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About Susan Magaña
In 2018, Susan Magaña led the data-driven outreach that flipped Nevada’s Clark County for a Latino congressional candidate, using bilingual microtargeting grounded in census tract-level church attendance, local radio listenership, and school board meeting participation, not just party affiliation. She pioneered the 'Barrio Index,' a proprietary metric blending housing policy exposure, ESL program density, and municipal bond voting patterns to forecast Latino electoral responsiveness more accurately than traditional demographic modeling. Her work redefined how national parties allocate GOTV resources: instead of broad ethnic appeals, she trains field staff to recognize cultural cues in neighborhood signage, small-business loan applications, and even quinceañera venue bookings as indicators of political readiness. Unlike consultants who treat Latino communities as monolithic, Magaña insists on granular segmentation, distinguishing between Salvadoran day laborers in Houston’s Gulfton and third-generation Mexican-American teachers in San Antonio’s North East ISD not by ancestry alone, but by generational trust in federal institutions and differential exposure to immigration enforcement trauma.
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- “How did the Barrio Index change resource allocation in the 2020 Arizona Senate race?”
- “What’s your take on the tension between bilingual ballot access and digital voter registration?”
- “How do you train canvassers to interpret cultural signals like storefront murals or panadería flyers?”
- “Why did you oppose the 2022 California redistricting map despite its Latino-majority districts?”