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Demetrios G. Papademetriou is the President of the Migration Policy Institute
(MPI), a Washington-based think tank dedicated exclusively to the study of
international migration. He is also the convener of the Transatlantic Council
on Migration and its predecessor, the Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration
and Integration (co-convened with the Bertelsmann Stiftung). The Council is
composed of senior public figures, business leaders, and public intellectuals
from Europe, the United States, and Canada. Dr. Papademetriou also convenes
the Athens Migration Policy Initiative (AMPI), a task force of mostly European
senior immigration experts that advises EU Member States on immigration and
asylum issues, and the Co-Founder and International Chair Emeritus of Metropolis:
An International Forum for Research and Policy on Migration and Cities. Read the Washington Post profile of Demetrios Papademetriou, July 27, 2001, or his profile in Government Executive's "Homeland Security 100: Profiles of Key Government Officials and Outside Experts," February 2004. Additional interview language: Greek
Michael Fix is Senior Vice President and Director of Studies at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), as well as the Co-Director of MPI's National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy. His work focuses on immigrant integration, citizenship policy, immigrant children and families, the education of immigrant students, the effect of welfare reform on immigrants, and the impact of immigrants on the US labor force. Mr. Fix, who is an attorney, previously was at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program from 1998 through 2004. His research at the Urban Institute focused on immigrants and integration, regulatory reform, federalism, race, and the measurement of discrimination. Mr. Fix is a Research Fellow with IZA in Bonn, Germany. He served on the National Academy of Sciences' Committee on the Redesign of US Naturalization Tests and is a member of the Advisory Panel to the Foundation for Child Development's Young Scholars Program. In November 2005, Mr. Fix was a New Millennium Distinguished Visiting Scholar at Columbia University's School of Social Work. His recent publications include Los Angeles on the Leading Edge: Immigrant Integration Indicators and Their Policy Implications, Adult English Language Instruction in the United States: Determining Need and Investing Wisely, Measures of Change: The Demography and Literacy of Adolescent English Learners, and Securing the Future: US Immigrant Integration Policy, A Reader (editor). His past research explored the implementation of employer sanctions and other reforms introduced by the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. Mr. Fix received a JD from The University of Virginia and BA from Princeton University. He did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics. Read the Washington Post profile of Michael Fix, December 24, 2004.
Donald Kerwin is Vice President for Programs at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), overseeing all of MPI's national and international programs. Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Kerwin worked for more than 16 years at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), serving as Executive Director for nearly 15 years. CLINIC is a public interest legal corporation that supports a national network of 173 charitable legal programs for immigrants in more than 270 locations. Upon his arrival at CLINIC in 1992, Mr. Kerwin directed CLINIC's political asylum project for Haitians. He became CLINIC's Executive Director in December 1993 and during his tenure, CLINIC coordinated the nation's largest political asylum, detainee services, immigration appeals, and naturalization programs. CLINIC also offers the nation's most extensive training and legal support programs for community-based immigrant agencies. Mr. Kerwin is an advisor to the American Bar Association's Commission on Immigration, a member of the Council on Foreign Relations' Immigration Task Force, on the board of directors of Jesuit Refugee Services-USA, and an associate fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center. Mr. Kerwin is a 1984 graduate of Georgetown University and a 1989 graduate of the University of Michigan Law School.
