Matt Barreto

Matt Barreto is a professor of political science and Chicana/o & Central American studies at UCLA. He was the founder and former director of the UCLA Latino Policy & Politics Institute and is currently the faculty director of the UCLA Voting Rights Project, one of the premier national institutes that focuses on legal training and expert research on voting rights.

Barreto’s research focuses on minority and immigrant voting behavior. He teaches courses on racial and ethnic politics, Latino politics, immigration politics, the Voting Rights Act, elections, research methods, and American politics. Part of his research agenda also includes public opinion and election surveys, including exit polling methodology and pre-election polls.  

His scholarly research has been published in the American Political Science Review, Political Research Quarterly, Social Science Quarterly, and Public Opinion Quarterly, among many other peer reviewed journals.

In 2024 he was a pollster and advisor to the Harris-Walz presidential campaign, and previously the Biden-Harris 2024 campaign.

Barreto is available to do interviews in Spanish.