Matt A. Barreto

Matthew Alejandro Barreto (born June 6, 1976) is a political scientist. and co-founder of the national polling and research firm [https://bspresearch.com/our-team Barreto Segura Partners Research].

Barreto is Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles and a leading expert on Latino political behavior and public opinion. Before moving to UCLA he taught at the University of Washington. In 2020 he was lead Latino pollster for the Biden Presidential campaign and in 2021 was named senior advisor to the Biden White House-aligned group Building Back Together. He has prepared expert reports and expert testimony in several lawsuits challenging voter identification laws in Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, North Carolina, and North Dakota and is considered a leading expert on the impact of voter identification laws. In 2007 Barreto co-founded the polling firm Latino Decisions with [http://www.latinodecisions.com/about/our-team/gary-m-segura/ Dr. Gary Segura], as a political consulting firm specializing in Latino voter behavior. In 2021 Barreto and Segura left Latino Decisions to form a new Latino-owned political consulting firm, [https://bspresearch.com/our-team Barreto Segura Partners]. In 2015 Barreto was hired by the Hillary Clinton presidential campaign to manage Latino polling and focus group research. His 2013 book [http://press.princeton.edu/titles/9954.html Change They Can't Believe In: The Tea Party and Reactionary Politics in America] (co-authored with [https://www.polisci.washington.edu/people/christopher-sebastian-parker Dr. Christopher Parker]) won an American Political Science Association Best Book Award, and his 2014 book [http://www.publicaffairsbooks.com/book/hardcover/latino-america/9781610395014 Latino America: How America's Most Dynamic Population is Poised to Transform the Politics of the Nation] was reviewed by the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and Publishers Weekly, and was featured in interviews on MSNBC, PBS, C-SPAN, NPR, and Univision. Provided by Wikipedia