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In partnership with High Country News, we dive into what the Latino vote looks like in Yakima, Washington, a region where the number of Latinos has doubled since 1970, and as of 2020, where Latinos make up the majority. Through the reporting of journalist Natalia Mesa and photographer Roberto “Bear” Guerra, we will witness those working to increase representation of the Latino vote.
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presidential election. In Nevada, a battleground state, Latinos are 1 in 5 registered voters, making them a sought after commodity. In early August, the powerful Culinary Union, which represents 60,000 hospitality workers in Las Vegas and Reno, more than half of whom are Latino, endorsed Harris.
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Keyanna Ortiz-Cedeño is an Afro-Latina voter and a UC Berkeley graduate based in the San Francisco Bay Area. As someone raised in rural Texas and has lived on both coasts, Ortiz-Cedeño reflects on the role of Afro-Latinos in a national conversation around the “Latino Vote.” With the first mixed-race Black woman running for president, she feels Afro-Latinos are a poorly understood voting bloc.
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