Matt A. Barreto | Source | Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o Studies at UCLA

Matt is a Professor of Political Science and Chicana/o & Central American Studies at UCLA and the co-founder of the research and polling firm BSP Research. He is currently a senior advisor to the Biden White House C4 entity Building Back Together and conducts polling for the DNC and White House. At UCLA, Matt founded the research center, Latino Policy & Politics Institute (LPPI) and the UCLA Voting Rights Project (VRP). He previously co-founded the research firm Latino Decisions. Time Magazine called Barreto's work the “gold-standard in Latino American polling." Barreto’s research was recognized in the 30 Latinos key to the 2012 election by Politic365, listed in the Top 100 Global Thinkers of 2012 by the European Politics Magazine LSDP, and was named one of the top 15 leading Latino pundits by Huffington Post which said Barreto was “the pollster that has his finger on the pulse of the Latino electorate.” In 2020 Barreto was hired by the Joe Biden presidential campaign to direct polling and focus group research for Latino voters. In the prior cycle, Barreto conducted polling and focus groups for the 2016 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign. That same year, he also directed Latino outreach research for the U.S. Senate campaigns of Catherine Cortez-Masto (NV) and Michael Bennet (CO).