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The Fight for the Latino Vote

During one meeting on September 1st, the campaign’s senior Latino staff—including deputy campaign manager Julie Chavez Rodriguez, senior advisor Cristobal Alex, pollster Matt Barreto, and consultant Adrian Saenz—met with the analytics team to discuss expanding the universe of Latino voters being targeted by the campaign, according to sources with knowledge of the meetings.

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Is It Time To Say R.I.P. To ‘POC’?

LPPI expert Efren Perez appeared on NPR Code Switch to discuss the term POC. “When we affirm the parallel experiences that unify the group, you see that higher levels of identifying as a person of color lead you to be more supportive of Black Lives Matter and DACA.”

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Presidential Debate

Sonja Diaz joins KTLA as a political analyst to discuss the first Presidential Debate. “None of what President Trump is saying is factually correct in terms of the response to Coronavirus and also his impact on the economy.”

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Immigrant Rights

A Salvadoran writer busts the Trump myth of the tattooed immigrant threat

UCLA professor and LPPI expert Leisy J. Abrego says, “In media depictions we’re [immigrants] either victims or criminals, and we don’t have any agency of our own. That’s why books like Lovato’s are so important, because they start to capture the full humanity, the imperfections, but also the strategy, the agency, the collective work to…

Read More | October 19, 2020

News Articles & Media Coverage → Demography & Population Studies

Business school rankings could promote racial equity, but don’t (opinion)

Miguel Unzueta, UCLA LPPI expert, co-authored this piece to propose that the five major annual M.B.A. rankings — U.S. News & World Report, Forbes, Businessweek, the Financial Times and The Economist — include demographic and curricular metrics of diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) in their program evaluations.

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