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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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Sonni Waknin & Chad Dunn in The Seattle Times: “Voting-rights battle in Washington state raises allegations of diluting Latino votes”

While such efforts are often associated with the South, voter suppression can occur “anywhere and everywhere,” said Sonni Waknin, a lawyer with the UCLA Voting Rights Project. Chad Dunn, the project’s co-founder and legal director, said Eastern Washington in particular has a history of government discrimination toward a Latino population that has formed the base…

Statement on Gov. Newsom’s Budget

Sonja Diaz, UCLA LPPI founding director, issued the following statement in response to Gov. Gavin Newsom’s budget proposal.

Matt Barreto in The Hill: “Biden’s internal polling touts public support for immigration reform”

Pollster Matt Barreto — a veteran of the Biden presidential campaign who’s an adviser for Building Back Together (BBT), a political action group created to support Biden — on Monday briefed the president’s top allies on his latest poll.

David Hayes-Bautista in Impacto Latino: “Fear of covid-19 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 co-author of a study, in January, about this theme (Also: Radio Bilingue and La Conexion USA).

Natalie Masuoka in Los Altos Town crier: “AACI, Simitian schedule panel series on Asian-American experience”

“Our Diverse AAPI Community.” Who’s who in the AAPI community? What are their histories, stories and experiences? What are their similarities and differences? Panelists include Pawan Dinghra, author and professor at Amherst College; Michele Lew, CEO of The Health Trust; and Natalie Masuoka, author and associate professor and chairperson of Asian American studies at UCLA.

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