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I am currently an Assistant Professor in the department of Politics and International Affairs at Northern Arizona University. I have a Ph.D. in political science from the University of California, Irvine and a B.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles. My research interests include Latino partisanship, political participation and political mobilization.

I am also a Research Associate at the Thomas and Dorothy Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles at Loyola Marymount University. I have co-sponsored or has been the principle researcher in several exit polling projects and I am working on several research projects concerned with the politics of immigration, Latino attitudes on sexual orientation and the effectiveness of co-ethnic political recruitment.

I am a proud native of Los Angeles, born in the historically rich city of Boyle Heights, California. I am married to Mackenzie and have four children; Isabella (6), Jacqueline "Quinn" (4), Evangeline (2) and Santiago (2 months).