Welcome to the official site for the California-Mexico Studies Center !

The California-Mexico Studies Center (CMSC) is a 501(c)(3) non-profit whose mission is to research, develop, promote, and establish policies and programs between higher educational institutions and cultural organizations that will enhance the teaching, mobility and exchange of faculty, students, and professionals between California and the U.S. with Mexico and other nations in the Western Hemisphere.

CMS Center was founded by California State University Long Beach Professor Armando Vazquez-Ramos in 2010 as an extension of the California-Mexico Project that he has led since 1998 at the CSULB Chicano and Latino Studies department.

Armando Vazquez-Ramos President & CEO
The California-Mexico Studies Center, Inc.
1551 N. Studebaker Road
Long Beach, CA 90815
Office: (562) 430-5541
Cell: (562) 972-0986

Email: CaliforniaMexicoCenter@gmail.com

CMSC BOARD OF DIRECTORS

Armando Vázquez Ramos, President and CEO
Co-Founder, Chicano & Latino Studies Department
California-Mexico Project and Ethnic Studies Initiative Coordinator
California State University Long Beach
Long Beach, California
Gonzalo Santos, Vice-President
CMSC Central California Region
Professor, Sociology Department
California State University Bakersfield
Bakersfield, California
Primitivo Rodriguez, Vice-President
CMSC Mexico City and Guadalajara Region
Journalist and Co-Founder of the Coalition for Political
Rights of Mexicans Abroad
Joe Dieringer, Treasurer and Secretary
Rancho Cucamonga, CA
Jose Francisco Roman, Vice-President, Mexico Central Region
Professor, History Department, Zacatecas Autonomous University
Dr. Juan Manuel Sandoval, Member
Coordinator, Seminario Permanente de Estudios Chicanos
y de Fronteras (DEAS-INAH) Mexico City, Mexico
Dra. Ana Uribe, Member
Profesor, Universidad de Colima
Colima, Mexico and Long Beach, California

STAFF

Luz Vazquez-Ramos, Special Programs & Operations Director
Master of Public Administration (MPA) – MA, International Education Management – Middlebury Institute of International Studies at Monterey
Bachelor of Arts, BA – Chicano and Latino Studies – CSU Long Beach

Email: luz@calmexcenter.org | Biography
Joe Dieringer, Chief Financial Officer
Rancho Cucamonga, CA