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Chon Noriega, LPPI expert, emphasizes the lack of humanities research about the role of religion and spirituality in the Latino community’s history.

News Articles & Media Coverage → Democracy & Voting Rights

Disinformation Campaigns: A Discussion of Politics, Pandemics, and Chicana/x and Latina/x Communities

The UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Executive Director, Sonja Diaz, will appear as a political expert on a webinar set to take place on January 28th. The webinar will cover how to combat misinformation, racially motivated attacks, how leaders can restore trust in government decisions, and much more.

Read More | January 25, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Education

Gov. Gavin Newsom proposes increase in UC funding for 2021-2022 academic year

Despite the ongoing pandemic, the budget has more funding available than anyone expected, said Patricia Gandara, a UCLA research professor of education. “Everybody needs more money for one thing or another, but I think it’s very positive that (Newsom) has taken an equity lens to it,” Gandara said.

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Education

The Quad: Exploring UCLA’s goal to be designated as a Hispanic-Serving Institution

Patricia Gándara said given LA’s large Latino population, it is distressing that UCLA has not yet become an HSI. “Los Angeles (has) the second-largest Latino or Mexican-origin population in the world, after Mexico City,” Gándara said. “(The Latino community is) obviously a very large and important part of the population area that UCLA serves.” … Continued

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → COVID-19

’I don’t trust it’: These Californians hesitant to take COVID vaccine, despite surge

“There’s been a storied legacy, both at home and abroad, of the way that the U.S. government has rolled out medical and scientific experiments on non-white bodies,” said Sonja Diaz. “More must be done to ensure these communities, who are overwhelmingly on the frontlines of this pandemic, have accurate and culturally tailored information to trust … Continued

Read More | January 19, 2021

News Articles & Media Coverage → Criminal Justice

Mathews: Turn a notorious jail into a center for democracy

The jail symbolizes how L.A. became “the carceral capital of the world,” as UCLA scholar Kelly Lytle Hernandez has put it. Even before it was a big city, L.A. was a pioneer in caging people——the Indigenous, Chinese migrants, white vagrants, Mexican migrants, and Black people.

Read More | January 19, 2021

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