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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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Voting Right’s Project in Telemundo: “Lawsuit Claims Voter Suppression Towards Latino in Eastern WA”

In 2020, the state of Washington denied the right to vote to more than four thousand Latinos. Furthermore, the League of United Latin American Citizens, Latino Community Fund of Washington, and UCLA’s Voting Rights Project have filed a lawsuit against Benton, Chelan, and Yakima counties for discriminatory practices against the mail-in-ballots of Latino voters and…

Dr. Vargas Bustamante in The Sacramento Bee: “California Latinos are behind in COVID-19 vaccinations. Here’s what is holding them back”

Arturo Vargas Bustamante, said a Trump administration policy that dissuaded immigrants from seeking certain public benefits, like Medicaid, almost might have discouraged Latinos from seeking out COVID-19 vaccines. “Immigrant communities, they just realize that someone like Trump, if not Trump, can come back … and reimpose this type of public charge exclusion,” he said.

Dr. Noriega in The Los Angeles Times: “Newsletter: Essential Arts: Epic memo to the Whitney on exclusion of Chicano art from American story”

Since 2002, Chon Noriega has led UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center, an academic hub that was launched in the late 1960s, and that has been key to archiving Chicano historical documents, producing original scholarship and publications, and commissioning oral histories of important artists, activists and political figures. After 19 years, he is stepping down from…

Dr. Hayes-Bautista in Univision: “Fear of covid keeps many Latino children out of classrooms”

Latinos are vulnerable to the highly communicable coronavirus because they are more likely than non-Hispanic whites to do essential jobs that expose them to the public, said David Hayes-Bautista, a UCLA professor of public health and medicine and a co-author of a study, in January, about this theme.

Dr. Chinchilla in Telemundo 52: “Scars of COVID-19: How the housing crisis influenced infections”

“It is common for Latino families to live together, because we are very attached to the family and also because there are benefits to sharing the housing costs,” says Dr. Melissa Chinchilla, researcher at Altamed and UCLA LPPI.

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