LAGS - Officers

CURRENT OFFICERS

PRESIDENT:

Gary Booher

VICE-PRESIDENT:

Matt Ebiner

TREASURER:

Douglas Goode

SECRETARY:

Rebecca Donegan

COUNCILOR:

Michael Farrell

COUNCILOR:

Kris Jones

COUNCILOR:

Julienne Gard

COUNCILOR/STUDENT REP

Daniel Pearlman

COUNCILOR:

Yuki Konishi

COUNCILOR/WEBMASTER:

Christian Vasquez

COUNCILOR/WEBMASTER:

Cesar Espinosa

PRESIDENT

Gary Booher

Adjunct Geography Instructor, El Camino College

Former Zoning Administrator, Los Angeles City Planning (Retired 2008)

Academic background:

PhD study in Geography, UCLA (not completed)

MS, Geography, Brigham Young University, 1974

BA, Geography, California State University, Long Beach, 1970

Past officer in several other volunteer non-profit organizations

Other interests include travel (to 33 countries on 5 continents) and performing arts.

VICE-PRESIDENT

Matt Ebiner

Matt Ebiner is a past-President of the LAGS and professor of geography at El Camino College in Torrance. Teaching since 1986, he was awarded "Geography Educator of the Year" by the California Geographical Society in 2002. He has traveled to 132 countries and his photos have been displayed in exhibitions, printed in the Los Angeles Times, and used by textbook publishers.

TREASURER

Douglas Goode

Douglas Goode has been a part-time teacher since 1989 and has recently retired from teaching various computer programs for the Computer Applications and Office Technologies Department at LACC. Mr. Goode received his A.A. degree at Los Angeles City College and his B.S. degree in Business Administration from California State University at Los Angeles. Previously, worked as a desktop publisher with a multidisciplinary team of engineers and statisticians at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) to produce NASA/JPL publications, engineering journal and conference papers, and viewgraph packages for presentations and workshops. He is an active member of the American Guitar Society and the Los Angeles Geographical Society.

SECRETARY

Rebecca Donegan received her AA from Glendale Community College in 2005. Both her B.A. (2007) and M.A. (2009) are in Geography from CSUN. Her master's thesis was on the plight of undocumented day laborers in the U.S. Rebecca is currently teaching Physical Geography as a part-time faculty member at El Camino College in Torrance, CA. She is attempting to write a series of geography books for children. Her goal is get children involved in the study of geography at an early age.

Rebecca Donegan

COUNCILOR

Michael Farrell is an Assistant Professor of Geography and Environmental Science at Los Angeles City College. He has a B.S. in Environmental Studies from UCSB, an M.A. in Geography from SDSU, and has reached PhD Candidacy in a joint doctoral Geography program at SDSU/UCSB. For his graduate research, he studied stream temperature and streamflow in the McKenzie River in Oregon. He is often found whitewater kayaking steep creeks throughout California. He and his wife call a 1924 California Bungalow at the base of the San Gabriel mountains in Pasadena "home"

Michael Farrell

COUNCILOR

Kris Jones is an Independent Geography Instructor who has been teaching at various colleges in the Orange County and Los Angeles area since 1993. He has traveled to all of the continents except Antarctica.

Kris Jones

COUNCILOR

Julienne Gard joined the Los Angeles Geographical Society in January 2000 and has been an active member serving as a dinner organizer, a student member, the Secretary, and as Vice President. She received a BA degree in Geography from the University of Southern California, a MA from California State University, Long Beach, and is currently completing a PhD at USC. Her research centers on health and environment using mixed qualitative and GIS methods.

Julienne Gard

COUNCILOR/WEBMASTER

Cesar Espinosa is a Geography graduate student at California State University, Long Beach. He has an undergraduate degree in Anthropology and a certificate in Geographic Information Systems from Cal State, Los Angeles.

Espinosa has worked on archaeological projects on San Nicholas Island, California and in Maya cave archaeology in the Peten area of Guatemala. He participated for two years on an ethnographic project in Sinaloa, Mexico that documented the indigenous ballgame, Ulama.

Cesar Espinosa

COUNCILOR/WEBMASTER

Christian Vasquez joined the Los Angeles Geographical Society in 2008. He received a BA degree in Geography & International Development Studies from UCLA and is currently completing his Master’s degree in Urban & Regional Planning at Cal Poly Pomona. He is also presently working at the GIS department of the City of Beverly Hills.

Christian Vasquez

CONTACT INFORMATION:

Los Angeles Geographical Society

855 N. Vermont Avenue Box # 1259

Los Angeles, CA 90029

E-mail: lageographicalsociety@yahoo.com

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COUNCILOR /

STUDENT REPRESENTATIVE

Daniel Pearlman is currently enrolled in CSU Dominguez Hills, where he is pursuing his B.A. in Geography. He reestablished the Earth Science Club at Dominguez Hills, and has served as its president for the last two semesters.

Daniel Pearlman

COUNCILOR

Yuki Konishi received her A.S. degree from El Camino College and her B.A. degree in Human Geography from CSU Long Beach. She has over ten years of experience in the travel industry, is recently enrolled for UC Davis certificate program in Tourism and Economic Development. She is also interested in political and cultural geography, international development, and the usage of GIS technology for marketing.

Yuki Konishi