What is that saying? Find a job you love and you'll never work again.  Suffice it to say, I never have to work again.

When I am not teaching my college students, I am hiking, gardening, camping, and homeschooling with my wild and wonderful 12-year-old son.  

After many years in business, Professor Walt Agajanian began a second career as an instructor of History, arriving at Ventura College in 2016. Because of his wide range of life experiences, Professor Agajanian has taught almost every course offered in the History Department at Ventura College. Professor Agajanian has been active in many different student clubs and associations, as an advisor, and has served on multiple committees, including the Diversity in Culture Task Force, and Ventura College History Association. He has given a wide range of presentations both at college events and with public organizations and museums. Professor Agajanian can be found teaching History courses at the main campus, at the Santa Paula East Campus, and Online via Canvas.

Professor Gamboa grew up on the Yakima Reservation located in the Yakima Valley in Washington State.  As a 1st generation college student she earned her B.A in History from Eastern Washington University and M.S in Mexican American Studies from the University of Arizona.  As an undergraduate she worked as an advocate and activist in her community through her M.E.Ch.A leadership, volunteering with the UFW and as treasurer of the Yakima County Voters Registration Project. As a McNair scholar she focused her research on the development of Chicano Studies in the k-12 curriculum. As a graduate student she contributed to research focusing on the undocumented migrant experience in the context of the criminal (in) justice system and health concerns at the Arizona/México Border. She also worked as a researcher under Project EXPORT, on the prevention of drug use among Latino youth and adolescent sexual risk behaviors.  In 2006 Professor Gamboa moved to California were she became the Director for the Boys and Girls Club of Santa Clarita. Her passion in life has been to make a difference through higher education; guiding students in understanding Chicana/o history, self-identity and self-consciousness. Professor Gamboa has been teaching at Ventura College since Spring 2014 and is currently the Chair of the Ethnic Studies Department.