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. 

For the past 30 years, William (Bill) Hendricks has been a Professor of Photography at Ventura College in Ventura, California. Driven by an unsettled curiosity, Hendricks views photography as a way of reducing daily chaos into a few organized and meaningful moments.

As both a photographer and an educator, his work has taken him around the world with an array of clients and personalities. In the past 25 years Mr. Hendricks has been able to work in Central & South America, Europe, Africa the Middle and Far-East. His work has been published in the pages of Cosmopolitan, Harper's Bazaar, Los Angeles Magazine, People Magazine, Architectural Digest, TV Guide and more. He has also worked with, and photographed celebrities; Jaclyn Smith, Tina Turner, Kenny Loggins, Valerie Harper, Dennis Weaver, Priscilla Presley and Jacque Cousteau.

His work has been exhibited throughout the United States with solo exhibitions in Havana, Cuba and Seoul, Korea.

In 2006, Mr. Hendricks was invited by his Holiness, The Dalai Lama, to Northern India to document and participate in the teachings of the Buddhist Religion.

In 2007, Mr. Hendricks was invited by the Nigerian Government along with the Ogbechie family to document the funeral ceremonies of Chief and patriarch Francis Osenweniwe Ogbechie.

In 2009-2010, Mr. Hendricks was in Havana, Cuba to photograph the little-known religion of Palo Monte. The secret and sacred religion of Santeria.

In 2011-2012, Mr. Hendricks made his film debut as a producer and director of the documentary, “The Cuba Dance Project”. This is a film that follows three American ballet dancers as they travel to Cuba to pursue their love of dance. It's a cross-cultural journey that finds its roots in the fabric and fundamentals of art and community.

December 2013, Hendricks was honored by the mayor of Ventura with the Mayor's Arts Educator of the Year award.

December 2016,  Hendricks received the National Arts Recognition Award, from the Ventura County Arts Council.

 2020, Mr. Hendricks completed PROOF. A fifteen year collaboration with Cuban writer Orlando Hernandez. This project is expected to be released to the public in 2021.