Kathleen Newland is co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute and directs MPI's programs on migrants, migration, and development and comprehensive protection for refugees and internally displaced people. Her work focuses on the relationship between migration and development, governance of international migration, and refugee protection. Previously, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she was a Senior Associate and then Co-director of the International Migration Policy Program (1994-2001). She sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee, and is a Chair Emerita of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children. She is also on the Board of the Foundation for the Hague Process on Migrants and Refugees. Prior to joining the Migration Program at the Carnegie Endowment in 1994, Ms. Newland worked as an independent consultant for such clients as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From 1988-1992, Ms. Newland was on the faculty of the London School of Economics. During that time, she also co-founded (with Lord David Owen) and directed Humanitas, an educational trust dedicated to increasing awareness of international humanitarian issues. From 1982 to 1988, she worked at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. She began her career at Worldwatch Institute in 1974. Ms. Newland is the author or editor of six books, including the first State of the World’s Refugees for UNHCR in 1993, and No Refuge: The Challenge of Internal Displacement for the United Nations in 2003. She has also written eleven shorter monographs as well as numerous articles and book chapters. Ms. Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics. Read the Washington Post profile of Kathleen Newland, March 15, 2002. Doris Meissner, former Commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute. She contributes to MPI's work on US immigration policy, immigration policymaking in an era of globalization, immigration and national security, the politics of immigration, administering immigration systems and government agencies, and migration management cooperation with other countries. She is also the director of MPI’s Independent Task Force on Immigration and America’s Future. The task force is a bipartisan group of leaders, elected officials, and policy experts that is co-chaired by Spencer Abraham, former Republican senator from Michigan and Secretary of Energy during President Bush’s first term, and Lee Hamilton, former Democratic Congressman from Indiana, Vice Chair of the 9/11 Commission and President and Director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. The Task Force's final report provides detailed recommendations for fundamental reforms to the US immigration system that advance national interests and make the country more competitive globally in the 21st century. In 1993, President Clinton tapped her to serve as Commissioner of the INS, then a bureau in the US Department of Justice. She held the post through 2000. Her accomplishments included reforming the nation's asylum system; creating new strategies for managing US borders; improving naturalization and other services for immigrants; shaping new responses to migration and humanitarian emergencies; and strengthening cooperation and joint initiatives with Mexico, Canada, and other countries. She first joined the Department of Justice in 1973 as a White House Fellow, serving as a special assistant to the Attorney General. She then became assistant director of the Office of Policy and Planning; executive director of the Cabinet Committee on Illegal Aliens; and deputy associate attorney general. She served as acting commissioner of INS in 1981 and executive associate commissioner until 1986 when she left government to join the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as a senior associate. In 1988, Ms. Meissner created the Endowment's Immigration Policy Project, which evolved into the Migration Policy Institute in 2001. Ms. Meissner is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she earned BA and MA degrees. She began her professional career as assistant director of student financial aid at UW-Madison and then became the first executive director of the National Women’s Political Caucus (NWPC) in Washington, DC.
Margie McHugh is the Co-Director of the National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy at the Migration Policy Institute. The Center is a national hub for leaders in government, community affairs, business, and academia to obtain the knowledge and skills they need to respond to the challenges and opportunities that today’s high rates of immigration pose for local communities across the United States. The Center provides in-depth research, policy analysis, technical assistance, training, leadership development, and information resource services on a broad range of immigrant integration issues. Key areas that are the focus of the Center’s work this year include PreK-12 education; English literacy and workplace skills development; and the involvement of state and local governments in efforts to regulate the settlement of immigrants in their communities, including the enforcement of federal immigration laws. Prior to joining MPI, Ms. McHugh served for 15 years as the executive director of The New York Immigration Coalition, an umbrella organization for over 150 groups in New York that uses research, policy development, and community mobilization efforts to achieve landmark integration policy and program initiatives. During her time with the NYIC, Ms. McHugh oversaw research, writing, and publication of over a dozen reports dealing with issues such as the quality of education services provided to immigrant students in New York’s schools; the lack of availability of English classes for adult immigrants; the voting behavior of foreign-born citizens; and barriers faced by immigrants seeking to access health and mental health services. Prior to joining the NYIC, Ms. McHugh served as deputy director of New York City’s 1990 Census Project and as the executive assistant to NYC Mayor Koch’s chief of staff. She is the recipient of dozens of awards recognizing her successful efforts to bring diverse constituencies together and tackle tough problems, including the prestigious Leadership for a Changing World award. She has served as a member and officer on the boards of directors for both the National Immigration Forum and Working Today; on the editorial board of Migration WorldMagazine; and has held appointive positions in a variety of New York City and State commissions, most notably the Commission on the Future of the City University of New York and the New York Workers’ Rights Board. Ms. McHugh is a graduate of Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges and is a frequent commentator on immigration and immigrant integration issues in both local and national news media.
