ADL and LULAC Announce Groundbreaking Partnership to Track and Disrupt Anti-Latino Hate

New collaboration will embed LULAC researcher within ADL Center on Extremism and produce the first-ever State of Anti-Latino Hate report

New York, June 18, 2026 – ADL, (the Anti-Defamation League) the world's leading anti-hate organization, and the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC), the nation's oldest and largest Latino civil rights organization, today announce a groundbreaking new partnership to systematically track, report on and disrupt hate targeting the Latino community in the United States.

This collaboration is anchored by a dedicated LULAC researcher embedded within the ADL Center on Extremism (COE). This researcher will leverage LULAC’s unparalleled reach and deep community trust alongside COE’s best-in-class team of researchers and analysts to conduct hate incident tracking, data collection and threat analysis for the Latino community. Together, they will build a first-of-its-kind infrastructure for documenting anti-Latino hate, culminating in the first-ever State of Anti-Latino Hate report: a comprehensive look at hate-related trends targeting the Latino community nationally.

This announcement was made at the 2026 LULAC National Convention in Dallas Ft. Worth, where ADL CEO Jonathan Greenblatt joined LULAC CEO Juan Proaño for a conversation on the importance of addressing antisemitism and anti-Latino hate together and the power of cross-community solidarity in the fight against hate.

"Hate against any community is a threat to every community," said Jonathan Greenblatt, CEO and National Director, ADL. "For more than a century, ADL has built the expertise, tools and infrastructure to track antisemitism and other forms of hate. By bringing that knowledge directly into LULAC's work, we can help ensure that anti-Latino hate is documented with the same rigor and met with the same urgency. This is what it looks like to fight hate for good, together."

"For too long, anti-Latino hate has been experienced by our communities but overlooked in the national conversation. This partnership is about changing that,” said Juan Proaño, CEO, LULAC. “It sends a clear message that our experiences deserve to be documented, our voices deserve to be heard, and the facts deserve to be known. By working with ADL, LULAC is helping build the first national record of anti-Latino hate so that what has too often been overlooked can no longer be ignored."

Through this partnership, the two organizations will:

• Embed a LULAC researcher within the ADL Center on Extremism to build capacity for hate incident tracking and data collection, modeled on ADL's established methodology for documenting antisemitism and other forms of bias;
• Produce the first-ever State of Anti-Latino Hate report, offering a comprehensive, data-driven analysis of hate-related trends targeting the Latino community in the United States;
• Share intelligence and analysis between ADL Center on Extremism experts and LULAC's research and policy team to strengthen both organizations' understanding of the hate landscape affecting Latino communities; and
• Develop joint strategies to disrupt anti-Latino hate and advance community safety.

The collaboration builds on a growing relationship between ADL and LULAC, including LULAC's participation in ADL's Never Is Now, the world's largest summit on antisemitism and hate, where leaders from both organizations have spoken together about the importance of cross-community allyship and coalition-building.

About LULAC
The League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) is the nation's oldest and most widely recognized national Hispanic civil rights organization. LULAC advances the economic condition, educational attainment, political influence, housing, health and civil rights of Hispanic Americans through community-based programs operating at more than 1,000 councils nationwide.