Senior Vice President, Office of Research, Advocacy, and Legislation

Expertise

NCLR legislative and advocacy activities; immigration policy, civil rights, employment, poverty, farmworker issues, education, health

Education

Master’s degree, Latin American studies, University of California at Berkeley; bachelor’s degree, English and Latin American studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor

Background

Current Position: Public policy and legislative activities supervision; board chair, Center for Community Change board member, Open Society Institute

Previous Position(s): Former board of advisors member, Pew Hispanic Center; former board of directors member, National Immigration Forum; former board member, Washington Office of Latin America; former board member, Appleseed Foundation

Additional Information

Recipient of 2000 fellowship from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation

Selected Publications

“Immigration Reform and the Demise of Constitutional Community,” The Fractious Nation? Jonathan Reider, ed. (University of California Press, 2003)

“Citizenship and its Constraints,” DePaul Law Review, Vol. 52, No. 3 (Spring 2003)

Mobilizing the Latino Vote: Tapping the Power of the Hispanic Electorate, coauthored with Charles Kamasaki, Lisa Navarrete, Sonia M. Pérez, and Clarissa Martinez De Castro (July 2002)

“Latino Low-Wage Workers: A Look at Immigrant Workers,” Low Wage Workers in the New Economy, coauthored with Sonia M. Pérez (Urban Institute Press, 2001)

Unfinished Business: The Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (December 1990)