Ignacio
Valero
Ignacio
Valero is Dean of the School of Fine Arts at the California College of Arts
and Crafts, as well as an Associate Professor. From 1996 until 1999 Valero
served as an Assistant Professor of Humanities and Sciences at CCAC, and
from 1995 to 1996 was a lecturer and graduate instructor of the aspects
of race, ideology, economics, and minority struggles in a majority culture
in the African-American Studies Department at the University of California
at Berkeley. From 1992 until 1994, Valero was a graduate instructor of environmental
issues and bioethics at the Environmental Science, Policy and Management
Department of the University of California at Berkeley. He has been a lecturer
at Javeriana Jesuit University in Bogota, Universidad de los Andes in Bogota,
and the University of Florida at Gainesville.
In
addition to extensive consultant work in environmental and development affairs,
Valero has served as Presidential Advisor Expert Commission for the Writing
of the New National Constitution for Bogota, Colombia (1990-1991); Deputy Director
General of The National Institute of Environment and Natural Resources (1986-1990);
Latin American Coordinator for the International Center for Environmental Education
of the United Nations Environment Program in Madrid (1977-1981), Chief of Planning/Chief
of Rural Development and Resource Protection at The National Institute of Environment
and Natural Resources (1973-1975), and Research Associate in Human Resources,
Technology, and Higher Education at the Colombian Science Foundation in Bogota
(1971-1973).
Valero
is also a member of many volunteer political action and community service organizations,
and has been professionally affiliated with over a dozen environmental, anthropological,
economic and sociological activism associations. He has published scores of
books and articles and has been the recipient of numerous awards, including
the Outstanding Teaching Award at the University of California at Berkeley (1994),
the Chancellor’s Dissertation Fellowship at the University of California at
Berkeley (1992), a Doctorate Fellowship at UC Berkeley (1982-83), a Fellowship
at the Centre d’Etudes Industrielles/Interntaional Management Institute in Geneva
(1979), and a Technical Overseas Fellowship in the Netherlands (1977).
Valero
earned his B.S. in Economics and sociology (transfer from Economics at Universidad
National de Colombia) at the Southwest Missouri State University at Springfield,
his M.A.T. in Sociology, Latin American Studies, and Educational Psychology
from the University of Florida at Gainesville, and his Ph.D. in Latin American
Studies, Environmental Studies, Development and Technology, Public Policy, Cultural
Geography, and History of Thought at the University of California at Berkeley.