Jorge Ruiz de Velasco
Jorge Ruiz de Velasco is Associate Director, and Director of Education at the Chief Justice Earl Warren Institute on Race, Ethnicity and Diversity. The focus of his work is on the study and promotion of change in public schools and community colleges, the implications of education reform for disadvantaged students, education law and policy, and the effect of immigration on schools and communities. Prior to his Berkeley appointment, Jorge served as Director of the Institute for Research on Education Policy and Practice at the Stanford School of Education. He has also served as a Senior Program Officer at both the James Irvine Foundation and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, as a Senior Research Associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC, and as a civil rights attorney for the U.S. Department of Education’s Office for Civil Rights (OCR) in Washington. His principal OCR assignments were in civil enforcement matters involving elementary and secondary schools and the evaluation of magnet school desegregation plans for the Department. Jorge holds a Ph.D. in Political Science and an M.A. in Education Administration and Policy Analysis from Stanford University, a J.D. from the Boalt Hall School of Law at the University of California, Berkeley, and an A.B., cum laude, in Government from Harvard University. Jorge is a member of the California Bar.