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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 Vice President and Director of Studies at MPI and 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 served as a Principal Research Associate at the Urban Institute, where he directed the Immigration Studies Program from 1998 through 2004. Throughout the course of his career at the Urban Institute, his research focused on immigrants and integration, regulatory reform, federalism, race, and the measurement of discrimination. Mr. Fix is a member of the National Academy of Sciences’ panel on the redesign of the US citizenship test. He served as a member of the Immigration Task Force of the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and on the Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children of the National Research Council. Mr. Fix also chaired the Working Group on Social Rights and Citizenship of the Migration Policy Institute’s Comparative Citizenship Project. Between 1986 and 1988, Mr. Fix was a consultant to the Rockefeller Foundation’s Equal Opportunity Program. His recent publications include A Profile of the Low Wage Immigrant Labor Force; Overlooked and Underserved: Immigrant Students in US Secondary Schools; and All Under One Roof: Mixed Status Families in an Age of Reform. 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.
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 (MPI) where
she directs MPI's work on US immigration policy. She also contributes to the
Institute’s work on immigration and national security, the politics of
immigration, administering immigration systems and government agencies, and
cooperation with other countries.
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
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. 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. Stephen K. Fischel Stephen K. Fischel, a Nonresident Fellow, is a partner at Fischel Mohar & Fanning Law Group. He is formerly Director of the Office of Legislation, Regulations and Advisory Assistance in the Visa Office of the US Department of State, joins us as a partner. He has over 30 years of experience in international immigration policy making, has played a critical role in key legislation governing global movement of people and is an international expert and lecturer on matters relating to US visa law. He is an active contributor to numerous immigration law and policy-related professional organizations. In his most recent position at the US Department of State, he was responsible for security and non-security advisory opinions, supervised analysis and implementation of visa laws impacting US consular affairs, worked closely with Congress in drafting immigration legislation, worked with the President's Domestic Policy Council on the President's Temporary Worker Program, and was the primary immigration law advisor to the Assistant Secretary of State for Consular Affairs. Other notable projects he oversaw include the Mexican Migration Talks, negotiation and implementation of NAFTA, and the negotiation of the Memorandum of Understanding between the US Department of State and the Department of Homeland Security regarding the transfer of certain visa authority prescribed by the Homeland Security Act. Mr. Fischel earned his Juris Doctor degree from the University of Santa Clara School of Law and a Master of Laws in Taxation from the Georgetown University Law Center. Susan Ginsburg 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. Marc R. Rosenblum 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. 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 initiatives of 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
Hiroyuki Tanaka is a Research Assistant at the Migration Policy Institute, where he focuses on US and European immigrant integration. In 2005, Mr. Tanaka interned as a Guggenheim Intern and Oscar S. Straus Fellow at the Vera Institute of Justice, where he researched language access programs around the world and immigrant-police relations in the United States. As an undergraduate fellow of the Policy Research Institute for the Region (PRIOR), he organized events that addressed key policy issues affecting disadvantaged youth in the New York-New Jersey-Pennsylvania region. His undergraduate research focused on immigrant integration in Great Britain and France.
Mr. Tanaka holds a BA with honors from Princeton University, where he majored in the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and earned certificates in European Politics and Society and French. He also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris as a member of a Junior Task Force on Immigration Policy in Europe.
Additional interview languages: Japanese, French Aaron Matteo Terrazas Mr. Terrazas holds a BS with honors from the Edmund Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, where he majored in International Affairs and earned a certificate in Latin American Studies. He was awarded the William Manger Latin American Studies Award for his senior thesis, “The Mexican Connection: Remittances, Diaspora Engagement, Economic Development, and the Role of the State.” He also studied at the Institut d’Etudes Politiques in Paris. Additional interview languages: Spanish, French Michelle
Mittelstadt Michelle Mittelstadt is communications director for MPI. A veteran journalist, she joined MPI after covering immigration policy, Congress and border-related issues since the early 1990s for The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News and The Houston Chronicle. Prior to coming to Washington, she was an editor with AP in Dallas and the managing editor of The Courier Herald in Dublin, Ga. She holds a bachelor's in journalism from the University of Georgia, and did her high school studies in Belgium. Additional interview language: French
Lisa Dixon is the Events Manager and Development Coordinator for the Migration Policy Institute. Prior to this position, Ms. Dixon has been the Director of Programs at Texas A & M's Jordan Institute for International Awareness, where she coordinated events promoting international awareness on the Texas A&M campus. Additionally, she taught high school in a border community of southern Texas through Teach for America, has volunteered for Habitat for Humanity, and has provided project support for the Red Cross in its Military, Refugee, and Social Services and Marketing departments. Ms. Dixon holds a Bachelor's Degree in Political Science Degree and a Business Minor.
Carolina Fritz is the Finance, Administration, and Project Associate for the Migration
Policy Institute. Prior to this position, Ms. Fritz worked as a Program Associate
for the Population Resource Center in Washington, DC, where she conducted research
and coordinated briefings on demographic matters for policymakers and the US
Congress. She also volunteered teaching adult ESL at the Hispanic Committee
of Virginia and served as a bilingual interpreter for Washington Radiology
Associates. Additional language: Spanish Kirin Kalia Kirin Kalia is Editor of the Migration Information Source, a one-stop, web-based migration resource for journalists, policymakers, opinion shapers and researchers. Before joining MPI, Ms. Kalia was the editor of Amsterdam-based Expatica HR, a website dedicated to helping international HR professionals manage their expatriate staff, and the editorial producer of highly regarded expatriate management conferences in the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany. Prior to her work for Expatica, she was the European editor-at-large for Silicon Alley Reporter (SAR), a New York-based technology industry magazine, and the editor of Wireless Reporter, an email newsletter. While based at SAR’s New York headquarters, she edited the Silicon Alley Daily email newsletter, launched its West Coast email newsletter, Digital Coast Weekly, and wrote several feature articles for the magazine. Ms. Kalia also interned in Newsweek magazine’s foreign news department and contributed to its annual “How to Get Into College” publication. She holds an MA in Migration and Ethnic Studies from the University of Amsterdam and a BA in Political Science from Bryn Mawr College. Additional interview language: Dutch
Violet Lee is Executive Assistant to the President of the Migration Policy
Institute, and serves as a central point of information and support, providing
general administrative guidance to all program staff.
April Siruno is the Communications Coordinator for MPI, where her work focuses on outreach and dissemination of the Institute’s research. Ms. Siruno previously worked as a Staffing Coordinator for Professional Healthcare Resources in Falls Church, Virginia. She has served as the DC Chapter's Membership and Communications Director of the National Asian Pacific American Women's Forum (NAPAWF). She also served as the Logistics Chair for the Economic Justice Gathering Conference at American University in March 2004. During the course of her undergraduate work, Ms. Siruno participated in the Lakbay Aaral Study of the Philippines, a program run by the Commission of Filipinos Overseas. Ms. Siruno obtained her BA in Sociology and Politics with a concentration in Asian American Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 2002.
Jennifer Snipe is the Administrative and Office Assistant for the Migration Policy Institute. In addition to her administrative duties, Ms. Snipe is working on her MS in Forensic Chemistry at The George Washington University. She obtained a BS with honors in Chemistry from Howard University in 2006.
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Michael Fix
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