The State of the State for Washington Latinos

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On May 10th, five STS researchers will present to the Latino Community Fund’s board of directors as well as state legislators involved in the Racial Equity Team and local citizens active in a group of civic engagement funders. STS researchers partnering with LCF will address the ways organizations and Washington State lawmakers can increase the […]

On May 9-10th, STS researchers Julia Bladin and Loretta Velaochaga Klugger will meet leading legal professionals and academics both in Yakima and at the University of Washington to discuss their spatial analyses and focus-group inquiries regarding Latinos’ exclusions from jury selection pools in the federal courts of eastern WA.

On May 1st, STS researchers Andrea Berg and Bella Zarate will travel to Yakima to meet with stakeholders in the region to discuss the effectiveness of the Alternative Education Program at the Walla Walla Community College. The research shows how and why AEP has reached and empowered discouraged learners who are not succeeding in public […]

On April 22, STS researchers Keiler Beers, Maricela Sanchez-Garcia and Claire Collins discussed the achievements of Walla Walla’s INK-OUT gang-exit tattoo removal program with the project’s Board at Walla Walla General Hospital. Key topics were the impact on gang involvement of tensions between Latino community-members and police and the potential of law enforcement and local […]

As a culmination of Whitman Events Board’s weeklong symposium on immigration issues (4/14-4/18), STS researchers Eve Penberthy, Gladys Gitau and Jackie Bonilla presented their research alongside Whitman professors addressing the immigration debate. Having collaborated with immigrant rights organization OneAmerica, the students discussed Washington State preparedness to provide new immigration and citizenship services that comprehensive immigration […]

On May 9th, five STS researchers will travel to Yakima to present to the Washington Commission on Hispanic Affairs. Three researchers will join their community partners, the Latino Community Fund, to discuss strategies for increasing the youth vote among communities of color. Two students will offer their analysis of the exclusion of Latinos from jury […]

On February 13th, STS researchers Kate McMurchie, Claire Johnson and Josh Rubenstein met with Washington state legislators and Department of Health and Health Care Authority officials. Their research was the focus of a Work Session for the Health and Wellness Committee in which they led the discussion on how the state can better support school […]

The State of the State, Professor Apostolidis, community partners, legislators and advocates all cited in the Guardian’s new piece on Latino politics in Washington State. Read it here at Guardian World News. “In the apple- and grape-laden Yakima valley in southern Washington state, Latinos drawn here by fruit-picking jobs have become the fastest growing sector of […]

“Although he raised no money and ran no campaign, Danielson won 30 of Washington’s 39 counties and got nearly 40 percent of the statewide vote in his race against State Supreme Court Justice Steve Gonzalez.” Read about it here at the Seattle Times