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Latino Public Policy

Energy inequality and clientelism in the wake of disasters: From colorblind to affirmative power restoration

Assistant professor Fernando Tormos-Aponte, environmental policy and politics scholar Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, and political scientist and scholar Mary Angelica Painter conducted a study about energy inequality in the wake of disasters. […]

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Latino Public Policy

Settling Resistant Territorial Disputes: The Territorial Boundary Peace in Latin America

Dr. Luis L Schenoni, Gary Goertz, Andrew P Owsiak, and Paul F Diehl wrote about why some territorial disputes defy settlement and through what mechanism these resistant territorial disputes might be settled. […]

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Latino Public Policy

Navigating legality: transnational mixed-status families and the U.S. family-based immigration

Tower Center Associate Jennifer Cook wrote about how as ‘legal’ immigrants, Mexicans with U.S. lawful permanent resident status have the rare opportunity to petition for immigrant visas for certain eligible […]

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Center News Latino Public Policy

SMU Hosts Latino Leadership Academy Forum

Ten community leaders from all different backgrounds flocked to SMU’s campus Dec. 7 to attend their third Latino Center for Leadership Development (LCLD) Leadership Academy forum hosted by the SMU […]

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Event Recap | The Latina Advantage: Setting a National Leadership Agenda

The SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership Development hosted the program  “The Latina Advantage: Setting a National Leadership Agenda” at SMU Oct. 11. Dr. Cristina Bejarano, Associate Professor […]

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Tower Center and LCLD Award New Class of Research Grants

After receiving more than 50 applications from scholars across the United States, the Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) and the SMU Tower Center awarded seven grants to scholars […]

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The Tower Center and LatinoCLD Host National Conference, Release First Series of Policy Briefs

DALLAS, TX – The SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) are hosting The Nation at a Crossroads: A National Latino Policy Conference on June 9 […]

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Fellows in the News Latino Public Policy

Postdoctoral Fellow Danielle Lemi Published in Du Bois Review

Our Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Public Policy Danielle Lemi had her work “Are Asian Americans who have Interracial Relationships Politically Distinct?” coauthored with Augustine Kposowa published by the Cambridge University Press’ […]

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Student Blog | Gente-fication: The Changing Face of Urban Development

The SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership and Development co-hosted a policy forum discussing “gente-fication” and various policy solutions that could reduce the impact of the rising costs […]

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Dallas Morning News reports on Tower Center-LCLD healthcare policy forum

The Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) held a policy forum Oct. 10 called “The Status of Latino Health in a Shifting Political Landscape.” The forum […]