JOSHUA ULIBARRI

Joshua Estevan Ulibarri is a partner at LRP. His issue work covers the progressive spectrum and an impressive range of issues, including racial and LGBTQ+ equality, public education, poverty, health and science, young voters, humane treatment of animals, and jury research. He takes a keen interest in voters and candidates of color and folks who come from marginalized communities and backgrounds. Known as a leading researcher among his generation of consultants, he is among the best methodologists and moderators in the field and a sought-after Latino voice in progressive politics and government. He was named AAPC’s 2018 Pollster of the Year, making him the first Latino recipient.


Joshua’s work for political candidates crosses the spectrum from age and generation, to race and gender, and from identity to geography. He works for some of the most experienced Members of Congress (Gerry Connolly and former-Representative Sheila Jackson Lee), to some of the youngest (Maxwell Alejandro Frost in FL-10 and Yassamin Ansari in AZ-03). In the historic 2022 cycle, Joshua polled for Maxwell Alejandro Frost (who is the youngest and First Gen Z Member of Congress), Greg Casar in TX-35 (the first Latino to represent Austin), and Chris Deluzio in PA-17, covering Allegheny and Beaver Counties. In 2024, Joshua helped Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (MN-05) win her primary in a year when many progressives went down, and he helped bring Yassamin Ansari to Congress. Further, his IE work in 2022 contributed to electing two Latinos as Secretaries of State in Arizona and Nevada (with the ACLU) and electing the first Latina from Colorado to go to Congress (with the DCCC IE). Since 2018, Joshua and his team have polled for the DCCC IE, with one of the more impressive records contributing to important wins.


In 2024, Joshua and his team protected access to public education across the country by defeating dangerous vouchers schemes in Nebraska and Utah and ending Massachusetts’s standardized test graduation requirement. In 2022, Joshua worked to pass historic ballot measures across the country, successfully securing billions of new dollars for public education in Massachusetts, New Mexico, and West Virginia and restoring equal access to in-state tuition for DREAMers in Arizona. Twice now, he was the chief pollster for wealth-tax campaigns, passing historic measures in Massachusetts (2022) and Arizona (2020) – stringing together back-to-back wins after years when other measures fell short.


His other past and current political clients include former U.S. Senator Jon Tester, former-Congressman-turned-Senator Ruben Gallego, Congresista Sylvia Garcia (the first Latina Congresswoman from Texas), Phoenix Mayor Kate Gallego, Houston Mayor Annise Parker, San Antonio Mayor Ron Nirenberg, and Harris County Commissioners Adrian Garcia and Lesley Briones.


Having grown up in Kearns, Utah, Joshua now lives in Phoenix, Arizona. He graduated from the University of Utah and George Washington University’s Graduate School of Political Management.
"Joshua Ulibarri personifies the credibility, integrity and professionalism of Lake Research Partners, and the consulting, polling and analytical work that the entire LRP staff is capable of doing…breaking complex data into understandable language, and using innovative methodologies that are scientifically-based…[T]hey employ their expertise as a means to pursue a cause, and are an invaluable resource in assuring that the voices of the common people are heard…Josh and LRP are an inextricable part of PEN’s impact." 

Arnold F. Fege, Director of Public Engagement and Advocacy, Public Education Network, Washington, DC