July 4, 2012 Resum OLGA MAGDALENA LAZIN-ANDREI UCLA Visiting Scholar, Education Department PROFMEX R&D Director, Published

d Author For status contact:

Suellen Coleman Management Services Officer Graduate School of Education & Information Studies, UCLA coleman@gseis.ucla.edu

Address PROFMEX Tel. (310) 208 4422

10811 Ashton Ave APT. #101, LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA 90024

Olga Lazin, CV

Cell: (310) 633 3676 E-mail: olazin@ucla.edu Citizenship: USA , HU & RO Web page http://www.olgalazin.net Education 2004 - 2012 UCLA Visiting Scholar, Department of Education 2003 - 2004 UCLA Post Doctoral Scholar, History 2001 ----Ph.D. in History, UCLA 1996 M.A. in History, UCLA 1990 B.A. in Philology, Babes-Bolyai University

1992 - 2012 - PROFMEX (the Consortium for research on Education) R & D Director at UCLA.

Book (sole author):

Decentralized Globalization: Free Markets, U.S. Foundations, and the Rise of Civil and Civic Society from Rockefellers Latin America to Soros Eastern Europe

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published in Spring 2007, by UCLA and the University of Guadalajara Press UCLA Program on Mexico, PROFMEX, and Juan Pablos Editores. Online: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.profmex.org%2Fmexicoandtheworld %2Fvolume12%2FOlgabook %2FLa_globalizacion_se_descentraliza.pdf Also:
http://calstatela.academia.edu/DROLGALAZIN/Books/1392031/Globalization_Po sitive_and_Negative_Aspects

Second Book: The Positive and Negative Sides of Globalization. Lados Obscuros y Brillantes de la Globalizacin, co-author, James W. Wilkie, Universidad de Guadalajara, UCLA, 2011 Online: https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F %2Fww.profmex.org%2Fmexicoandtheworld %2Fvolume17%2F2spring2012%2FLaglobalizacionseamplia.pdf Online http://www.profmex.org Publications https://docs.google.com/viewer?url=http%3A%2F %2Fwww.profmex.org%2Fmexicoandtheworld %2Fvolume12%2FOlgabook %2FLa_globalizacion_se_descentraliza.pdf

3. Rise of the American Model for Philanthropy, book 2001

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online: http://ww.profmex.org/mexicoandtheworld/volume6/1winter01/u s_decentralized_model.html 4. BOOK PPRESENTATION, at the Convention Center, Los Angeles, May 20 -23, 2012. Book Fair, Los Angeles Convention Center, California.

Academic Competence:

Latin American History; Health Systems in Latin America: Regional project on Coordination of Research Policies with the Latin American Countries: American Culture and History: Latin America and Its People, Constitutional History; Social and Political Philosophy of the Unites States, History of Free trade Blocs in Global, and Regional Perspective: NAFTA, Macroeconomics: Climate Change

Gender

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Governance & Health1 Human Rights Migration Race & Ethnicity

Social Determinants of HealthSouthern California

Urbanization Comparative Free Trade Blocs Analysis; History of Globalization; Philosophy of Individualism; Philosophy of Film & Hollywood Culture; Ancient and Modern History; Creative Writing; Creating Thinking; U.S. History; the Age of Revolutions, Elitelore, and Folklore: Critical Thinking; Marxism; Capitalism, American Pragmatism; Feminism; Ethics; Environmental Studies; Asian Philosophy
Online at: http://calstatela.academia.edu/DROLGALAZIN/Papers/1894506/SYLLABUS_HIST ORY_160_HEALTH_SYSTEMS_and_POVERTY_IN_MEXICO
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and Religion; Religious Studies (East and West); Aesthetics; Philosophy and Literature. LANGUAGES: polyglot Spanish; French; Latin; Italian, Romanian, and Hungarian. ESL Teacher: City of Long Beach.
Editor-In-Chief: PROFMEX http://www.profmex.org

Online: http://ww.profmex.org/contact.html
1990 -- 2012

Teaching Experience, History Lecturer:

UCLA, California State University, Cal State University Long Beach, Cerritos College, Santa Monica College, West LA College, and El Camino College.