Susan Ginsburg, is Director of MPI’s Mobility and Security Program. She is a member of the Secure Borders and Open Doors Advisory Committee established by Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Homeland Security Secretary Michael Chertoff. Prior to joining MPI, she served as Senior Counsel and Team Leader on the staff of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States (9/11 Commission), where she was responsible for research and policy recommendations concerning the entry of the 9/11 hijackers, terrorist travel, and border controls. She followed her work on the 9/11 Commission with consulting and policy writing focused on terrorist mobility. Ms. Ginsburg previously worked as a consultant to nonprofit and academic institutions, providing strategic and operational planning relating to firearms policy. Prior to that, she worked at the Treasury Department as Senior Advisor and Firearms Policy Coordinator, Under Secretary for Enforcement. Before that, she was Chief of Staff to the Under Secretary for Enforcement (then overseeing the US Customs Service, the Secret Service, ATF, FLETC, FinCEN, and OFAC). Ms. Ginsburg is a member of the DC Bar Association, and as an attorney she specialized in civil litigation. She served as a law clerk in the United States Court of Appeals for Judge A. Leon Higginbotham of the Third Circuit. She also worked as a Special Assistant in the Bureau of International Narcotics Matters (renamed Bureau of Narcotics and Law Enforcement) at the State Department. In addition, she worked as the Washington Producer for Globo TV Network, Brazil’s largest television network. She has also been the Director for Safety and Health at the Professional Drivers Council, a public-interest and labor organization, in Washington, DC, and a Legislative Assistant to the Honorable James H. Scheuer of New York. Among her publications: Room for Progress: Reinventing Euro-atlantic Borders for a New Strategic Environment, MPI Transatlantic Task Force on Immigration and Integration, October 2007; Countering Terrorist Mobility: Shaping an Operational Strategy, MPI Report, 2006; and “The Magus of the North,” Isaiah Berlin, Wilson Quarterly, Spring 1995. She received her JD from the University of Pennsylvania Law School, and graduated Cum Laude from Bryn Mawr College with a degree in English Literature.
James W. Ziglar, former Commissioner of the US Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS), is a Senior Fellow at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) where his work focuses on US immigration policy, as well as border-control and security initiatives. Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Ziglar was President and CEO of Cross Match Technologies. From 1998-2001, he served as Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate, a position which made him the Senate’s business manager and chief law enforcement officer. He left that post in 2001 when President George W. Bush appointed him INS Commissioner, a position he held until December 2002 when the agency was dissolved and its missions transferred to the new Department of Homeland Security. Mr. Ziglar has more than 40 years experience in management, finance, law, and public policy, spending 17 years as an investment banker and eight years as a practicing lawyer. He began his law career as a clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun. He later was Distinguished Visiting Professor of Law at the George Washington University Law School, where he taught immigration and constitutional law, and was a Fellow at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government Institute of Politics. Among his many appointments to outside boards, he previously served as a director of the National Immigration Forum, Human Rights First, and MPI. He also was a member of the MPI-convened Independent Task Force on Immigration and America’s Future.
Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer, is director of MPI’s office at New York University School of Law. His work focuses on US immigration policy, the intersection of labor and immigration law, civil liberties, and immigrant integration. Prior to joining MPI, Mr. Chishti was Director of the Immigration Project of the Union of Needletrades, Industrial & Textile Employees (UNITE). His publications include: America's Challenge: Domestic Security, Civil Liberties, and National Unity After September 11 (co-authored); "Guest Workers in the House of Labor" in the New Labor Forum; "The Role of States in US Immigration Policy" in the NYU Annual Survey of American Law (2002); ); “Employer Sanctions Against Immigrant Workers” in WorkingUSA, and "Rights or Privileges," in the special issue on the Promise of Immigration in The Boston Review. Mr. Chishti was educated at St. Stephen's College, Delhi; the University of Delhi; Cornell Law School; and the Columbia School of International Affairs Additional interview languages: Hindi, Urdu
Gregory A. Maniatis oversees the European programs for the Migration Policy Institute in Washington and serves as the Executive Director of the Transatlantic Council on Migration. He is also advisor to Peter Sutherland, the UN Special Representative for Migration. Mr. Maniatis consults to the European Commission, Member State governments, the European Parliament, and international organizations on all aspects of immigration and integration policy. In 2007, he led MPI's advisory work for the EU Presidencies of Germany and Portugal; in previous years, he oversaw MPI’s work with the European Union Presidencies of Greece and the Netherlands. Prior to his positions at MPI and the UN, Mr. Maniatis was founder and publisher of Odyssey magazine, an English-language bimonthly that is the leading international magazine about Greece and Greeks around the world, with over 60,000 readers in 35 countries. He is also a writer and producer whose reportage and commentary have been featured in the International Herald Tribune, the Wall Street Journal, New York magazine, The Washington Monthly, PBS Television, and many other media outlets. Mr. Maniatis is a graduate of Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, and a recipient of a certificat from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. He is a Member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Susan Gzesh Susan Gzesh, a Nonresident Fellow, is a Senior Lecturer in the College and Center for International Studies at the University of Chicago, as well as director of the Human Rights Program. She teaches courses on human rights topics including the prohibition on torture and the rights of aliens and citizens. The Human Rights Program offers courses based in the humanities and social sciences, grants internships, and promotes scholarship, conferences, and events which link human rights “real world” activism and the academy. Susan was a Lecturer in the Law School from 1992 until 2003, and is associate faculty with the Center for Latin American Studies and the Friedrich Katz Center for Mexican Studies. From 1996 to 2001, she was the director of the Mexico-U.S. Advocates Network, coordinating the Regional Network of Civil Organizations for Migration (the NGO counterpart of the intergovernmental Regional Conference on Migration), as well as the Chicago-Michoacan Project and the Chicago-Mexico Leadership Initiative, all projects which promoted cross-border, transnational dialogues on migration policy and human rights. From 1997-1999, Susan was legal advisor to the Minister for Migration Affairs of the Embassy of Mexico. From 1977-1996, she practiced civil rights and immigration law representing immigrant workers and refugees, as well as Latino candidates in local elections. She speaks and writes on migration-related topics and regularly consults with philanthropic foundations. She received her JD from the University of Michigan and her AB from the University of Chicago. She was a Fulbright Lecturer at the Universidad de Guadalajara in 1990, served on the 1992 Clinton-Gore Presidential Transition Team, and currently is a member of Illinois Governor Rod Blagoyevich’s New Americans Initiative advisory board, charged with developing immigrant-friendly state policies. She speaks fluent Spanish and is active in various civic organizations. Rey Koslowski, a Nonresident Fellow, is Associate Professor of Political Science and Public Policy and at Rockefeller College of Public Affairs and Policy, University at Albany (SUNY). He also holds a joint appointment in the Informatics Department of UAlbany's College of Computing and Information and is Director of the Research Program on Border Control and Homeland Security. He has held fellowships at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars (2003-2004), Princeton University (1999-2000), and at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service (1996-97). He is a member of the International Migration Review editorial board and has served as the Chair of the Ethnicity, Nationalism and Migration section of the International Studies Association. Dr. Koslowski is the author of Real Challenges for Virtual Borders: The Implementation of US-VISIT (MPI, 2005) and Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000); editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, 2005) and co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (John Hopkins University Press, 2001). His most recent research has focused on comparative analysis of border security information technology in North America, the European Union, Australia, and New Zealand and has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation and the MacArthur Foundation. He received his BA from Wesleyan University and his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
David A. Martin is a Nonresident Fellow at MPI and the Warner-Booker Distinguished Professor of International Law at the University of Virginia. His research and teaching focus on immigration law, citizenship, refugees and asylum, resettlement, and international human rights, immigration services, enforcement of immigration law, and constitutional law. He is the co-author with T. Alexander Aleinikoff and Hiroshi Motomura of a
preeminent law school casebook, Immigration and Citizenship: Process and
Policy, now in its fifth edition. Mr. Martin has twice served as a consultant to the Administrative Conference of the United States, preparing studies and recommendations on federal migrant worker assistance programs and on reforms to political asylum adjudication procedures. In 1993, he served as an advisor to the Department of Justice, leading to major reforms of the U.S. political asylum adjudication system. He recently completed a comprehensive study of the U.S. overseas refugee admissions program for the Department of State, containing recommendations for reform of that system.
