The Latinx and Democracy Cluster (LDC) vision is to build a thriving interdisciplinary intellectual community that supports individual and collaborative research to enhance justice, equity, and inclusion for Latinx people in California and nationwide.
Increasing the committment for Latinx focused research is crucial for campus becoming a Latinx thriving institution. Toward that end, the university has adopted the "faculty cluster hires" strategy to build intellectual communities in emerging research areas. Cluster hires recruits and onboards faculty with shared academic interests to work collaboratively on interdisciplinary problems to meet a university's goals. This is just another example of how UC Berkeley is changing and reimagining how we make this campus more inclusive and welcoming.