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2012 History 161 - UCLA, Spring Quarter, Latin American Social History Survey Course, Co-taught with Dr James W Wilkie Syllabus link attached here: http://calstatela.academia.edu/DROLGALAZIN/Papers /1894506/SYLLABUS_HISTORY_160_HEALTH_SYSTEM S_and_POVERTY_IN_MEXICO 2011 UCLA Extension, Topics in Latin American History, Summer Quarter, Winter Quarter, 2011 2010 Women and Globalization, Upper Division Womens Studies Course 401I California State University, Long Beach, Spring Semester 2009 World History Since 1500, Upper Division History Course, Course 380 at California State University, Long Beach, Spring Semester 2008 Course 301, History: The Individual, the Family and the Community, Cal State University Dominguez Hills, for 7 years, every semester. 2008 Women in World History, Upper Division History 380, California State University, Dominguez Hills, Fall Semester

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2007 Mexico Since 1910, UCLA Upper Division Course History 171, UCLA Extension (UNEX), Spring Quarter 2007 Health Systems in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective: Summer Quarter 2006 Lecturer: History of Latin America, Upper Division Course History of Mexico, Upper Division Course Santa Monica College, Summer Quarter, & fall 2005 History of the Americas, Lower Division History 8.1 Cerritos College, Winter Quarter

UCLA Teaching Experience: Department of History: LECTURER 2007 History 8B Teaching Assistant, Summer & Fall Quarters

Managing Editor-in-Chief: of PROFMEX Web Journal

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2007 to date The United States and the World http://www.profmex.com Director Research & Development

English for Academic Purposes (EAP) courses. We provide language instruction for academic study in American universities. Ho to get the KAPLAN Exam.
Competence: Articles Authored & Book reviews: 2010: Lydia's Open Door: Inside Mexico's Most Modern Brothel, University of California Press, by Patty Kelly, 2008. On Amazon.com under olazin & In H_NET Reviews on books upon Latin America. 2009 Conference, Mexico and The World: Online articles: http://ww.profmex.org/mexicoandtheworld/volume2/ 2spring97/emergingworldtrade.html b. http://www.olgalazin.net 2002 How to Improve heath Services in Tijuana. Expansion del Papel del Instituto Nacional de Migracin de Mxico (INAMI) y

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Establecimiento de Un Think Tank" Dedicado a Mejorar la Calidad de Vida en La Gran Los Angeles-Tijuana, (Mxico, D.F.: INAMI, 2002), Chapter 5. 2001 History and Components of Globalization, Healthcare, Education and Telecommunications, in Statistical Abstract of Latin America 37 (Los Angeles: UCLA Latin American Center Publications), pp. xxiv-xxvii. 2000a Romanian Globalization Theory and Its Impact In Latin America - The Neopopulist Discourse, UCLA Historical Journal, Issue 19, pp. 12-

34. 2000b Book Review of Crafting the Third World: Theorizing Under-development in Brazil (Stanford University Press, 1996) by Joseph Love, Mexico and the World 5:2 Online: http://www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume5/2spring0 0/00Lazin1.htm 1999a Mexico and Romania Compared, in Mexico and the World, edited by James W. Wilkie (Mxico, D.F.: PROFMEX-ANUIES), pp. 206-233. Also in Mexico and the World 6:1 Online:

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http://www.isop.ucla.edu/profmex/volume6/1 winter01/01lazin1.htm 1999b "Globalizacin Fast-Track y el Surgimiento de reas de Libre Comercio (ALC) y Corporaciones Transglobales (CTG) Virtuales", in Mxico frente a la Modernizacin de China, ed. Oscar M. Gonzlez Cuevas (Mxico, D.F.: Universidad Autnoma Metropolitana-Unidad Azcapotzalco), pp. 307-359. (Co-authored with James W. Wilkie)

1996 Bloques Emergentes de Comercio Internacional: Comparacin |Entre el rea de Libre Comercio de Amrica del Norte y la Unin Europea, Carta Econmica Regio Universidad de Guadalajara, No. 48, May-June, pp. 36. 1995a NAFTA and The European Union Compared, in Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Vol. 30;1, pp. 1205-1230. (online http://www.profmex.org) 1995a Mxico Como Punta de Lanza para el Libre Comercio en las Amricas, in Ajustes y Desajustes Regionales, eds. Jess Arroyo Alejandre y David E. Lorey (Guadalajara y Los Angeles: University of Guadalajara y UCLA Program on Mexico), 47-112.

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(Co-author James W. Wilkie) 1999 Mexico as a Linchpin for Free Trade in the Americas, in Statistical Abstract of Latin America, Vol. 31:2, pp. 1173-1203. (Co-author James W. Wilkie) Online:
1985

Originality and Stereotypes, Nord, Baia Mare, Romania, Jan, p. 3.

