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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 (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.
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 TOP
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.
Marc R. Rosenblum is a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI, where he works on the Labor Markets Initiative, US immigration policy, and Mexico-US migration issues. Dr. Rosenblum is the author of The Transnational Politics of US Immigration Policy (University of California, San Diego Center for Comparative Immigration Studies, 2004) and has also published over 20 academic journal articles, book chapters, and policy briefs on immigration, immigration policy, and US-Latin American relations. His book Defining Migration: America's Great Debate and the History of US Immigration Policy analyzes US immigration policy since the Civil War, with a focus on the post-IRCA and post-9/11 periods (forthcoming, 2009); and he is the coeditor (with Daniel Tichenor) of The Oxford Handbook of International Migration (Oxford University Press, forthcoming). Dr. Rosenblum earned his B.A. from Columbia University and his Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego, and is currently an Associate Professor of Political Science and the Robert Dupuy Professor of Pan-American Studies at the University of New Orleans. He was a Council on Foreign Relations Fellow detailed to the office of US Sen. Edward Kennedy during the 2006 Senate immigration debate, and was involved in crafting the legislation. Additional language: Spanish
Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Capps was a researcher in the Immigration Studies Program at the Urban Institute from 1993 through 1996, and from 2000 through 2008. His recently published national studies include Paying the Price: The Impact of Immigration Raids on America's Children, A Comparative Analysis of Immigrant Integration in Low-Income Urban Neighborhoods, Trends in the Low-Wage Immigrant Labor Force 2000-2005, and Immigration and Child and Family Policy. He has also published widely on immigrant integration at the state and local level, for instance a profile of the immigrant workforce and economic impact of immigrants in Arkansas; a study of immigrant workers and their integration in Louisville, Kentucky; a description of the unauthorized labor force in California and Los Angeles; a study of tax payments by immigrants in the Washington, DC metropolitan area; an assessment of immigrants in the Connecticut labor force; and most recently, an analysis of the immigrant workforce and recommendations for immigrant integration in Maryland.. Dr. Capps received his Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Texas in 1999, and received his M.P. Aff., also from the University of Texas, in 1992.
Jeanne Batalova is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute. Her areas of expertise include impacts of immigrants on society 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 MPI’s 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 earned her PhD in Sociology, with a specialization in demography, from University of California-Irvine, MBA from Roosevelt University, and BA in Economics from Academy of Economic Studies, Chisinau, Moldova. Additional interview language: Russian  Laureen D. LaglagaronPolicy 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.
Additional language: Spanish.
Miryam Hazán is a Policy Analyst at MPI, where she researches issues related to US-Mexican-Central American migration policies, including development, education, workforce training, security, and immigrant integration. Dr. Hazán has worked as a visiting scholar at Rutgers University and as a research assistant for the Public Policy Clinic at the University of Texas at Austin, where she researched the political incorporation of Mexican immigrants in the United States. She received her PhD in government from the University of Texas at Austin in 2006. She earned an MA in Latin American studies from Georgetown University with a specialization in international relations, and has a BA in journalism and mass communications from the National Autonomous University in Mexico City. Dr. Hazán's dissertation work is now a book manuscript entitled Becoming Mexican and American: Mexican Immigrant Politics for a New Century, under review by Cambridge University Press. Before coming to the United States, she worked as a journalist in Mexico City, including six years at El Financiero. Additional language: Spanish.
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 Natalia Banulescu-Bogdan is an Associate Policy Analyst at MPI, where she works on the International Program and the Transatlantic Council on Migration. Prior to joining MPI, she was a Program Administrator at the Brookings Institution's Center for Executive Education, where she developed public policy seminars for senior government officials and coordinated the center's website and communications strategy. Ms. Banulescu-Bogdan obtained her Masters with Distinction in Nationalism Studies from Central European University. Her master's thesis focused on the political mobilization of Roma in Romania. She received her BA with Distinction from the University of Pennsylvania in International Relations, where she was a University Scholar. Ms. Banulescu-Bogdan also studied at the Université Lumière in Lyon and at the Eötvös Collegium in Hungary as a David L. Boren Scholar. Additional languages: French and Romanian.
Before coming to MPI, Ms. Lin worked as an economist for the Division of International Labor Comparisons at the Bureau of Labor Statistics. She has a master's degree in Public Policy from Georgetown University, and earned her undergraduate degree from the National Taiwan University. She has also studied at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Additional languages: Mandarin Chinese and Japanese.
Madeleine Sumption is an Associate Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, where she works on the Labor Markets initiative and the International Program. She holds a Masters degree with honors from the University of Chicago's Harris School of Public Policy Studies. There, she focused on labor economics and wrote a thesis on the development of social networks among Eastern European immigrants to the United Kingdom and its labor market implications. She also holds a First Class Degree in Russian and French from New College, Oxford. Before coming to the United States, Ms. Sumption worked on education policy at the New Local Government Network in London. Additional languages: French, Russian
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 and has completed post-graduate coursework in statistics and econometrics. Additional languages: Spanish, French
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 languages: Japanese, French Michelle
Mittelstadt Michelle Mittelstadt is Director of Communications and is responsible for developing and implementing MPI’s strategic communications, managing the Web site and publications, and coordinating the Institute’s media outreach and events. A veteran journalist, she joined MPI after covering immigration policy, Congress, and border-related issues since the early 1990s in the Washington bureaus of The Associated Press, The Dallas Morning News, and The Houston Chronicle. She has written hundreds of articles examining US immigration policy, border and interior enforcement, and the post-9/11 legislative and executive branch changes that have altered the immigration landscape. She also covered the Departments of Justice and Homeland Security. Prior to coming to Washington, Ms. Mittelstadt was an editor with The Associated Press 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 languages: French and German
Gale Gearhart is Director of Finance and Administration at MPI and is responsible for finance and accounting, human resources, facilities, and office operations.
