José F. Moreno is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Chicano & Latino Studies at California State University, Long Beach.  Dr. Moreno's area of emphasis is Latino/a education and policy studies.  Born in Guasave, Sinaloa, Mexico and raised in Oxnard, Ca, he received his B.A. in Social Ecology from the University of California, Irvine; Ed.M. from Harvard University; and Ed.D. from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy. 

Prior to joining CSULB, Dr. Moreno served on the faculty in the School of Educational Studies at Claremont Graduate University where he also served as the Research Analyst for the Campus Diversity Initiative Evaluation Resource Project, and Senior Institutional Researcher at Pomona College. Previously, Dr. Moreno served as a Post-Doctoral Scholar in the Division of Education at the University of California, Davis, where he studied the long-term influences of pre-college outreach programs for the nationally recognized Puente Project.  Dr. Moreno's publications include: The Elusive Quest for Equality: 150 Years of Chicano/a Education (Ed.); University Faculty Views About the Value of Diversity on Campus and in the Classroom; and, co-editor with Patricia Gandara of a special issue of The Journal of Educational Policy titled, The Puente Project: Issues & Perspectives on Preparing Latino Youth for Higher Education. His teaching & research interests include: Latino/a Education; Higher Education Policy; Access & Equity; Diversity and Higher Education; Pre-College Outreach Programs; Evaluation Methods; and the Social Context Of Education. He is a past Co-Chair of the Editorial Board of the Harvard Educational Review and researcher for the Harvard University Civil Rights Project.