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 Since 1967. AILEEN C. HERNANDEZ has been President of Aileen C. Hemandez Associates, an urban consulting firm based in San Francisco which works with major American companies, governmental agencies and grassroots organizations on a wide variety of issues facing cities - housing, education, economic development, transportation, etc. She appears frequently on television, radio and the lecture circuit discussing race and gender relations, human rights, and civic activism.In 1965, she was appointed by President Lyndon Johnson as a Commissioner of the first Equal Employment Opportunity Commission created by Title 7 of Civil Rights Act of 1964. She was Assistant Chief of the Division of Fair Employment Practices for the State of California from 1962 through 1965, and the Education and Public Relations Director for the Pacific Coast Region of the International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU) prior to that. A native of Brooklyn, New York, she migrated to California in 1951 when she was assigned to Los Angeles as an organizer for the garment union. In her eleven years with the ILGWU, she worked her way up to the regional post. Ms. Hemandez has been active in both the civil rights and the women's rights movements. She was the second National President of the National Organization for Women (NOW), and a founder of Black Women Organized for Action, Bay Area Black Women United and Black Women Stirring the Waters in the San Francisco Bay Area. She served on the Board of the Bay Area Urban League, is a life member of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Chair of the Coalition for Economic Equity in San Francisco and Chair of the California Women's Agenda (CAWA), a statewide group bringing the UN Platform for Action, adopted in Beijing, China in September 1995, to the grassroots of California. She serves on numerous boards and commissions at the national and local levels. She is Vice-Chair of the National Urban Coalition; Chair Emerita of the Board of Citizens Trust, (formerly Working Assets Common Holdings) a socially responsible investment company whose board she chaired for 8 years; a member of the University of California San Francisco Foundation and a member of the Board of Overseers of the Wellesley Centers for Research on Women. She is also on the Boards of the Meiklejohn Civil Liberties Institute, the Center for Women Policy Studies, and the Citizens' Commission on Civil Rights. She is a past President of the Board of the Center for the Common Good, an advisor to the Campaign to Abolish Poverty, Vice Chair of the National Advisory Council of the American Civil Liberties Union and a member of the Advisory Councils of the Girls After School Academy (GASA), the Women's Intercultural Network, Leadership California and Alumnae Resources (the last four organizations focus on expanding opportunities for women and girls). She is a life trustee of The Urban Institute, a Board member of the California Commission on Campaign Financing and the Center for Governmental Studies and was on the Advisory Board to the Program for Research on Immigration Policy, jointly conducted by the Rand Corporation and The Urban Institute. She serves on the advisory panels of Continuum (an AIDS counseling and service group) and the Foundation for Women Resources, which is developing a National Women's Museum and Institute for the Future in Dallas, Texas. In 1999, she was named by Mayor Willie L. Brown, Jr. to the San Francisco Independent Task Force on Affirmative Action in Public Contracting to develop recommendations for improving the city's program. She has traveled extensively throughout the United States and the world, including Europe, Latin America, China and Africa. As a member of a privately funded study Commission, she toured Southern Africa to study apartheid and its relationship to American policy-making; in 1981, the Commission issued a widely acclaimed report. South Africa: Time Running Out. In May 1999, she coordinated a series of discussion groups for a western region planning meeting on U.S./Africa relations co-sponsored by the National Summit on Africa and the World Affairs Council of Northern California. She has been the recipient of numerous awards for her community service. The Center for Women Policy Studies paid tribute to her as a recipient of its 1989 Wise Woman Award; in 1995, she received the Silver Spur Award from the San Francisco Planning and Urban Research Association; in 1997, the WAVE Award (Women of Achievement, Vision and Excellence) from Alumnae Resources; and in 1991 the Praisesinger Award from the NAACP. She is a magna cum laude Sociology and Political Science graduate of Howard University in Washington, D.C.; earned a Master's Degree in Government, with highest honors, from California State University at Los Angeles, and received an Honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Southern Vermont College. She was 1993 Regents Scholar in Residence at the University of California, Santa Barbara and was selected as the 1993 Tish Sommers Lecturer by the Institute for Health and Aging of the University of California, San Francisco. She has also taught courses at UC Berkeley and San Francisco State University. Business Address: 818 -47th Avenue, San Francisco, CA 94121 E-mail: This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it Phone: (415) 752-4506 Fax: (415) 752-4509 (Revised: February 2000) |