Bobby Rimas elected to help lead UCLA Lambda alumni
ON November 18, 2024, California State University, Los Angeles Associate Professor and UCLA Fil-Am alumnus Bobby T. Rimas was elected by the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) Lambda Alumni Association Board of Directors to serve as co-chair of the UCLA Lamba Alumni Association with a term beginning in January 2025.
UCLA Lambda Alumni Association is one of the oldest and most well-established LGBTQ+ alumni organizations in the United States. UCLA Lambda Alumni Association has three mission pillars, which include social and professional networking where UCLA LGBTQ+ alumni and community members meet and support one another socially and professionally at various events.
UCLA Lambda Alumni is also actively involved with student support that comprises of raising scholarship funds for deserving students and external community outreach, which includes playing an active role in LGBTQ + activism beyond the UCLA campus – in Los Angeles, across California, and beyond.
Formally established in 1989 by Doug Walters and Corinne Lightweaver, the UCLA Lambda Alumni Association has a history of LGBTQ+ activism and is also home to the first-ever LGBTQ+ college publication.
“I am very humbled and honored to be elected to help lead the UCLA Lambda Alumni Association and hope that my service to the university, its alumni and students will make UCLA and my family proud,” said Rimas, born and raised in Palm Springs, California who has served on the UCLA Lambda Alumni Association Board of Directors since August 2018.
In addition to being an Associate Professor, Rimas is a Paralegal at the Larson LLP law firm. Rimas is also a Commissioner for the Palm Springs Human Rights Commission. He is the past chair and president of the UCLA Pilipino Alumni Association and past president of the Los Angeles Paralegal Association.
Rimas graduated with a bachelor’s degree in history from UCLA, a master of legal studies degree, cum laude, with a concentration in compliance and legal risk management from the University of Arizona James E. Rogers College of Law and a master of arts in education with a concentration in diversity, equity and social justice in education from The University of Texas at El Paso.
