Embracing Diversity:
Latino Immigration and the Transformation of American Society

REGISTERED PARTICIPANTS

Faculty Sponsors

Jennifer Hochschild is the Henry LaBarre Jayne Professor Government and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. She also holds lectureships in the Kennedy School of Government and the Graduate School of Education. Prof. Hochschild studies the intersection of American politics and political philosophy -- particularly in the areas of race, ethnicity, and immigration -- and educational policy. She also works on issues in public opinion and political culture. She is the co-author of The American Dream and the Public Schools (Oxford University Press, 2003); and author of Facing Up to the American Dream: Race, Class, and the Soul of the Nation (Princeton University Press, 1995); The New American Dilemma: Liberal Democracy and School Desegregation (Yale University Press, 1984); and What's Fair: American Beliefs about Distributive Justice (Harvard University Press, 1981). She is also a co-author or co-editor of other books and articles. Her current project is tentatively entitled Blurring Racial Boundaries: Skin Color Hierarchy and Multiracialism in American Politics. She is also the founding editor of "Perspectives on Politics", published by the American Political Science Association.

Mary C. Waters is the M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University. She specializes in the study of immigration, inter-group relations, the formation of racial and ethnic identity among the children of immigrants, and the challenges of measuring race and ethnicity. She received a B.A. in Philosophy from Johns Hopkins University in 1978, an M.A. in Demography (1981) and an M.A. (1983) and PhD in Sociology (1986) from the University of California at Berkeley. She is the author of two forthcoming books, Inheriting the City: The Second Generation Comes of Age (with Jennifer Holdaway, Philip Kasinitz, and John Mollenkopf), (Russell Sage Foundation Press); and The New Americans: A Guide to Immigration Since 1965 (with Reed Ueda and Helen Marrow), (Harvard University Press). She is also author of Black Identities: West Indian Immigrant Dreams and American Realities (Harvard University Press, 1999, paper ed. 2001). Her other books include Becoming New Yorkers: Ethnographies of the New Second Generation (co-edited with Phillip Kasinitz and John Mollenkopf) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2004), Social Inequalities in Comparative Perspective co-edited with Fiona Devine) (Blackwell Press, 2004), The New Race Question: How the Census Counts Multiracial Individuals (co-edited with Joel Perlmann) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2002, paper 2005), The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (co-edited with Peggy Levitt) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 2002), Ethnic Options: Choosing Identities in America (University of California Press, 1990) and From Many Strands: Ethnic and Racial Groups in Contemporary America (with Stanley Lieberson) (Russell Sage Foundation Press, 1988). She is also the author of over 40 articles and chapters on racial and ethnic identity and immigrant assimilation.

Keynote Speaker

Ivan Light is Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. He received a bachelor's degree in history from Harvard University (1963) and a doctor's degree in sociology from the University of California at Berkeley (1969). He is the author of numerous articles and of six books on immigration, entrepreneurs, and urban sociology. His earliest book is Ethnic Enterprise in America (University of California, 1972). The next book, Cities in World Perspective (Macmillan, 1983) is a comparative and historical treatment of urban societies around the world. His next two books were Immigrant Entrepreneurs: Koreans in Los Angeles (University of California, 1988; in collaboration with Edna Bonacich), and Immigration and Entrepreneurship (Transactions Publishers, 1993; in collaboration with Parminder Bhachu). There followed Race, Ethnicity and Entrepreneurship in Urban America (Aldine de Gruyter, 1995; in collaboration with Carolyn Rosenstein). Co-edited with Richard Isralowitz, is Immigrant Entrepreneurs and Immigrant Absorption in the United States and Israel (Avebury, 1997) brings together articles that compare Israel and the USA as immigrant-reception societies. His latest book is Ethnic Economies (Academic, 2000), which is co-authored with Steven Gold.

His most recent book, Deflecting Immigration: Networks, Markets, and Regulation in Los Angeles, published in June 2006 by the Rusell Sage Foundation, shows how Los Angeles reduced the sustained, high-volume influx of poor Latinos who settled there by deflecting a portion of the migration to other cities in the United States. For a brief summary, please see his recent op-ed in the Los Angeles Times.

