Jeff Gross is Director of the New Americans Integration Institute at the Massachusetts Immigrant and Refugee Advocacy (MIRA) Coalition. Dr. Gross joined MIRA in 2012 after a career that included many years as an instructor of college-level humanities and adult English as a Second Language (ESL) classes, more than a decade as a project manager and team leader in the voice recognition software industry, and as a public policy consultant on educational and economic development issues impacting Massachusetts’ immigrant communities.
At the New Americans Integration Institute, Dr. Gross’s work focuses on workforce development policy; improving access to early childhood education and care services for immigrant and dual-language-learner children; immigrant access to higher education, especially for those youth eligible for Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA); and the accreditation of foreign-trained professionals.
He received his BA in linguistics from Yale University in 1977, a PhD in medieval literature and historical linguistics from Harvard University in 1991, and a master of public policy from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University in 2012.