scholar	Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez Chair Department of Transborder Chicana/o and Latina/o Studies
Mr. Raul Yzaguirre Presidential Professor of Practice in Community Development and Civil Rights Arizona State University

Staff

Rick Van Schoik

Director

Erik Lee

Associate Director

Micah Pappas

Coordinator

Elizabeth Dreeland

Policy and Programs Intern

Garret Halbach

Undergraduate Intern