Linda Chavez

Senior Fellow

Linda Chavez is president of the Becoming American Institute, a non-profit public policy organization in Boulder, CO.  She is the author of Out of the Barrio: Toward a New Politics of Hispanic Assimilation (Basic Books 1991), which the Denver Post described as a book that “should explode the stereotypes about Hispanics that have clouded the minds of patronizing liberals and xenophobic conservatives alike.” 

Chavez has held a number of appointed positions, among them Chairman, National Commission on Migrant Education (1988-1992); White House Director of Public Liaison (1985); Staff Director of the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights (1983-1985); and she was a member of the Administrative Conference of the United States (1984-1986).  Chavez was the Republican nominee for U.S. Senator from Maryland in 1986.  In 1992, she was elected by the United Nations’ Human Rights Commission to serve a four-year term as U.S. Expert to the U.N. Sub-commission on the Prevention of Discrimination and Protection of Minorities. 

In the News

Op-Ed: Resurrecting the Refugee Resettlement Program
September 24, 2020 • Linda Chavez
Op-Ed: Democrats, You Can’t Count On the Hispanic Vote
September 23, 2020 • Linda Chavez
Op-Ed: Democrats, You Can’t Count On the Hispanic Vote
September 23, 2020 • Linda Chavez
Op-Ed: How to Win the Latino Vote
September 11, 2020 • Linda Chavez

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