Huerta, Jorge A.

Biography

Jorge Alfonso Huerta was born in Southern California on November 20, 1942. He graduated from Benjamin Franklin High School in Los Angeles, California, in 1960, and then attended California State University, Los Angeles, earning his degree in 1965. Huerta went on to earn his Ph.D. from the University of Calfornia, Santa Barbara in 1974. Huerta was the first Chicano nationwide to receive his Ph.D. in theatre. In 1975 he joined the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego as a professor. Huerta was later named UCSD's Associate Chancellor and the University’s first Chief Diversity Officer, serving in that post from 2004 to 2007.

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