Faculty Participants

Susan Eckstein is a specialist on urbanization, immigration, poverty, rights and injustices, and social movements in the context of Third World Countries. She has also written on agrarian reform, comparative development, and effects of revolution. Her main focus is on Latin America. She has written most extensively on Mexico, Cuba, and Bolivia. Currently she am working on immigration and its impact across borders, focusing on the Cuban experience in particular. She has also done some writing on working class volunteerism and suburban ethnicity in the U.S.

Professor Eckstein is the author of three books (in multiple editions) and editor of another three books in English. She has further published two books in Spanish and authored about seven dozen articles, winning several awards for her publications. She has held grants and fellowships from the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, the Radcliffe Institute, the American Council of Learned Societies, the Social Science Research Council, the Rockefeller Foundation, the Institute for World Order, a Mellon-MIT grant, the Ford Foundation, and the Tinker Foundation. She has served as President of the Latin American Studies Association and of the New England Council on Latin America; held numerous other positions in the two societies as well as in the American Sociological Association and the Eastern Sociological Society; and served on the editorial boards of about a dozen journals and press editorial boards. 

Richard B. Freeman, (Herbert S. Ascherman Professor of Economics, Harvard University)

Richard Freeman holds the Herbert Ascherman Chair in Economics at Harvard. He is currently serving as Faculty Co-Chair of the Harvard University Trade Union Program. He is also director of the Labor Studies Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research, Senior Research Fellow in Labour Markets at the London School of Economics' Centre for Economic Performance, and visiting professor at the London School of Economics.

Professor Freeman is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and of Sigma Xi. He has served on five panels of the National Academy of Sciences, including the Committee on National Needs for Biomedical and Behavioral Scientists. He has published over 300 articles dealing with a wide range of research interests including the job market for scientists and engineers; the growth and decline of unions; the effects of immigration and trade on inequality; restructuring European welfare states; Chinese labor markets; transitional economies; youth labor market problems; crime; self-organizing non-unions in the labor market; employee involvement programs; and income distribution and equity in the marketplace. He is currently directing the NBER / Sloan Science Engineering Workforce Project (with Daniel Goroff), and an LSE research program on the effects of the internet on labor markets, social behavior and the economy. In addition, he has written or edited over 25 books, several of which have been translated into French, Spanish, Chinese and Japanese. Some of his most recent books include: Seeking a Premiere League Economy (2004), Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the 21st Century (2004) and Can Labor Standards Improve Under Globalization? w/ Kimberly Ann Elliott (2003).

Peggy Levitt, Associate Professor of Sociology, Wellesley College

Peggy Levitt is associate Professor and Chair of the Sociology Department at Wellesley College and a Research Fellow at The Weatherhead Center for International Affairs and at The Hauser Center for Nonprofit Organizations at Harvard University . Her new book, God Needs No Passport: How Migrants are Transforming the American Religious Landscape is forthcoming from The New Press in 2007. She is co-director of the Transnational Studies Initiative at Harvard University , co-director of the SSRC working group on religion and globalization, and co-principal investigator on a National Science Foundation project on how global ideas about women's rights are translated in local contexts. Her book, The Transnational Villagers , was published by the University of California Press in 2001. The Changing Face of Home: The Transnational Lives of the Second Generation (edited with Mary Waters) was published by Russell Sage in 2002. She also edited (with Josh Dewind and Steven Vertovec) a special volume of International Migration Review on transnational migration in Fall 2003.

Deborah Schildkraut, Assistant Professor of Political Science, Tufts University

Debbie Schildkraut received her Ph.D. from Princeton University and her B.A. from Tufts University. Her courses include American Public Opinion, Race and Ethnicity in American Politics, Political Psychology, Political Science Research Methods, Mass Politics, Introduction to American Politics, and Campaigns and Elections. She is the author of Press ‘One' for English: Language Policy, Public Opinion, and American Identity (Princeton University Press, 2005). In it, she examines how several definitions of "what it means to be American" shape people's opinions about controversial language policies, such as declaring English the official language, printing election ballots in multiple languages, and bilingual education. She has published articles in Political Behavior, Political Psychology, Political Research Quarterly, and Perspectives on Politics . She previously served as an Assistant Professor of Politics at Oberlin College.

