David Ayòn

coauthor of Power Shift: How Latinos in California Transformed Politics in America, has written and taught on the politics and policymaking of Latinas/os, California, the US, Mexico, and Latin America at UC Berkeley, Stanford, UC Santa Cruz, Occidental College, USC, Loyola Marymount, and UC San Diego. His work is featured in The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latinas and Latinos in Contemporary Politics, Law, and Social Movements; International Relations of California and Texas with Mexico and the World; Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations, Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica; Mexico's Democratic Challenges; the opinion pages of Los Angeles Times, and other publications. A Senior Fellow of the Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Ayón has also served as Senior Advisor to the Mexico Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center, as well as to the firm Latino Decisions; directed programs of the Mexico Institute and the USC School of International Relations; and worked as analyst, consultant, political columnist (for Univision.com, 2014–15), and special producer for Spanish-language TV news for elections in the US and Mexico since 1992. Twice Visiting Research Fellow of the Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, Ayón was educated at Princeton, Stanford, and El Colegio de México. He is a former director of the U.S.-Mexico Foundation; serves on the editorial board of Foreign Affairs Latinoamérica, for which he has also acted as guest editor; and is a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, serving on its term membership committee.