Chris Zepeda-Millán

Chris Zepeda-Millán is a professor of Chicana/o and Central American studies and of public policy at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs, with joint appointments in Sociology, Labor Studies, and Political Science. 

Zepeda-Millán’s research centers on social movements, Latino politics, immigration policy and public opinion. He has been involved in various social movements related to environmental and global justice, as well as labor, student, immigrant and indigenous rights. In 2023, he founded and presently serves as the faculty director of the UCLA Strategic Research Lab, a capacity-building training hub and network for applied researchers from labor and other social movements.

He is the author of “Latino Mass Mobilization: Immigration, Racialization, and Activism” and "Walls, Cages & Family Separation: Race and Immigration Policy in the Trump Era.”