The Latinx and Democracy Cluster (LDC) 

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Overview

The Latinx and Democracy Cluster (LDC) is a group of researchers and scholars at UC Berkeley dedicated to catalyzing social change for Latinx populations. The LDC seeks to promote a thriving interdisciplinary intellectual community that supports individual and collaborative research to enhance justice, equity, and inclusion for Latino people in California and nationwide. 

Comprising sociologists, historians, public health scholars, political scientists, and social welfare scholars, the LDC brings together seven new leading researchers working across disciplines to contribute to transforming UC Berkeley into a primary hub of Latinx-focused social science scholarship.

The LDC members are Dr. Jenny S. Guadamuz(link is external) (School of Public Health(link is external)), Dr. Kristina Lovato(link is external) (School of Social Welfare(link is external)), Dr. Lorena Oropeza(link is external)(link is external) (Ethnic Studies(link is external)), Dr. Laurent Reyes(link is external) (School of Social Welfare(link is external)), Dr. Michael Rodríguez-Muñiz (link is external)(Sociology(link is external)), Dr. Nicholas Vargas(link is external)(link is external) (Ethnic Studies(link is external)), and Dr. Stephanie Zonszein(link is external) (Political Science(link is external)).