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Wednesday, April 28th 2004
8:30 am - 10:00 am

SPEAKERS' BIOGRAPHIES

REY KOSLOWSKI is a Fellow of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington, DC. He is on leave from his position as Associate Professor of Political Science at Rutgers University - Newark, where he also serves as Political Science Graduate Program Director and Director of the Center for Global Change and Governance Research Program on Border Control and Homeland Security.

Professor Koslowski has held previous fellowships at the Center of International Studies at Princeton University and the Center for German and European Studies at Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He is the author of Migrants and Citizens: Demographic Change in the European States System (Cornell University Press, 2000), co-editor (with David Kyle) of Global Human Smuggling: Comparative Perspectives (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001) and editor of International Migration and the Globalization of Domestic Politics (Routledge, forthcoming).

JOAN FRIEDLAND is an Immigration Policy Attorney with the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) where she focuses on post-9/11 documentation, database, and information-sharing policy issues affecting low-income immigrants. Before joining NILC in 2002, she had a long career as a lawyer for nonprofit organizations and in private practice in New Mexico and Florida, and has litigated many civil rights and immigration cases. Ms. Friedland holds a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. ARI SCHWARTZ is an Associate Director of the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT) where he focuses on defending and building privacy protections in the digital age. He also works on expanding access to government information via the Internet and online advocacy and civil society. A leading expert on the issue of privacy on government websites, Mr. Schwartz was named to the 2003's Federal 100 - the top executives from government, industry and academia who had the greatest impact on the government information systems community over the past year -- and he has testified before Congress and Executive Branch Agencies on these issues.

Mr. Schwartz chairs the World Wide Web Consortium's Platform for Privacy Practices (P3P) Policy and Outreach Working Group - the leading standards setting body for Web technologies - and Co-Chairs the Congressional Internet Caucus Advisory Committee Task Force on E-Government. Moreover, he is on the steering committee of the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference and is a past Chair of the Conference. Prior to CDT, Mr. Schwartz worked at OMB Watch researching and analyzing the nonprofit sector's engagement in technology, government performance, access to government information, and government information technology policy.

MODERATOR

DEBORAH MEYERS is a Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI) where her recent work has focused on migration and borders in North American, including temporary worker programs, border security, DHS, and U.S. immigration reform. She has authored nearly twenty publications and frequently gives presentations and media interviews. Ms. Meyers also directs MPI's internship program. Previously, Ms. Meyers worked in the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, where she managed a comparative project on self-governance at US and other international borders. She also served as a Policy Analyst at the U.S. Commission on Immigration Reform, as a Project Associate for the U.S.-Mexico Binational Study on Migration, and has done consulting work for the Inter-American Dialogue, RAND, and the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Ms. Meyers earned her MA from the Elliott School of International Affairs at The George Washington University and her BA from Brandeis University.