{"id":941,"date":"2020-06-23T22:29:13","date_gmt":"2020-06-24T03:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/?post_type=speaker&#038;p=941"},"modified":"2020-11-05T13:59:42","modified_gmt":"2020-11-05T18:59:42","slug":"victoria-defrancesco-soto","status":"publish","type":"speaker","link":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/speaker\/victoria-defrancesco-soto\/","title":{"rendered":"Victoria DeFrancesco Soto"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Victoria DeFrancesco Soto is assistant dean for civic engagement and a lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin, where she was selected as one of UT\u2019s Game Changers.&nbsp;She is also a faculty affiliate of the Department of Mexican-American and Latino Studies and the Center for Mexican American Studies.&nbsp;Soto received her Ph.D. in political science from Duke University, during which time she was a National Science Foundation Fellow. Named one of the top 12 scholars in the country by&nbsp;<em>Diverse<\/em>&nbsp;magazine, she&nbsp;previously taught at Northwestern University and Rutgers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>In her research and teaching,&nbsp;DeFrancesco Soto&nbsp;brings an interdisciplinary lens to the understanding of American politics and policy.&nbsp;Her areas of expertise include immigration, women and politics, political psychology&nbsp;and campaigns and elections.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>DeFrancesco Soto is a contributor to MSNBC and NBCNews.com, as well as a regular political analyst for Telemundo.&nbsp;She has provided on-air analysis for CNN, Fox, PBS, Univision and NPR, and has appeared on HBO\u2019s &#8220;Real Time with Bill Maher.&#8221; Most recently, she was a featured expert in the PBS documentary &#8220;Willie Velasquez:&nbsp;Your Vote is Your Voice,&#8221;&nbsp;about the civil rights trailblazer.&nbsp;DeFrancesco Soto also has been published in both academic and popular outlets such as&nbsp;<em>POLITICO<\/em>,&nbsp;<em>Talking Points Memo<\/em>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<em>Perspectives on Politics<\/em>, where she has translated social science research into a more relatable form of information for a wide variety of audiences.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":942,"template":"","class_list":{"0":"post-941","1":"speaker","2":"type-speaker","3":"status-publish","4":"has-post-thumbnail","6":"entry"},"acf":{"speaker_title":"Assistant Dean for Civic Engagement and a Lecturer at the LBJ School of Public Affairs at The University of Texas at Austin","speaker_last_name":"DeFrancesco Soto","speaker_classification":["Current Staff"]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/speaker"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/speaker\/941\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/podcasts.la.utexas.edu\/raceanddemocracy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}