Brennan Center for Justice Launches Brennan en español

The Bren­nan Center for Justice today launched Bren­nan en español, a Span­ish-language site at bren­nan­cen­ter.org/es that features research and analysis about voting, redis­trict­ing, crim­inal justice, and other issues partic­u­larly relev­ant to Span­ish-language and bilin­gual audi­ences.

“The Bren­nan Center is fight­ing crit­ical battles over voting, the census, redis­trict­ing, and many other issues that directly impact Lati­nos in the United States. We’ve built Bren­nan en español to ensure that Span­ish speak­ers can access our work and put it to use,” said Mireya Navarro, editor-in-chief of Bren­nan en español. “Language should never be a barrier to parti­cip­at­ing in demo­cracy.”  

Bren­nan en español is built to be a resource for the Span­ish-speak­ing and bilin­gual public, media, and organ­iz­a­tions to help dispel misin­form­a­tion about voting, elec­tions and other issues related to our demo­cracy and justice system. It will provide timely analysis and initi­at­ives through­out the year, espe­cially as the midterms approach.

Some key content now on Bren­nan en español:

• Comba­tiendo falsedades (Fight­ing False­hoods,) a feature debunk­ing disin­form­a­tion on issues of voting, crim­inal justice and demo­cracy.

• Los lati­nos y la demo­cra­cia (Lati­nos and Demo­cracy,) stat­ist­ics and other data about the polit­ical power of Lati­nos and their role in demo­cracy in the United States.

• Articles about voter suppres­sion laws that dispro­por­tion­ately affect Lati­nos, how citizens can help protect voting rights and the fair­ness of elec­tions, and how Latino youth become engaged in our demo­cracy through voting, volun­teer­ing and activ­ism.

Bren­nan en español will expand on the Bren­nan Center’s part­ner­ships with lead­ers in the Latino advocacy community, such as Hispanic Feder­a­tion and Latino­Justice-PRLDEF, collab­or­at­ing with them on content for the site, public educa­tion campaigns and live events in Span­ish. Recently, the Bren­nan Center and Hispanic Feder­a­tion co-hosted four virtual panels about the redis­trict­ing process in four key states – Texas, Geor­gia, Flor­ida, and North Caro­lina.

“Lati­nos have driven our coun­try’s growth over the last decade, yet they have not received the repres­ent­a­tion in govern­ment they deserve,” said Michael Wald­man, pres­id­ent of the Bren­nan Center for Justice.

“As ideo­logues try to block Latinos’ parti­cip­a­tion in our demo­cracy, it is espe­cially import­ant that Span­ish speak­ers in the United States have a source of qual­ity inform­a­tion and analysis.”

Through­out the years, and partic­u­larly during the 2020 elec­tion, the Bren­nan Center provided qual­ity analysis and inform­a­tion about our demo­cracy, elec­tions, and the justice system to high-impact audi­ences, includ­ing members of the press who report in Span­ish. This new initi­at­ive grows out of that success­ful effort, with the Bren­nan Center widen­ing the scope to reach a broader audi­ence.