UCLA and UC Well Represented on New Redistricting Commission
In 2008, voters approved taking redistricting legislative seats after the 2010 Census away from the legislature and gave the job to a citizens redistricting commission. In the recent election, they rejected abolishing the commission and gave it the additional task of redistricting congressional seats.
Eight commissioners have so far been selected through a complicated process. UCLA and UC are well represented, as the report below from the Rose Institute at Claremont indicates.
First 8 CA Commissioners are a Well-Educated Group
The first 8 people chosen for California’s Citizens Redistricting Commission are a well-educated group. All 8 hold both a bachelor and a graduate degree.
Three hold MBA’s: Dai (Stanford), Yao (Claremont’s Drucker School) and Barabba (UCLA).
Three hold JD degrees: Raya (UC Davis), Forbes (Vanderbilt) and Filkins-Webber (Whittier).
Commissioner Galambos-Malloy holds a Masters in Community Planning (MCP) from UC Berkeley. And Kuo has a Ph.D. from UCLA in “Higher Educational and Organizational Change.”
Their undergraduate degrees are from UC Berkeley (Dai), Northwestern (Kuo), USC (Raya), UCLA (Forbes), La Sierra (Galambos Malloy), Cal State Northridge (Barabba), UC Riverside (Filkins Webber), and SUNY Buffalo (Yao).
In our running competition among the college systems, UC is well ahead as five of the eight earned either an undergraduate or graduate degree from a UC school.