The Latina Advantage: Gender, Race, and Political Success

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments I would like to thank Gary Segura for continuing to serve as an invaluable advisor to me since graduate school. I am thankful for Valerie Martinez-Ebers, who has always encouraged me to pursue my goals as a scholar. I express thanks to the University of Iowa faculty who served on my dissertation committee: Douglas Dion, David Redlawsk, Vicki Hesli, Maria Vélez, and Aimee Carrillo Rowe. I am grateful to Rene Rocha, Holley Hansen, and Stephen Nemeth for their help and support during my dissertation-writing time at the University of Iowa. I gratefully acknowledge the financial support I received from the University of Iowa and the University of Kansas. I thank Trisha Blunt for her research assistance with one of the chapters. I am appreciative of my fellow University of Kansas faculty members, and I am especially grateful for the support and advice of Alesha Doan, Hannah Britton, Don Haider-Markel, Brent Steele, and Jessica Vasquez, who were helpful early in the book process. I thank Kira Sanbonmatsu for providing valuable feedback early in the book proposal stage. I also thank the anonymous reviewers and my editor, Theresa May, for their constructive help with this project. THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK The Latina Advantage THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...