She is the faculty director of a Wisconsin public opinion survey, the Badger Poll. She is the author of Talking about Race: Community Dialogues and the Politics of Difference (University of Chicago Press, 2007). Lynet Uttal is a professor in UW�Madison�s Department of Human Development and Family Studies and director of the Asian American Studies Program. Her current research on Latino immigrant families draws on community-based research and education workshops that were conducted in Dane County. She is the author of Making Care Work: Employed Mothers in the New Childcare Economy (Rutgers University Press, 2002)