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Sonja Diaz in San Francisco Chronicle: “Time is Gavin Newsom’s friend when it comes to the recall”

Read Publication “If we preserve our workforce, California’s businesses will have the labor to recover, and that’s important for the world’s fifth-largest economy,” said Sonja Diaz, one of 70 Latino leaders who wrote a letter to Newsom asking for a more equitable distribution policy. “The better California does in saving lives and opening schools, the higher the public…

UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute Statement From Latino Leaders On Prioritizing Hardest-Hit Communities For Vaccine Access

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute and a group of Latino leaders from across California issued the following statements in response to the state’s updated vaccine equity metric to target 40 percent of COVID-19 vaccine doses to the hardest-hit communities in the lowest quartile of the Heathy Places Index.

Students express concern, need for action following anti-Asian violence

Natalie Masuoka, a political science and Asian American studies associate professor, said that while there was generally a rise in anti-Asian bias over the course of 2020, it is still difficult to document and track the existence of patterns of hate crimes. “We don’t necessarily have a straightforward way of recording a hate crime occurring,”…

Medical professionals discuss inequities in health care at UCLA symposium

David Hayes-Bautista, a professor of medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine and director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health and Culture, said he saw disparities in his early experiences in academia. Hayes-Bautista said he felt discouraged to complete research on Latino health because when he was first hired as faculty,…

Latino voters being silenced in Franklin commission races, voting rights group claims

Matt Barreto, faculty director at the Voting Rights Project, maintains the current system is not fair to the heavily Latino areas in Pasco. “I feel there is a definitely majority Latino district,” he said. “It would require no gerrymandering.”

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