Professor Schildkraut's current research examines the political consequences of identity choices. She studies whether people in the United States who think of themselves primarily as American, as a member of a panethnic group (such as Latino or Asian), or as a member of a national origin group (such as Mexican or Korean) have different rates of political engagement (in terms of voting, trust in political institutions, and sense of obligation to the United States). This work pays particular attention to whether people feel that they or members of their group have been victims of discrimination in the United States and the role that such feelings play in conditioning the relationship between identity choices and political engagement.

Edna A. Viruell-Fuentes ( Yerby Postdoctoral Fellow and W.K. Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities, Harvard School of Public Health)

Edna Amparo Viruell-Fuentes is a Yerby Fellow and a W. K. Kellogg Scholar in Health Disparities at the Harvard School of Public Health.  Her work addresses the structural and social determinants of health with particular attention to the intersections of race, ethnicity, immigration, class, and gender, and their impacts on health disparities.  Through a transnational perspective, she investigates the processes of migration and incorporation of Mexican immigrants into the U.S. and the implications of these processes for their health.  Her work examines the assumptions behind the “Latino/a Health Paradox” ” as well as the role of race and ethnicity in shaping immigrants' social position and health outcomes.  In addition, her work addresses the health consequences of migration in immigrant-sending communities.

Dr. Viruell-Fuentes was a recipient of a W.K. Kellogg Doctoral Fellowship in Health Policy Research (1999-2003), a Fellowship from the Social Science Research Council International Migration Program (2001-2002), and a Fellowship from the Center for Research on Ethnicity, Culture and Health at the University of Michigan (2002-2003).  She has over 15 years of research and policy experience, holding positions such as Director of Research at the Center for Women's Policy Studies, Project Director in the Division of AIDS and Chronic Diseases at the National Coalition of Hispanic Health and Human Services Organizations (now the National Alliance for Hispanic Health), and Co-founder/Director of the Hispanic Task Force of Lee County, North Carolina—a community group serving and advocating for the rights and wellbeing of Latinos in the area.

She holds a Ph.D. from the School of Public Health at the University of Michigan and an M.P.H. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Conference Organizers

Onoso Imoagene, PhD Student, Sociology, Harvard University

Byron Pacheco Miller, PhD Student, Government & Social Policy, Harvard University

Byron is a third-year doctoral student in the Government & Social Policy Ph.D. program, based at the Kennedy School of Government.  He graduated with honors in government and history from Hamilton College in 2002.  Byron entered Harvard as an APSA Minority Fellow and his research has focused broadly on immigration, race and politics.  Recently he completed an ethnographic study of political involvement at a historically black church.  However, his primary research focuses broadly on the politics of immigration policy.  His current project examines the politics of how cities and states respond to immigration; policy responses which he finds are often paradoxical and contradictory.

Yasmine Ndassa-Colday, PhD Student, Biophysics, Harvard University

Originally from Cameroon and born in France, Yasmine is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in the Biophysics Program at Harvard University as a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) Predoctoral Fellow. Her thesis work aims at identifying tissue-specific cyclin E1 and cyclin D1 interactors by tandem mass spectrometry. She serves on the steering committee for the Harvard W.E.B. DuBois Graduate Society. She plans to apply her biomedical science training to influence national and international science policies on the application of state-of-the-art proteomics technologies to study diseases affecting underserved populations. Her goal is to extend her contribution beyond the bench to the communities who would benefit the most from biomedical science endeavors.