Prior to joining MPI, Ms. Gearhart was the Vice President of Finance and Operations at The Women's Center in Vienna, Va., a nonprofit counseling and resource center for women and families in the Washington area. She was responsible for finance and accounting, medical billing, human resources, office operations, facilities, and information and referral services.
Ms. Gearhart holds an MBA from The George Washington University in Washington, DC, and a BS in secondary education from the University of Florida in Gainesville, Fla. She also earned a certificate in association management from the American Society of Association Executives.
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 and Marketing Coordinator for MPI, where her work focuses on outreach and dissemination of the Institute's research and publications. She also oversees bookstore and ad sales. 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. In May 2008, she received the Distinguished Alumni Award for the Leadership Development Program though the Johns Hopkins University Carey School of Business, where she is pursuing her MBA. Ms. Siruno obtained her BA in Sociology and Politics with a concentration in Asian American Studies from Mount Holyoke College in 2002.
Kristen Hayden is the Office Manager at the Migration Policy Institute, where she provides administrative support to the Communications and Finance departments. Before joining MPI, she worked in Communications at the Eurasia Foundation, a nonprofit grant-making organization that works in the former Soviet Union, and for a US Senate campaign. Ms. Hayden obtained her BA in Political Science and a minor in Russian at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. 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. Ms. Gzesh 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-US 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, Ms. Gzesh 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 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 is a member of the Illinois governor's New Americans Initiative advisory board, charged with developing immigrant-friendly state policies.
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.
Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History at American University in Washington, DC and holds a faculty appointment at the United States University of the Health Sciences in Bethesda, Maryland. He is a specialist in US immigration and ethnic history, and in the history of American medicine and public health. He chairs the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Foundation's History Advisory Committee and is a past president of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society. Dr. Kraut has been an historical consultant on documentaries related to immigration history and the history of medicine broadcast on PBS, BBC, and the History Channel. Most recently he was an adviser on the PBS documentary Forgotten Ellis Island, the Extraordinary Story of America's Immigrant Hospital (2009). His books include Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace"; From Arrival to Incorporation, Migrants to the U.S. in a Global Era (co-editor); and Goldberger's War: The Life and Work of a Public Health Crusader.
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. Nonresident Scholar Rainer Münz, a Nonresident Scholar, is Head of Research & Development at Erste Group Bank AG and Senior Fellow at the Hamburg Institute of International Economics. Dr. Münz was appointed in October 2008 by European Union leaders to a 12-member group, known as the "Group of the Wise", tasked with reflecting on how best to deal with Europe's future challenges and reporting back to the EU leadership in June 2010. Dr. Münz is an expert on population change, international migration, and demographic aging and their economic impacts and implications for social security. From 1992 to 2003, he was head of the Department of Demography at Humboldt University, Berlin. Prior to that, he served as Director of the Institute of Demography at the Austrian Academy of Science. He earned his PhD from Vienna University in 1978. Dr. Münz has worked as consultant for the European Commission, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development,, and the World Bank. He served as an advisor to the Greek (2003), Dutch (2004), and Slovene (2008) EU presidencies. In 2000-2001, he was a member of the German commission on immigration reform (the Süssmuth commission). He is the author or coauthor of Overcrowded World? Global Population and International Migration (Haus Publishing, 2008); Costs and Benefits of Immigration to Europe (OECD, 2006); Labour Migrants Unbound: EU Enlargement, Transitional Measures and Labour Market Effects (Institute for Futures Studies, 2005); and Challenges and Opportunities of International Migration for the EU, Its Member States, Neighboring Countries and Regions (World Bank, 2004).
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.
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. Joanne van Selm
Joanne van Selm, a Nonresident Fellow, is an independent researcher on migration and refugee issues, based in Skopje, Macedonia. Dr. van Selm is Co-Editor of the Journal of Refugee Studies (Oxford University Press) and affiliated as a Senior Researcher at the Institute for Migration and Ethnic Studies at the University of Amsterdam.
Dr. van Selm has extensive experience in policy and academic research on European Union migration, asylum, and refugee issues. Formerly a Senior Policy Analyst at MPI, Dr. van Selm worked closely with the Greek and Dutch presidencies of the European Union during 2003 and 2004. She also conducted studies for the European Commission, including on the feasibility of resettlement and on the transfer of protection status (with the Danish Institute for Human Rights and Institute for the Study of International Migration).
Dr. van Selm, who is the author of several books and articles, has previously held posts as Lecturer in Political Science at the University of Amsterdam and the Vrij Universiteit Amsterdam, and holds a PhD in International Relations from the University of Kent at Canterbury, United Kingdom. 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. Heide Spruck Wrigley Heide Spruck Wrigley is a researcher and teacher educator with Literacywork International, an independent social science research firm focused on education and training for immigrant youth and adults. She has studied and written about various aspects of adult English as a Second Language (ESL), including workforce literacy, family literacy, and vocational English for adults with limited English proficiency. Dr. Wrigley has been the subject matter specialist in a number of national research efforts, including the federally funded What Works for Adult ESL Students study and the National Adult ESL Literacy Demonstration Project. She is a senior advisor for the national project, Transitioning Adult English Language Learners. Dr. Wrigley holds a PhD in Education and a Master's Degree in Applied Linguistics.
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