Background
Ortiz, Paul Andrew was born on March 12, 1964 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Paul Pedro O. and Johnine Ivonne Powell.
Ortiz, Paul Andrew was born on March 12, 1964 in Norfolk, Virginia, United States. Son of Paul Pedro O. and Johnine Ivonne Powell.
Bachelor, Evergreen State College, Olympia, Washington, 2000. Doctor of Philosophy, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 2000.
Research assistant (privately employed), Olympia, 1989—1991. Living skills instructor South Sound Options Unlimited, 1990—1993. Research assistant Duke University, Durham, North Carolina, 1993—1996, research coordinator Center Documentary Studies, 1996—2001.
Professor University of California, Santa Cruz, California, since 2001. History consultant Sunflower County Civil Rights Reunion Committee, Indianola, Mississippi, since 2000, Reality Works Radio Documentary, Tampa, Florida, since 2000. Visiting assistant professor history Duke University, Durham, 2000—2001.
Sergeant United States Army, 1982-1986.
Board directors Institute Southern Studies, Durham, 1999—2001. Steering committee member Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz, California, 2002. Board directors North Carolina Farm Workers Project, Benson, North Carolina, 1993—2001, Student Action with Farm Workers, Durham, 1999—2001.
Member of Santa Cruz Faculty Association (member exec.com. 2002), Organization American Historians, Oral Hisotry Association (Outstanding Oral History Project 1996), American History Association.
Married Sheila A. Payne, June 11, 1995. 1 child Joshua Redmond-Payne.