TRPI focuses its research and policy advocacy activities into four main areas:
economic well-being;
educational issues faced by Latinos;
information technology and
political and civic engagement.
There is a satellite office at Columbia University. Harry Pachon was the former director of the institute.[1] In 2005, the institute had over 30 million print citations and 80,000 website visitors.[2] The institute relaunched in Fall 2011 under the leadership of a new director, Roberto Suro.[3]