Van C. Tran, PhD Student, Sociology & Social Policy, Harvard University

Originally from Vietnam, Van managed a socially-responsible small business in the Upper East Side of New York City while working towards his undergraduate degree in Sociology at CUNY-Hunter College. His research focuses on immigrant incorporation, intergroup relations, social inequality, quantitative and qualitative methods. At Harvard, he coordinates the Migration and Immigrant Incorporation Workshop, an interdisciplinary platform for graduate students and faculty members in the Greater Boston area to circulate works-in-progress in order to elicit feedback and suggestions for improving scholarly work. He is also a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. To date, his academic work has been generously supported by the National Institute of Mental Health, the Paul & Daisy Soros Foundation for New Americans, the National Science Foundation and the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development.

Graduate Student Presenters

Cesar Abarca, PhD Candidate, Sociology & Social Welfare, Boston University

Cesar's past research focused on community-based participatory research, community organizing, program evaluations research, immigration and immigrants rights. His current research interests include gender issues, ethnic relations, ethnography, masculinity construction, and male violence. He is presently working at Center for Addictions Research and Services at Boston University as a Graduate Research Assistant.

Jody Agius, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of California - Irvine

Jody's broad research interests focus on questions of immigrant incorporation and the intersection of immigration and race/ethnicity. Jody's current research focuses on the Mexican-origin middle-class, an understudied and often ignored segment of the Mexican origin population, in Southern California. Her dissertation examines whether members of the Mexican-origin middle class retain ties to poorer coethnics and if they provide them with financial and social support, the role of ethnic associations among the Mexican-origin middle class, and how middle-class Mexican Americans self-identity ethnically and racially.

Marcus Alexander, PhD Candidate, Government, Harvard University

Marc is a PhD candidate in Government at Harvard University and doctoral fellow at the John F. Kennedy School of Government. His research on ethnic diversity focuses on topics of inequality, leadership and public goods contribution, specifically in the context of health and medicine. He is a member of the Institute for Quantitative Social Science, where he has worked on developing new statistical methods, laboratory and field experiments in political economy.

Christie D. Batson, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Ohio State University

Christie's research agenda reflects an ongoing interest in social demography, specifically immigration, marriage, and family research. Currently, I am examining the assimilation process of Mexican Americans by studying their first birth fertility patterns. I am also exploring the interracial, interethnic, and intergenerational differences in marriage among immigrants in America. A recent paper on the interracial and intraracial patterns of mate selection in America's diverse Black population was published in the August 2006 issue of Journal of Marriage and Family. Additional research includes interracial fertility and childbearing in a nonmarital context.

Catherine L. Belcher, PhD Candidate, Education, University of Pennsylvania

Catherine's primary areas of expertise are Latino educational history and policy, as well as culture in education. Her research interests center on the relationship between school structure (curriculum, culture and leadership) and minority student performance, and (general) Mexican American/Latino educational history and culture. She is particularly interested in the intersection of native and ethnic identity with American school structures along the border and on definitions of "success" in these and other Latino dominant schools. She also holds an extensive teaching background, including positions in public junior high and high schools, and has conducted policy research as a research assistant at the Consortium for Policy Research in Education.

Rodolfo A. H. Corchado, PhD Candidate, Cultural Anthropology, CUNY-The Graduate Center

Rodolfo's past and present research focuses on the following. (1) Globalization, neoliberalism in Latin America. B.A. Geography Thesis: “Shipwrecked spaces: production of fragmented national-states in Latin America”. (2) Political participation of Mexican immigrants in New York and, geographies of the representation. Master thesis in Social Anthropology: “No human being is illegal/Ningún ser humano es ilegal. Disputing the spaces for inclusion: the Asociación Tepeyac of New York”. CIESAS. (Prize Fray Bernardino de Sahagún to the best Master Thesis in Social Anthropology in Mexico, 2005. Instituto Nacional de Antropología e Historia). (3) Current research: Mexican undocumented labor market in New  York.

Adam Frick, MA Candidate, Latin American Studies, Tulane University

As a 'young' graduate student, Adam's research interests are still formative. His MA-ship in an interdisciplinary program have led him to familiarization in all fields of the social sciences and the humanities, while interest in post-Katrina immigrant behavior has been, obviously, guided more by current events than longstanding research. His interests will continue to focus on how Brazilian immigrants engage in questions of citizenship, as a unique social group among Latin American immigrants, within the context of New Orleans, a unique American city, and Katrina, a unique disaster.