Nancy Morawetz, a Nonresident Fellow, is a Professor of Clinical Law at New York University School of Law and Director of NYU’s Immigrant Rights Clinic. She also serves as the chair of the Supreme Court Immigration Law Working Group. With her students, Prof. Morawetz engages in litigation and advocacy on issues related to the rights of noncitizens, with an emphasis on deportation, detention, and judicial review. Prof. Morawetz’s research focuses on deportation, detention, and judicial review of immigration decisions. Her writings include Citizenship and the Courts, ( University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2007); The Invisible Border: Restrictions on Short-Term Travel By Noncitizens, (Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, 2007); Back to Back to the Future? Lessons Learned from Litigation Over the 1996 Restrictions on Judicial Review( New York Law School Law Review, 2006-2007); and Understanding the Impact of the 1996 Deportation Laws and the Limited Scope of Proposed Reforms, (Harvard Law Review, 2000). Prof. Morawetz is a 1981 graduate of NYU School of Law and a former clerk to the Honorable Patricia M. Wald of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.
Marie Price, a Nonresident Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Geography and International Affairs at the George Washington University, where she has taught since 1990. Formerly the Director of Latin American Studies from 1999-2001, she is Chair of the Department of Geography. In 2006, Dr. Price was a visiting scholar at the Migration Policy Institute focusing on immigration to world cities and Latin American migration trends. In addition to her research on human migration, she has written about natural re source use, environmental conservation, and the geographical unevenness of globalization. Among her many publications, she is a co-editor of Migrants to the Metropolis: the Rise of Immigrant Gateway Cities(Syracuse University Press, 2008) and a co-author of Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Envrionment and Development(Prentice Hall, 2008). Her research on global urban immigrant destinations has appeared in the International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, Geo-Journal, and the Migration Information Source. A native of California, she earned her BA in Geography from the University of California, Berkeley. She earned her Ph.D. in Geography from Syracuse University in 1991.
Cristina Rodíguez, a Nonresident Fellow, is an Associate Professor of Law at the New York University School of Law. Her fields of research include language rights and language policy; immigration law and policy; constitutional law and theory; and citizenship theory. Her most recent works include The Significance of the Local in Immigration Regulation(Michigan Law Review, 2008), Guest Workers and Integration( University of Chicago Legal Forum, 2007), and E Pluribus Unum: How Bilingualism Strengthens American Democracy(Democracy, 2007). She teaches Constitutional Law, Immigration Law, Comparative Constitutional Adjudication, and International Refugee and Asylum Law, and co-directs the Public Law Colloquium. Before arriving at NYU in 2004, Professor Rodríguez served as a law clerk to US Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor, and to Judge David S. Tatel of the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit. Professor Rodríguez was born and raised in San Antonio, Texas. She earned a B.A. in History from Yale College in 1995, a Master of Letters in Modern History in 1998 from Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar, and a J.D. from Yale Law School in 2000, where she was an Articles Editor of the Yale Law Journal and was awarded the Benjamin Scharps Prize for the best paper by a third-year student.
Marc R. Rosenblum, a Nonresident Fellow, is Associate Professor of Political Science and the Robert Dupuy Professor of Pan-American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He has held fellowships at the Columbia University New American Assembly (2006-07), the Council on Foreign Relations (2005-2006), and the University of California’s Institute on Global Conflict and Cooperation (1998-2000); and he was the recipient of a University of New Orleans campus-wide Early Career Achievement Award in 2005. Dr. Rosenblum is the author of The Transnational Politics of U.S. Immigration Policy (University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies) and co-editor (with Daniel Tichenor) of The Oxford Handbook of International Migration (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). He has also published over twenty journal articles, book chapters, and policy briefs on immigration, immigration policy, and US-Latin American relations. He is currently completing a book on the congressional and interbranch politics of US immigration policy, including the debates in the 109th and 110th congresses in particular. He received his BA from Columbia University and his PhD from the University of California, San Diego.
