Velma Montoya, Ph.D. is an Economist and is retired from government service and university teaching. She served in the Office of Policy Development in the Reagan White House and is University of California Regent Emerita at the University of California. She currently serves as a member (and former Chairperson) of the California Advisory Committee to the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights and on the Board of UCLA's Faculty Club where she represents UCLA's Faculty Women's Club.