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The UCLA Voting Rights Project is a project of the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs aimed at creating an accessible and equitable system of voting for all Americans through impact litigation, research, and clinical education to expand access to the ballot box.

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Matt Barreto in Yakima Herald: “New redistricting proposal would create a Latino majority by voting age in the 14th”

In an area that displays polarized voting, like the Yakima Valley, Latino-majority districts aren’t enough to ensure Latino voters elect their favored candidates, UCLA’s Voting Rights Project director Matt Barreto said in the report. Mapmakers need to consider the number of Latino voters, not the total number of Latinos, when drawing political boundaries, Barreto said.

Esmeralda Melgoza in Voz de America: “UCLA: latinos en California usaron más servicios de emergencia durante pandemia” (Spanish)

Aparece Esmeralda Melgoza, una experta en salud pública y coautora de un nuevo reporte de UCLA ‘s Latino Policy and Politics Institute en esta entrevista con Voz de América. Hablan de las reformas recomendadas para mejorar los servicios médicos de emergencia para la comunidad latina.

Sonja Diaz in East County Today: “Latina Elected Officials and Leaders Demand Progress to Close California’s Latina Pay Gap”

Panelists for the hearing included: California Labor Commissioner Lilia Garcia-Brower, Executive Director of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls Holly Martinez, Founding Director of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute Sonja Diaz.

Matt Barreto in Crosscut: “Proposed WA redistricting maps may violate Voting Rights Act”

Matt Barreto, faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project and an expert on Latino voting patterns, said that’s a problem because the Yakima Valley has both a large Latino population and a well documented history of racially polarized voting, in which Latino voters consistently choose different candidates than white voters.

Maria Samaniego & Rodrigo Dominguez Villegas in Nonprofit Quarterly: “How We Can Dismantle the Noxious Myths that Undermine Racial Justice”

Last year marked the beginning of a racial reckoning, spurred by the tragic murder of George Floyd and a pandemic that disproportionately ravaged the wealth and health of non-white Americans. Across the country, white Americans found themselves pressed to recognize inequities that, for years, communities of color have been screaming into a void about.

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