The Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, (TRPI) is a Latino

Latino

The demonyms Latino and Latina , are defined in English language dictionaries as:* "a person of Latin-American descent."* "A Latin American."* "A person of Hispanic, especially Latin-American, descent, often one living in the United States."...

 think tank

Think tank

A think tank is an organization that conducts research and engages in advocacy in areas such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, and technology issues. Most think tanks are non-profit organizations, which some countries such as the United States and Canada provide with tax...

 based at the School of Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California

University of Southern California

The University of Southern California is a private, not-for-profit, nonsectarian, research university located in Los Angeles, California, United States. USC was founded in 1880, making it California's oldest private research university...

. It is named after scholar Tomas Rivera

Tomás Rivera

Tomás Rivera was a Chicano author, poet, and educator. He was born in Texas to migrant farm workers, and worked in the fields as a young boy...

. It was founded in 1985 at Claremont Pitzer College and moved to USC in 2003.

TRPI focuses its research and policy advocacy activities into four main areas:

1. economic well-being;
2. educational issues faced by Latinos;
3. information technology and
4. political and civic engagement.

There is a satellite office at Columbia University

Columbia University

Columbia University in the City of New York is a private, Ivy League university in Manhattan, New York City. Columbia is the oldest institution of higher learning in the state of New York, the fifth oldest in the United States, and one of the country's nine Colonial Colleges founded before the...

. Harry Pachon is the Director of the Institute. In 2005, the Institute had over 30 million print citations and 80,000 website visitors.