1984 Confessions, Nord, Baia Mare, Romania, January 1, p. 5.

Course Readers Edited: LECTURER 2010 Immigration to the U.S. and Gender: UCLA, History 160B 2002 Women in Global Perspectives, Course reader, Gender Studies, 401I CSULB
2001

Women in History: Globalizing Women and Gender Studies in History, California State University, Dominguez Hills Elitelore Issues, UCLA

1999

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Frontiers in Elitelore, UCLA History 169

1995 Issues in Elitelore and Folklore, UCLA History 169

Research Awards from UCLA International Studies Overseas Programs 1999-2000 UCLA Travel Grant to Conduct Research on Reconstructing the Legal Framework for Civil Society in Romania: The Mexican Model." 1997-1998 UCLA Travel Grant to Conduct Research on Women and Civil Society in Mexico 1996 Award Latin American Center Fieldwork

Professional Achievements Reproductive HEALTH & Womens Rights in Mexico, Paper Presentation. Moderator on Research & Advocacy panel, UCLA School of Law, March

2010

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12th. Organizer 2010 The Economic Policy of Immigration, Paper presentation, Conference in Mazatln, Universidad Autonoma de Mazatln, June 23-25, MX 2010 PROFMEX-UCLA Conference Organizing Committee, Paper presented: Barriers to Reproductive Rights in the U.S. A. & Mexico Morelia, State of Michoacn, September 19-25.

2010 Co-Conference Organizer: Women in Film, Hollywood, Paper presentation, UCLA, May 1998 1997--2010 Director, Globalization Studies, UCLA Latin America Center 1999 PROFMEX Conference Organizing Committee, Mexico and the World, Paper Presentation, Morelia, State of Michoacn, December 8-15 http://www.profmex.com //mexworld/issue6/art1 1994-- PROFMEX Director, NAFTA-European Integration

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1993-- Organizer, NPPOs GLOBAL-Program for Legally Facilitating the Flow of U.S. - Based Tax Exempt Funds to Not-For-Private-Profit Organizations Worldwide. Conferences held in: Belgium, Hungary, Romania, 1995 Hungary, Romania, Switzerland, 1994 France, Russia, Spain, 1993 1993 Chief of Project, Establishment of PROFMEX Office at the Institute of Latin American Studies, Russian Academy of Science, Moscow June 15-26.

1992 Director NAFTA - European ntegration Studies, based in France and Mexico. February 20December 15. 1991 PROFMEX Organizer, Mission to Analyze Destatification in Eastern Europe, September 15 October 12. 1990: Latin Language Professor, Cluj, Romania

Memberships: California faculty Association, 2001. American Historical Association

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American-Romanian Academy of Science and Arts American-Romanian Foundation (California TaxExempt Organization) Founding Member and Chair of Board of Directors, 1997Conference on Latin American History Feminist Majority Foundation (Founder of Feminist Alliance, UCLA Chapter) Institute for the Study of Gender in Mexico Northern California Translators Association (NCTA) PROFMEXConsortium for Research on Mexico Board of Directors, 1997 Holmby Park Advisory Board, Beverly Hills, 2001-Conferences, Seminars Presentations and Invitations: 2012: FREE TRADE AND GLOBALIZATION, UCLA, History Deparment, Fall 2012 2011 UCLA Conference, School of Law, Reproductive Justice in U.S. and Mexico:

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Is Machismo Winning?, March 12-15th, UCLA Los Angeles, CA 2010 Conference on Latin American Literature and Education, Mexico City, June 17-24, Paper: The Challenge of Globalization, Civil Society in Latin America and Canada. 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, and 2008, EPA Courses at UCLA: English for Academic Purposes, Full-time. Lecturer/Instructor. 2001 Conference on Urban Poverty Worldwide, Toluca, State of Mexico, November 6-9, Paper: Women in the Labor Force, Equal Pay 2000 Conference Organizer, Technological Knowledge and Womens Role in the Global Advocacy Networking, UCLA, June 4 2000 PROFMEX-UCLA Conference on Mexico and Public Policy, Organizer, and also Paper: The Mexico NGO Sector and the Role of Women. Morelia, Michoacn, Mexico, Sept. 14 23. TV Interview: Noticiero Canal 13 de Televisa Broadcast to Mexico/USA

