Zabdi R. Velásquez

I am a Ph.D. student in Political Science at UCLA, where I was awarded the Eugene V. Cota-Robles Fellowship by UCLA's Division of Graduate Education and nominated by my faculty advisor for UCLA's Competitive Edge Summer Bridge Program.

Prior to UCLA, I attended the University of California Riverside where I received a Political Science & International Affairs BA. As a Research Assistant in Dr. Kim Yi Dionne's Publicly Engaged Research Lab, I co-authored an article submitted to the PS: Political Science & Politics journal. The article, for which I am the first author, is titled: Undergraduates and Political Science Research: Insights from Research Assistants in a Minority-Serving Institution Lab and was published on 29 March 2023.

My research interests in Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (REP) & Comparative Politics stem from my undergraduate work with Professor Kim Yi Dionne at UC Riverside.