Education
University of California, Los Los Angeles
University of California, Los Los Angeles
The district includes portions of San Diego, Chula Vista, and National City and all of Lemon Grove and Louisiana Mesa. She is the first African American from south of Los Angeles to be elected to the California State Legislature. She is a Democrat.
Her parents were from Arkansas.
She was raised in a poor section of Los Los Angeles
She went to the University of California, Los Angeles where she earned three degrees by the time she was 26: a Bachelor of Arts in 1970, a Master of Arts in 1971, and a Doctor of Philosophy in communication in 1975. Weber is a professor emeritus of Africana studies at San Diego State University.
She helped to establish that department in 1972 and became its chair, teaching there for 40 years. She was president of the National Council for Black Studies from 2002 to 2006.
She served as a board member and later president of the San Diego Board of Education from 1988 to 1996.
She also served as chairwoman of the San Diego Citizens’ Equal Opportunity Commission. In Fall 2011 she was recruited to run for assembly by assemblymember Toni Atkins. Atkins has regarded Weber as an inspiring role model ever since hearing her speak as a school board member.
Weber says her focus as an assemblymember will be education.
Tenure
Weber sits on the Assembly"s Committee on Higher Education. She has been promoting the development of a state university in Chula Vista, possibly beginning as a satellite or extension campus of the California State University system.
California Democratic Party, Democratic Party.
She is the member of the California State Assembly representing the 79th district.