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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Werner Schink is the co-founder and CEO of Latino Futures Research, which creates original economic and
demographic research in the United States. He has been Chief Economist of the California Employment
Development Department, Chief of California’s Job Training Program, and Chief of Research for the
Department of Social Services during welfare reform, among other leadership and research positions. He has
worked and partnered with the foremost social scientists in the U.S. from U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford,
RAND, and many other organizations. His other roles and affiliations include former President of the National
Association for Welfare Research and Statistics; member of the Joint Center for Poverty Research at the
University of Chicago and Northwestern University; member of the National Academy of Sciences. He is the
founder of Community and Local Neighborhood Research (CALNR), which provides socio-economic and
evaluation research to non-profit and governmental organizations.

David E. Hayes-Bautista, co-founder of Latinos Future Research, is also Distinguished Professor of
Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA. He is also the Director of the Center for the Study
of Latino Health and Culture, in the division of General Internal Medicine and Health Services Research. In
addition, he is the Faculty Director for the UCLA Anderson Graduate School of Management’s Latino
Leadership Institute for Executive Education. For 45 years, he has researched the epidemiology, demography,
and behavior of Latino populations, and his ground-breaking research has included discovering: the Latino
Epidemiological Paradox; Latino wellness metrics; inter-paternity and the limitations of race/ethnic categories
for medical research; and the Latino physician shortage. He is a frequent commentator for Univision, TV
Azteca, and Telemundo, and contributes columns to the Los Angeles Times and La Opinión. His most recent
book is a new edition of La Nueva California: Latinos from Pioneers to Post-Millennials, a data-based analysis
of Latinos in the U.S. from the 19th century through 2015, published by the University of California Press.

Hayes-Bautista and Schink have collaborated on public policy topics related to Latinos during more than 35 years.

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