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1999 UCLA Colloquium in European History and Culture, October 16, Paper: "Globalization of Civil Society: The Open Society Fund in East-Central Europe International Philanthropy" 1999 Organizer, PROFMEX-Guanajuato Conference on Innovative Ideas for Mexicos Development," Paper The Role of Transnational NGOs in Developing Civil Society in Mexico, Guanajuato, April 14-19. 1999 Organizer, UCLA Seminar on Globalization and Romania's Transylvanian Region, sponsored by U.S. Small Business Association, July 7 2003 UCLA History Annual Conference on Womens History, March 17, Paper: The Politics of Gender in Mexico http://www.olgalazin.net/articles.html 1997 Romanian Academy Conference on "Civil Society , Cluj Napoca, Romania, June 15, Paper: Civil Society and the Transfer of the Mexican - U.S. Model to Romania, 1997 Civic Academy Conference on Rebuilding Civil Society," Sighet, Maramures, Romania, June 22, Paper:

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The Deliberate Detour Of Romanias Civil Society after 1947 by the Ceausescu Dictatorship"
1996 UCLA

Colloquium on Romania, June 17, Paper: The Emerging Romanian Informational Infrastructure 1996 UCLA Colloquium in European History and Culture, October 16, Paper: "Civil Society and the Mexican Adaptation of the U.S. Philanthropic Model" 1995 The American-Romanian Academy of Science Annual Meeting, University of Reno, January 12 17. Moderator: Session on Culture; Paper: Orwell's 1984 and Life Under Big Brothers Stalin & Ceausescu 1994 PROFMEX Policy Seminar for Managing the Greater El Paso-Ciudad Jurez Metropolitan Area, El Paso, March 14-15. Paper: Simplifying U.S.-Mexican Visas 1994 Mexicos Federal Electoral Institute, Invitee as International Observer of the Mexican Presidential Election, Mexico City, August 19-22. 1994 PROFMEX Conference on Experiences of Destatification

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Mexico City, August 23, 1994, Paper: NAFTA and EU Compared. 1994 Romanian Internet Learning Workshop. Miercurea Ciuc, Romania, April 29, Paper: Ironies and Complexities of Redefining Civil Society In East-Central Europe. http://oc1.itim-cj.ro/rilw/Papers/Olga.html 1993 Mexico City University (UAM-A), September 18, paper: Accelerating the education of Young Women in Mexico: A Development Imperative Member: American Historiacal Association.

Languages Spoken and Written English Romanian French Spanish German Latin Hungarian Persian; speak, read, write speak, read, write speak, read, write speak, read, write speak read, write speak, read, write speak

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Italian

speak, read, write

Travel and Research___________________________________________ Europe Americas Canada: Oct 1992, Nov 1995 Mexico: Yearly, 1992-USA: October 1992-Guatemala, January 1999 Costa Rica, March 1999 Caracas, Venezuela 2009

Austria: Sept 1991 Belgium: Sept 1995 Bulgaria: Sept 1992 England: Jan and May 2001, 2009 France: 1991-1992 Hungary: 1991, 1992, 1995 Romania: Yearly, 1992-Russia: June 1993 Spain: March 1992 Switzerland: June-July 1994 Turkey: July 2000

References Dr. James W. Wilkie, UCLA Professor of Globalization History and Policy Studies Chair, UCLA Program on Mexico President, PROFMEX 1242 Lachman Lane, Pacific Palisades, CA, 90272 Tel. cell (310) 454-8812, office 310 208 2244 E-mail: james.wilkie@att.net

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Dr. Carlos Alberto Torres, UCLA Professor of Education

Professor of Social Sciences and Comparative Education Social Sciences and Comparative Education (SSCE) Division Head, Director, Paulo Freire Institute; Tel 310 455 1090

E-mail: catnovoa@aol.com

Dr Peter Lowenberg, PROF. Chairman international Psychoanalitic Association, UCLA 449 Levering, Los Angeles, Ca 90024-1909 Tel: 1 (310) 471 3039 E-mail: Peterl@ucla.edu Dr. Jess Arroyo Alejandre, Professor and Dean, School of Economics University of Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico Tel: (011-52-33) 36-33-54-45 E-mail: jesusarr@cucea.udg.mx Dr. Ivn T. Berend, UCLA Professor of East Central European History Director, UCLA Center for Eastern Europe and Russian Studies UCLA, 6343 Bunche Hall,405 Hilgard Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90095 Tel. (310) 825 1178

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E-mail: iberend @history.ucla.edu

Ana Torres-Bower, Professor of Philosophy Former Dean of Social Sciences Cerritos College 11110 Alondra Blvd. Norwalk, CA 90650 Tel: (562) 860-2451 Ext. 2778 TorresBower@cerritos.edu

Dr. Ronald E. Hellman, CUNY Professor of Sociology Director, CUNY Center for Science and Society in the Americas City University of New York 365 Fifth Ave, New York, NY 10016 Tel. (516) 477-4011 rhellman@suffolk.lib.ny.us
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