Assistant professor Fernando Tormos-Aponte, environmental policy and politics scholar Gustavo Garcia-Lopez, and…
Category: 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…
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…
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 Tower Center.
Event Recap | The Latina Advantage: Setting a National Leadership Agenda
The SMU Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership Development hosted the…
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 earlier this month interested in understanding the Latino experience in the United States focusing on issues such as immigration and education.
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 at the Texas State Capitol in Austin.
The conference is designed to highlight and stimulate discussion on the issues most pressing to the Latino community in Texas and the broader U.S. The six panels, comprised of a mix of national experts, state and municipal leadership, as well as local stakeholders, will explore solutions around the 2020 Census, redistricting, voter rights, immigration, unaccompanied minors, and U.S. – Mexico relations.
Postdoctoral Fellow Danielle Lemi Published in Du Bois Review
Our Postdoctoral Fellow in Latino Public Policy Danielle Lemi had her work “Are…
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 of housing and amenities for low-income locals. HCM Tower Scholar Destiny Rose Murphy wrote about what she learned.
Dallas Morning News reports on Tower Center-LCLD healthcare policy forum
The Tower Center and Latino Center for Leadership and Development (LCLD) held…