Racial Injustice Globally Speaker Series: Dr. Matt A. Barreto
Date & Time: November 10, 2020 | 04:00 AM – July 16, 2024 | 12:40 PM
Location: Online (Zoom)
The SIA Racial Injustice Globally Speaker Series will continue on Monday, November 9 at 7:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. EST (4:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. PT) via Zoom. Dr. Matt A. Barreto will be presenting on, "Race and the 2020 Election."
Dr. Matt A. Barreto is Co-founder and Managing Partner of the polling and research firm Latino Decisions which he co-founded with Gary Segura in 2007. Barreto has been recognized as “the pollster that has his finger on the pulse of the Latino electorate.” In 2020 Barreto was hired by the Joe Biden presidential campaign to direct polling and focus group research for Latino voters. In the prior cycle, Barreto conducted polling and focus groups for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. That same year, he also directed Latino outreach research for the U.S. Senate campaigns of Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV) and Michael Bennet (CO).
Barreto is also a professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA where he teaches courses on Latino politics, elections, immigration politics, and statistical analysis. He is the author of four books and more than 60 academic articles, and his research has won several national awards and grants. Barreto received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine in 2005, and was on the faculty at the University of Washington for 10 years before joining UCLA in 2015. At UCLA he also serves as founding faculty director of the Latino Policy & Politics Initiative, in the Luskin School of Public Affairs
Dr. Barreto’s talk is Co-Sponsored with the Penn State College of Liberal Arts Department of Political Science.
Please register to attend. Zoom information will be sent after registration.