Kenneth Burt is the political director for the California Federation of Teachers and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. The award-winning author is best known for his book, The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics, with a foreword by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. The book, covering the years 1939 to the present, was enhanced by rare interviews with the national heads of “Viva Kennedy” and “Viva Johnson”. Burt has also written about organized labor, the Cold War, and civil rights coalitions. This has led to chapters in five anthologies, an entry in The Encyclopedia of the American Left, 2nd ed., and numerous articles in academic journals, the popular press, and online. Burt serves on several boards, including the Harvard Journal of Hispanic Policy and the Edmund G. “Pat” Brown Institute of Public Affairs at California State University at Los Angeles. He is currently researching the role of Latinos in the various Roosevelt campaigns and in the New Deal generally.