David R. Ayón

David R. Ayón is co-author of FORGING LATINO POWER: The Politics of Inclusion, Backlash & Resistance (December 2025); POWER SHIFT: How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America (2018), & Research Fellow of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles. He has chapters in numerous other books, including INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS OF CALIFORNIA & TEXAS WITH MEXICO & THE WORLD; CONTEMPORARY US-LATIN AMERICAN RELATIONS; OXFORD ENCYCLOPEDIA OF LATINOS & LATINAS IN CONTEMPORARY POLITICS, LAW & SOCIAL MOVEMENTS; & MEXICO'S DEMOCRATIC CHALLENGES: Politics, Government & Society. He’s taught at California universities from UC Berkeley & Stanford to UC San Diego; was Senior Adviser to the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center & the polling firm Latino Decisions; directed programs of the Mexico Institute & the USC School of International Relations; & has worked as analyst, consultant, columnist & special producer for Spanish-language TV electoral coverage in the US & Mexico. Twice Visiting Research Fellow of the Center for US-Mexican Studies, Ayón was educated at Princeton, Stanford & El Colegio de México. He’s a former director of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation, member of the Council on Foreign Relations, & serves on the editorial board of FOREIGN AFFAIRS LATINOAMÉRICA.