Armando Navarro, a political scientist, is associate professor of ethnic studies at the University of California, Riverside, and author of Mexican American Youth Organization: Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement. For more than twenty-five years he has been an activist and professional political organizer in California, working with the Mexican-American Political Organization, the Raza Unida Party, Congreso para Pueblo Unidos, the Institute for Social Justice, Californios for Fair Representation, Impacto/2000, and other organizations.
