Dr. Yolanda T. Moses is a professor of anthropology and associate vice-chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity at the University of California, Riverside. She was inducted in the Hall of Fame in 1995.

Dr. Yolanda T. Moses is the former President of the City College of New York, one of nine colleges of the City University of New York.  Moses graduated from Perris High School, SBVC in 1966, California State University, San Bernardino, and earned her Ph.d. in anthropology at the University of California, Riverside. She was a faculty person at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona, from 1985 to 1988 and Vice-President for Academic Affairs and professor of anthropology at California State University, Dominquez Hills, from 1988 to 1993. At Cal Poly, Pomona, she chaired the Ethnic and Women's Studies Department and served as Dean of the School of Liberal Arts.  She was an Andrew Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at the Center for Advanced Studies in the Behavioral Sciences in Palo Alto. She has published extensively and served as the 74th president of the American Anthropological Association, the world's largest association of anthropologists. She has served as a trustee of the Ford Foundation and in 1997 received UC Riverside's 1997 Distinguished Alumnus Award. Of her experience at SBVC, she noted: "My educational foundation at SBVC served me well. My professors believed in me and would not let me work below my potential." Moses is professor of anthropology and associate vice-chancellor for Diversity, Excellence and Equity at the University of California, Riverside. She is the wife of James F. Bawek and the mother of daughters, Shana and Antonia. Dr. Moses was inducted into the Valley College Alumni Hall of Fame in 1995.