An Evening with Paola Ramos

Paola Ramos is an author and Emmy award-winning journalist. Her book, Defectors: The Rise of the Latino Far Right and What it Means for America, casts aside the misguided notion that Latinos are a monolith and looks at the small but expanding part of the population moving steadily right. Through reporting trips and conversations with experts and psychologists alike, Ramos interrogates the idea that the Latino electorate is aligned with progressive values, writing about an Afro-Latino former Proud Boy leader, a Latino border vigilante, and Latino insurrectionists who participated in the January 6 US Capitol attack. As she persuasively proves, not all white supremacists are white.

Ramos will be in conversation with Professor Irene Mata, Director of the Suzy Newhouse Center and Professor of American Studies.