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KIMBERLY HAMILTON is Managing Editor of MPI's Migration Information Source, a one-stop, web-based migration resource for journalists, policymakers, opinion shapers, and researchers. She is also Director of Strategic Planning and Program Development at MPI and co-Director of Numbers in the Public Interest.

Dr. Hamilton has written on international migration as well as on the challenges of global HIV/AIDS. Her areas of interest are African migration trends, migration as a development tool, and comparative European policy. Her publications include, Migration and the New Europe (editor); "Europe, Africa, and International Migration: An Uncomfortable Triangle of Interests" in New Community, Reinventing Japan: Immigration's Role in Shaping Japan's Future; and Converging Paths to Restriction: French, Italian, and British Responses to Immigration (both with Demetrios Papademetriou).

Dr. Hamilton was previously a senior program officer at Alcoa Foundation, where she oversaw international grant-making. Prior to that, Dr. Hamilton was program officer at the Howard Gilman Foundation where she built and managed programs on humanitarian relief and human rights, global HIV/AIDS, and environmental conservation. From 1989 to 1994, she worked at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), first in the African studies program and later as Associate Director of International Economic and Social Policy, where she focused on environment and population issues.

SUZETTE BROOKS MASTERS is a Senior Fellow at the International Center for Migration, Ethnicity and Citizenship at New School University and a co-Director of Numbers in the Public Interest. Prior to joining New School University, Ms. Brooks Masters practiced law for many years.

She has authored numerous publications on immigration policy and the non-profit community working on behalf of immigrants in the United States. Her most recent publications include Networking the Networks: Improving Information Flows in the Immigration Field (New School University, 2001) and Have We Learned the Lessons of History: World War II Japanese Internment and Today's Secret Detentions (American Immigration Law Foundation, 2002).

She serves on the board of directors of the National Immigration Forum and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum.

AUDREY SINGER is a Visiting Fellow in The Brookings Institution Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy. Her work focuses on demography and urban change, immigration in metropolitan areas, emerging immigrant gateway cities, and immigration to the Washington metropolitan area.

Prior to joining Brookings, Dr. Singer was an Associate at the Carnegie Endowment of International Peace, Assistant Professor at Georgetown University, and a Demographic Analyst for the US Department of Labor.

Dr. Singer has written extensively on the issue of immigration. Her most recent publications are "The Rise of New Immigrant Gateways," and "At Home in the Nation's Capital: Immigrant Trends in Metropolitan Washington," both published by the Brookings Institution.

BRIAN K. RAY is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), where he focuses on immigrant settlement and integration and public policy in North American cities. Dr. Ray's research projects have included immigrant housing and employment conditions, the social networks of immigrant women, spatial segregation, and the construction of 'race' and racist practices.

Prior to joining MPI, Dr. Ray worked for the Canadian government as a Senior Analyst with the Metropolis Project and the Strategic Planning, Policy and Research Division in the Department of Citizenship and Immigration. He also held the post of Research Manager with the National Secretariat on Homelessness. From 1992 to 2000, Dr. Ray was a faculty member in the Urban Studies program at McGill University.

Dr. Ray is the author of numerous publications on immigration and social life in cities, including From Homeland to Home: Immigrants and Homeownership in Urban America (with Demetrios Papademetriou, forthcoming Fannie Mae Paper Series).

RANDY CAPPS is a Research Associate in the Population Studies Center at the Urban Institute. He is a demographer with substantial expertise in immigrant populations.

Dr. Capps has analyzed data on immigrants from a wide variety of sources, including the Census Current Population Survey, and the Urban Institute's National Survey of America's Families (NSAF) and Los Angeles New York City Immigrant Survey (LANYCIS). Additionally, he has analyzed and published national data - and data for 8 major immigrant receiving states (including New York) - on poverty, food insecurity and health insurance among immigrant families, drawing from the 1999 and 2002 NSAF. His work on such themes has been enhanced by field-based studies of the implementation of restoration of food stamp benefits to legal immigrants and of the application process for non-citizens and limited English speakers for food stamps, cash assistance, Medicaid and SCHIP.

His other areas of interest include geographic patterns of settlement for recent immigrants, immigrant workers in the U.S. labor market, and the well-being of children of immigrants.

STANLEY ROLARK is Chief of the Census Bureau's Customer Liaison Office and has served in that capacity since July 1997. The Customer Liaison Office serves as a bridge between the Census Bureau and its various customers including the State Data Centers, the Census Information Centers, the Governor's Liaisons, Tribal Governments, and National governmental and non-governmental organizations.

Mr. Rolark began his career at the Census Bureau in 1979 as a crew leader during the 1980 decennial census. That experience provided him with his first hands-on experience with a decennial census. He subsequently worked on the 1990 and 2000 Censuses in the areas of racial and ethnic statistics and data and information dissemination, respectively.

Mr. Rolark has worked in several areas of the Census Bureau and on a variety of programs and surveys, including the Housing Vacancy Survey, the Annual Housing Survey (now the American Housing Survey), and the Survey of Construction, which produces data on the new home market, including housing starts and completions. He has also worked in various capacities in the Census Bureau's Population Division focusing on race and ethnic data and residence rules. At one point, he served as Special Assistant to the Associate Director for Demographic Programs.