Jesus Salas
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Jesus Salas is the founder of Obreros Unidos, an independent farm labor union established in Wisconsin in 1966 and supported by funding from the AFL-CIO. In the late 1960s he also worked for the United Farm Workers and Cesar Chavez on the UFW Grape Boycott. A native of Crystal City, Texas and former migrant worker, Salas has served as coordinator and board member of United Migrant Opportunity Services (UMOS)Inc., an employment and training program that assists Wisconsin's migrant workers. Salas also has worked in Democratic Party politics in Wisconsin and played a role in the operation of La Raza Unida Party in Wisconsin, and in Crystal City, Texas, where he worked on Economic Development for the party. Salas is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee's School of Education, and received his masters degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Salas has taught social studies courses at Milwaukee Area Technical College since 1987. Salas is a former lecturer at UW-Madison in Chicano Studies and presently teaches an introductory course in Latino Studies at UWM.[1]
He is presently a regent of the University of Wisconsin System.[2]
[edit] References
- ^ Aldon D. Morris, Jane J. Mansbridge (2001), Oppositional Consciousness: The Subjective Roots of Social Protest , University of Chicago Press, ISBN 0226503615
- ^ University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents
