Noted: Salas served briefly as executive director of United Migrant Opportunity Services and has been involved in numerous Latino civil rights issues throughout his life. He earned an undergraduate degree in education from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and a master’s degree in political science from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He went on to teach social science at Milwaukee Area Technical College and Chicano and Latino studies at UWM and UW-Madison, and is a former member of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents.