Latino Decisions is a joint effort between Pacific Market Research, a nationally known research firm, and Dr. Gary Segura and Dr. Matt Barreto, leading Latino politics scholars and professors at Stanford University and the University of Washington.
Both Dr. Segura and Dr. Barreto are experienced and nationally respected researchers who have a deep understanding of U.S. Latino culture and advanced quantitative research skills. Their expertise, coupled with Pacific Market Research's logistical capabilities, makes Latino Decisions a leader in the field.
Background on the researchers:
Dr. Gary Segura is a Professor of Political Science at Stanford University, and Director of Chicano Studies in the Center for Comparative Studies of Race and Ethnicity. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Illinois in 1992. His work focuses on issues of political representation, and is focusing on the accessibility of government and politics to America's growing Latino minority, as well as a book-length project on the links between casualties in international conflict and domestic politics. His recent work has been published in the American Political Science Review, the American Journal of Political Science, the Journal of Politics, the Political Research Quarterly, Perspectives on Politics, and the Annual Review of Political Science. He has extensive survey research experience. He is a co-Principal Investigator of the Latino National Survey, a national poll of 8600 Latino residents of the United States conducted in the winter and spring 2006. He is also the co-Director of the Washington Poll, a statewide opinion survey conducted by Pacific Market Research. He serves on the Board of Overseers of the American National Election Study, is the President-elect of the Midwest Political Science Association, and is a current or former member of the governing boards of the American Political Science Association, Midwest Political Science Association, and Western Political Science Association.
Dr. Matt Barreto is an assistant professor of political science at the University of Washington, and a founding member of the Washington Institute for the Study of Ethnicity and Race (WISER). He received his Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine. His research examines the political participation of racial and ethnic minorities in the United States and his work has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Public Opinion Quarterly, Urban Affairs Review, and other peer reviewed journals. Barreto specializes in Latino and immigrant voting behavior, and teaches courses on Racial and Ethnic Politics, Latino Politics, and Voting and Elections at UW. He is also an affiliated faculty member in the Center for Statistics and the Social Sciences (CSSS) at the University of Washington, and is an affiliated research scholar with the Tomás Rivera Policy Institute and with the Center for the Study of Los Angeles. In 2004, Barreto was a co-author of the TRPI/Washington Post National Survey of Latino voters, and in 2006 he was a principal advisor and survey consultant to the Latino Policy Coalition which conducted four nationwide surveys of Latino voters during the midterm elections.