Lisa Garcia Bedolla

Chancellor's Professor

School of Education

Dept of Political Science

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Research Bio

Professor García Bedolla’s research focuses on how marginalization and inequality structure the political and educational opportunities available to members of ethnoracial groups, with a particular emphasis on the intersections of race, class, and gender. Her current projects include an analysis of how technology can facilitate voter mobilization among voters of color in California and a historical exploration of the race, gender, and class inequality at the heart of the founding of California's public school system.

Research Expertise and Interest

politics, immigration, race, gender, inequality, community-engaged research/scholarship, community-based research partnerships

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Economy, Sexism and Conspiracies Fueled Trump’s Reelection

UC Berkeley scholars offer a sharp and sometimes unsettling assessment of election dynamics at play.

Vice President Kamala Harris speaks into a microphone outside of the White House, with a serious expression. President Joe Biden is to her side and slightly behind her, also looking serious.

Shifting From Biden to Harris, Democrats Reset the Race. But Scholars See Risks.

UC Berkeley scholars say President Joe Biden’s departure from the race could expand Democrats’ base. But the outcome may turn on whether they can craft a message that will ease race and gender tensions and galvanize young voters.

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Facing Legal Peril, Trump Stokes Racial, Gender Resentment in His Base

Berkeley scholars say that by attacking the prosecutors and judges in his cases, the former president is trying to discredit the charges, rall

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Berkeley Leaders, Scholars React to Supreme Court’s Decision on Affirmative Action

They warned the decision will reduce opportunities for people of color and thwart the nation’s progress toward racial equality.

Berkeley moves to the forefront in California political polling

In just the last three years, the Berkeley IGS Poll has risen to the forefront of a new era in polling, tapping into information that Californians may choose to provide — their age, race, ethnicity, gender and political affiliation — when they register to vote. And while the poll, produced by UC Berkeley’s Institute of Governmental Studies (IGS), is focused only on California, its reputation as a leading poll has gained national prominence.

“Data for Social Good”: A New Strategy to Strengthen Citizenship

Signatures Fellow Lisa Garcia Bedolla works to help more people join in the political process, locally and nationally.

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Three new Signatures Innovation Fellows announced

Three faculty members have been selected as 2016-17 Signatures Innovation Fellows, receiving as much as $100,000 per year each for up to two years to pursue commercially promising data science and software projects.

New GOTV efforts could help Latino voters achieve political potential, says researcher

Lisa García Bedolla, a University of California, Berkeley, expert on voter mobilization, says Latinos are far from casting votes in numbers that truly reflect their growing population and potential political power.

Researchers give low marks to California’s English proficiency test for kindergartners

Most of the thousands of four- and five-year-olds who take California’s official test for English language proficiency before they start kindergarten are bound to fail that exam, according to a new University of California, Berkeley, study.

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October 20, 2020

'They've Dismissed Us': How Latino Voter Outreach Still Falls Short

NPR

Sam Sanders, Andrea Gutierrez, Star McCown and Jordana Hochman

Latinos are the second largest group of eligible voters by race or ethnicity in the United States, but they continue to be misunderstood and underappreciated by political campaigns of all parties. NPR talks to scholar Lisa Garcia Bedolla, professor at UC Berkeley and author of the book Latino Politics, about how the word "Latino" encompasses diverse communities of all political stripes and all life experiences and what effective - and respectful - outreach to Latino voters would look like.

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