Latino Insights

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Welcome to Latino Insights, a podcast brought to you by the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. Join us as we discuss research that directly impacts the Latino community in our state. This podcast serves as a bridge between academia and the broader public, aiming to disseminate crucial findings and shed light on pressing issues affecting Latinos. Through Latino Insights, we strive to create an inclusive space that fosters dialogue, awareness, and unity among our community. Subscribe and become part of a community dedicated to shaping a more equitable future for Latinos.

  1. 1d ago

    Emergency Room Use Among Latinos

    Dr. Christopher Hudson, who works as a Clinical Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine at the University of Nevada, Reno, stops by to discuss the conversations with the Latino Research Center around Latinos' use of the Emergency Room (ER). Dr. Hudson speaks to patterns of ER utilization, barriers to healthcare access and the overal goals intended with this research.

    32 min

  2. Mar 24

    Farmworker Challenges: Healthcare Access, Justice, Child Resilience

    In our conversation with Dr. Miguel Ambriz, we dive into the various barriers that farmworkers face. He focused on three main topics of discussion, farmworkers' restricted access to healthcare, the reasons why they rarely take a day off, the challenges that accompany women's sexual harassment and sexual assault testimonios combined with workplace oppression. Dr.  Ambriz also commented on the immigrant farmworker children and legal resiliency despite the many obstacles they face.

    49 min

  3. Feb 12

    Gender-Based Violence across the Americas

    Dra. Lydia Huerta introduces our audience to her new book, Mourning and Mobilization: The Affective Politics of Women Killings. Dra. Huerta elaborates on the issue of gender-based violence and the relationship between grief, social media and the advocacy that lead to eventual political action. Although the audience may be familiar with the murders of women in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico, Mourning and Mobilization goes beyond Mexico and the United States. Dra. Huerta explains that a society in which girls and women are devalued produce environments where femicides occur in such large numbers that they're diffult to adequately track.

    37 min

  4. 12/30/2025

    Socio-Legal History of Child Migration to the United States - Dra. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez

    Dra. Ivón Padilla-Rodríguez is an alumna from the University of Nevada, Reno. She currently works at the University of Illinois Chicago where she specializes in child migration to the United States. Dra. Padilla-Rodríguez is currently working on a book manuscript which has given her the opportunity to collaborate with organizations in both the United States and Mexico. Through her in-depth research she has found records, long-neglected, about the treatment of migrant families upon arriving to the U.S. and she explores concepts such as the "school-to-deportation" pipeline and how this is tied to a person's "alienage" in the United States.

    44 min

  5. 10/09/2025

    Dr. Raúl Fregoso Bailón: Knowledge creation among educators

    On this episode of Latino Insights, Dr. Fregoso Bailón talks with us about the value in seeing educators as creators of knowledge. The joint research with the Latino Research Center seeks to collect narrative pieces from educators of all levels in an effort to showcase the teachers themselves but also the work they produce as they instruct students. Dr. Fregoso Bailón poses the idea that educators are also philosophers. Take a listen!

    37 min

  6. 07/22/2025

    Government and Community Engagement - A conversation with Vice President Michael Flores

    VP Michael Flores stops by to visit with Latino Insights! He helps us understand the importance of the Office of Government and Community Engagement within the University of Nevada, Reno and throughout the entire State of Nevada. He has a powerful personal story with which many people will relate.

    25 min

  7. 06/10/2025

    Latino Housing Security and Mental Health

    In Nevada and in the entire United States data about Latino Housing Security has been close to non-existent. Dr. Jessie Clark explains how a study done in collaboration with Dr. Julie Lucero and Ms. Victoria Rios, and funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, has shed some light on Latinos, their housing arrangements and how these affect their mental health. Dr. Clark's background in cultural and political geography has taken her all over the world and for this study, her experience provides a unique perspective.

    33 min

  8. 03/06/2025

    Alzheimer's and Parkinson's: A Conversation with Dr. Rubén Dagda

    Dr. Dagda shares how his team's research is on the front lines of the fight to cure Alzheimer's and Parkinson's. In the United States, approximately 6.7 million people live with Alzheimer's disease and over 1 million people have been diagnosed with Parkinson's. According to research, there is some crossover between certain proteins in models and cell cultures for both diseases.

    44 min
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Welcome to Latino Insights, a podcast brought to you by the Latino Research Center at the University of Nevada, Reno. Join us as we discuss research that directly impacts the Latino community in our state. This podcast serves as a bridge between academia and the broader public, aiming to disseminate crucial findings and shed light on pressing issues affecting Latinos. Through Latino Insights, we strive to create an inclusive space that fosters dialogue, awareness, and unity among our community. Subscribe and become part of a community dedicated to shaping a more equitable future for Latinos.

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