The Purple Line: Episode 57 with Dr. Mark Hugo Lopez
Dr. Mark Hugo Lopez is Director of Race and Ethnicity Research at the Pew Research Center, where he coordinates the National Survey of Latinos. Both sides of his family worked the fields of Mexico during the Revolution before settling in California, where his father rose from meat packer to principal and his mother from bank teller to elite cosmetic sales director. A young Mark took notes on the evening news, a habit that sharpened his English. He chose Berkeley over Stanford and Yale, then went on to Princeton, where he nearly walked away in his first six weeks. He stayed, earned his Ph.D…
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