I'm Senior Researcher at the Immigration Policy Center (IPC) of the American Immigration Council in Washington, DC. I've written or co-written about 20 reports for the IPC and contribute regularly to IPC's Immigration Impact blog. I have also written articles for the Georgetown Journal of Law and Public Policy, Stanford Law and Policy Review, and Immigration Law Today; as well as opinion pieces for the Philadelphia Inquirer, Sacramento Bee, Wall Street Journal, and Miami Herald.
I received my Ph.D. in Anthropology from the City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate School in 1997. My dissertation was based on field research conducted as a Fulbright U.S. Student Fellow in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1994 on the grassroots impact of the International Monetary Fund's structural-adjustment programs on poverty, public services, crime, political protest, electoral politics, and human rights. I received my B.A. in Sociology and Anthropology from the University of Maryland, College Park, in 1987.

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