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Michelle Mittelstadt
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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 current work include Pre-K—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 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 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 NYIC, Ms. McHugh served as Deputy Director of New York City’s 1990 Census Project and as Executive Assistant to New York Mayor Ed Koch’s chief of staff. She is the recipient of dozens of awards recognizing her 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 World Magazine; 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.
Suzette Brooks Masters, Immigration Program Specialist at the J.M. Kaplan Fund, opens the discussion on adult literacy/ESL instruction, workforce preparation, and community financial services fields, where federal policy and funding appropriately support immigrant integration goals. Margie McHugh, Co-Director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, leads a discussion with the 2010 E Pluribus Unum Prizes awardees.
Assistant U.S. Secretary for Postsecondary Education Eduardo Martín Ochoa and Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce Director Anthony P. Carnevale join Michael Fix and Margie McHugh, Co-Directors of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Immigration Policy, to discuss findings from the MPI report, Still an Hourglass? Immigrant Workers in Middle-Skilled Jobs. The report, which examines immigrant employment in the US workforce overall and four key sectors (IT, health care, construction, and hospitality), finds that the fastest growth in immigrant employment since 2000 has occurred in middle-skilled jobs.
Read the report at http://migrationpolicy.org/pubs/sectoralbrief-Sept2010.pdf
The Migration Policy Institute’s 2011 E Pluribus Unum Prizes honoring exceptional immigrant integration initiatives opened with two panel discussions on immigrant integration and the shared responsibility at the federal, state, and local levels. This panel discussion is moderated by Margie McHugh, Co-Director of MPI’s National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy, and included senior representatives from the White House and several federal agencies. Panelists are Felicia Escobar, Senior Policy Advisor for Immigration at the White House Domestic Policy Council; Brenda Dann-Messier, Assistant Secretary for Vocational and Adult Education, US Department of Education; Eskinder Negash, Director of the Office of Refugee Resettlement, US Department of Health and Human Services; and Sean Greene, Associate Administrator for Investment and Special Advisor for Innovation, US Small Business Administration.
MPI released "Executive Action on Immigration: Six Ways to Make the System Work Better" which outlines recommendations for executive actions that the administration can implement to improve the immigration system. http://events.powerstream.net/002/00592/20110314MPI/#powershow to watch the whole event.
Katie Ross of JCCI interviews Margie McHugh at NAPC11 on immigration and local impacts.
Margie McHugh, Director of the Migration Policy Institute's Immigrant Integration Center, and Frank Sharry, Director of America's Voice, talk about immigration issues and local impacts at the 2011 National Association of Planning Councils conference in Alexandria, Va.
The Migration Policy Institute examines key indicators of English language learner (ELL) students' performance on standardized tests, and offers national and state-by-state data.
In this video, the Migration Policy Institute discusses the geographic distribution of students who are English language learners (ELLs), their growth in enrollment, and academic performance.
The Migration Policy Institute is an independent, nonpartisan, nonprofit think tank in Washington, DC dedicated to analysis of the movement of people worldwide. MPI provides analysis, development, and evaluation of
migration and refugee policies at the local, national, and international levels.
