Yulenni Venegas-Lopez is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Political Science at the University of Washington where she also serves as the Graduate Assistant for the Washington Institute for the Study of Inequality and Race (WISIR) and Director of the POLS/JSIS/LSJ/GWSS Writing Center. Yulenni’s research centers Latino identity and how Latinidad’s intersections across gender, race, and immigration status influence Latino’s engagement with political institutions. Prior to graduate school, she worked to help migrants get access to legal resources, battle workplace abuses, and in electoral campaigns. The Fund for Latino Scholarship supported both her attendance in the 2024 APSA Annual Meeting and in data collection of her dissertation project, which examines Latino Republicanism by studying Latino Republican candidates. She seeks to understand what vision of Latinidad these candidates represent and interrogates the role gender plays in influencing Latino Republican’s views of Latinidad, immigration, and what they present as an alternate path of Latino political empowerment via the Republican party.
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