Roberto Suro, a Nonresident Scholar, has nearly 35 years experience in the immigration field as a journalist, author, and researcher. His specialties are the Hispanic population, US immigration policy, and the dynamics of US popular opinion regarding immigration. Prior to joining the University of Southern California faculty in August 2007, Mr. Suro was Director of the Pew Hispanic Center, a research organization that he founded in 2001 with support from the Pew Charitable Trusts. At the Center, he supervised the production of more than 100 publications that offered nonpartisan statistical analysis and public opinion surveys chronicling the rapid growth of the Latino population and its implications for the nation. Mr. Suro’s journalistic career began in 1974 at the City News Bureau of Chicago where he worked as a police reporter. After tours at the Chicago Sun Times and the Chicago Tribune, he joined TIME Magazine where he worked as a correspondent in the Chicago, Washington, Beirut, and Rome bureaus. In 1985, he joined The New York Times, serving as bureau chief in Rome and Houston. After a year as an Alicia Patterson Fellow, Mr. Suro was hired at The Washington Post as a National staff writer, covering a variety of beats including immigration, the Justice Department, and the Pentagon. He later served as Deputy National Editor. Mr. Suro is author of Strangers Among Us: Latino Lives in a Changing America, (Vintage, 1999), Watching America’s Door: The Immigration Backlash and the New Policy Debate, (Twentieth Century Fund, 1996), Remembering the American Dream: Hispanic Immigration and National Policy, (Twentieth Century Fund, 1994) as well as more than two dozen book chapters, reports, and other publications related to Latinos and immigration. Michael Wishnie Michael Wishnie is a Clinical Professor of Law at Yale Law School. He was Professor of Clinical Law and co-director of the Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Program at New York University School of Law. He has served as a Skadden Fellow, representing New York City taxi drivers, garment, construction, restaurant and domestic workers in their efforts to vindicate basic labor and employment rights. Previously, Professor Wishnie worked as a staff attorney at the Brooklyn Neighborhood Office of The Legal Aid Society, and as a law clerk to Judge H. Lee Sarokin, Justice Harry A. Blackmun, and Justice Stephen G. Breyer. Before earning his JD from Yale Law School in 1993, Professor Wishnie spent two years teaching in the People’s Republic of China.
Jeanne Batalova is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, where
she focuses on the impacts of immigrants on social structure and labor markets;
integration of immigrant children and elderly immigrants; and the policies
and practices regulating immigration of highly skilled workers and foreign
students. She is also Manager of the MPI
Data Hub, a one-stop, web-based resource that provides instant
access to the latest facts, stats, and maps covering US and global data
on immigration and immigrant integration. She received her PhD in Sociology from University of California - Irvine,
MBA from Roosevelt University, and BA in Economics from Academy of Economic
Studies, Chisinau, Moldova. Policy
Analyst
202-266-1919
llaglagaron@migrationpolicy.org
Laureen
Laglagaron is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute and Director of MPI's Internship Program. Her
work focuses on initatives through the
Prior
to joining MPI, Ms. Laglagaron, an attorney, practiced immigration and family
law in
Ms.
Laglagaron previously worked at the Urban Institute where she co-authored “Social
Rights and Citizenship” (with MPI’s Michael Fix), a Report of
the Working Group on Social Rights and Citizenship for the Carnegie Endowment
for International Peace, Comparative Citizenship Project.
Ms.
Laglagaron received her JD from the
Additional
interview language: Tagalog and French.
Dovelyn R. Agunias is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, focusing on the migration-development nexus. Before joining MPI, Ms. Agunias was an Edward Weintal Scholar at the Institute for the Study of Diplomacy. She also worked as a student consultant at the World Bank and interned at the UN Development Programme’s Liaison Office in Washington, DC. Ms. Agunias holds a MS in Foreign Service, with honors, from Georgetown University, where she concentrated in International Development. She also holds a BA in Political Science from the University of the Philippines. Additionally, she has studied Icelandic Language and Culture at the University of Iceland. Additional interview language: Filipino
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