Education

Master of Public Policy Degree
University of California, Los Angeles
Luskin School of Public Affairs

June 2020

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science
University of California, Riverside
Magna Cum Laude

June 2017

Work Experience

UCLA Voting Rights Project
UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Initiative

  • Senior Data Scientist — June 2024 – Present
  • Data Scientist — Feb. 2022 – June 2024
  • Research Analyst — June 2021 – Feb. 2022
  • Policy Fellow — June 2019 – June 2021

Research Experience

White Papers

  • Riverside County Redistricting Memo (December 2021)
  • UCLA VRP Report Urges Changes to Proposed Maps in Yolo County to Preserve the Strength of the Latino Vote (November 2021)
  • Georgia: COVID‑19 and Language Access Litigation (November 2020)
  • Voting and Infection Prevention of COVID‑19 (April 2020)

Policy Reports

  • UCLA VRP Report Urges Orange County to Create Its First Latino‑Majority District during the 2021 Redistricting Process (November 2021)
  • Latino Voters in the 2021 Recall Election (September 2021)
  • Opportunities and Challenges Facing California with the 2021 California Recall (July 2021)
  • Latinas Exiting the Workforce: How the Pandemic Revealed Historic Disadvantages and Heightened Economic Hardship (August 2021)
  • Analysis of New York State’s Absentee Ballot Laws and Process and the Immediate Need for Absentee Ballot Reform (August 2020)

Expert Consulting on Voting Rights

  • Clarke v. Town of Newburgh (June 2024)
  • Aquino et al. v. Hazleton Area School District (May 2024)
  • Nord Hodges v. Passidomo and Byrd (April 2024)
  • Democracy Project II. Pierce v. NC State Board of Elections (November 2023)
  • Maryland Statewide Redistricting (March 2022)
  • Baltimore County Branch of the NAACP v. Baltimore County, Maryland (February 2022)
  • Navajo Nation, et al. v. San Juan County, NM et al. (February 2022)
  • Soto Palmer et al. v. Hobbs et al. (January 2022)
  • Brooks et al. v. Abbott et al. (November 2021)
  • Dallas County Commissioners Redistricting (November 2021)
  • Harris County Commissioners Redistricting (November 2021)
  • Fort Bend County Commissioners Redistricting (November 2021)
  • Native American Rights Fund findings on access to absentee ballot dropboxes in Trump et al. vs. Cegavske (September 2020)
  • Gabriel et al. v. Franklin County et al. (October 2020)
  • Texas League of United Latin American Citizens v. Abbott (October 2020)

Quantitative Data Analysis

Programming Languages and Software:

  • R
  • RStudio
  • Maptitude
  • ESRI Redistricting
  • ArcGIS
  • Social Explorer
  • Python
  • Microsoft Excel

Michael Rios
(909) 465‑3947
rioscivicanalytics@gmail.com