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News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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 … Continued

Read More | May 16, 2021

Statements → Mobility & Opportunity

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.

Read More | May 13, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

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.

Read More | May 12, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

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).

Read More | May 12, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Civil Rights

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.

Read More | May 11, 2021

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