Roberto G. Gonzales, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of California - Irvine

Roberto is a Ph.D. candidate in sociology at the University of California, Irvine and a Ford Foundation Fellow for 2006-2007. He has spent much of his professional life working with adolescents and young adults in immigrant communities. Roberto's dissertation takes place in Orange County and explores the effects of legal status on the adult children of unauthorized Mexican migrants. In particular, it examines the role of the economy and the state in shaping the realities and options available for these young men and women as they move into adulthood.

Monika Gosin, PhD Candidate, Ethnic Studies, University of California - San Diego

Monika's current research examines Afro Caribbean/Latino U.S. immigration experiences and immigrant and African American relations. Her previous research has investigated U.S. Latino cultural identity development, African Americans in mass media, race and gender in popular culture, and intergroup relations. She has also worked previously with researchers from Arizona State University's department of Social Work and The Pennsylvania State University department of Communication to co-write Keepin it REAL, a drug prevention curriculum for multi-ethnic youth, (funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse).

Corina Graif, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Harvard University

Corina's current research agenda addresses questions related to how ethnic and cultural diversity contributes to community social and economic development and impacts community risk factors, such as crime rates. She is also interested in research methods and studies the methodological aspects related to measuring diversity, ecological systems, and spatial inter-dependencies. She examines how within-group social cohesion and cross-group interactions and civic participation vary by race, ethnicity, immigrant status and occupation, and how personal and community social capital and social networks impact individuals' social and spatial mobility, and ultimately their well-being. Other interests include aspects related to the legal system and criminal justice within the US and across countries.

Daniel Hopkins, PhD Candidate, Government, Harvard University

Dan is a political scientist, and his areas of interest include American politics, political behavior, urban and local politics, and research methods. His research focuses on local contexts and developing effective methods for their study. At a time when ethnic and racial diversity is growing rapidly in the U.S., his dissertation takes up the question of how diversity impacts the provision of public goods. In other projects, he has explored the impact of suburban residence on political participation and the impact of local contexts on attitudes toward poverty.

Alan P. Marcus, PhD Candidate, Geography, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Alan's current research interests has focused on Brazilian transnational migration processes to Atlanta, GA, and Framingham, MA. His broader research interests also include identity, spatial behavior, race, color, ethnicity, cultural geography, geography of music, and the histories of geographic knowledge. Publications include one chapter of an edited book, "Growing Up Transnational" (publication forthcoming), one paper submitted for publication review, and published several magazine and op-ed newspaper pieces.

Leslie A. Martino, PhD Candidate, Sociology, CUNY-The Graduate Center

Leslie's research surrounds issues relating to immigration, education, language and technology, in the United States as well as in Latin America.   Prior to receiving a Masters degree in Anthropology and Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and starting her PhD in Sociology at the Graduate Center, she was a classroom teacher and teacher trainer for twelve years in schools in Los Angeles, New York and in Mexico.  Apart from her research on Mexican indigenous migration, she has worked on projects revolving remittances and communication and worked on a project related to Head Start at the National Center for Children and Families.  For the past two summers she has been a research fellow at the Welte Institute for Oaxacan Studies in Oaxaca, Mexico and currently is an instructor in the bilingual education/TESOL program at CUNY, The City College.

Ryan Mast, MA Candidate, Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Ryan's research interests were heavily influenced by his service as an agriculture extentionist in Guatemala with the Peace Corps. Since arriving at Tulane he has focused on development in Latin America and has more narrowly defined his research to rural development issues in tropical Brazil. Ryan is also active in immigrant rights issues for the recent Brazilian immigrant community in New Orleans.

India J. Ornelas, PhD Candidate, Health Behavior & Health Education, University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

India's current research interests include the health effects of migration and acculturation within Latino immigrant families. Her focus is on health behaviors related to cancer prevention including, diet, physical activity, tobacco use and screening. Her previous work and educational experiences have focused on addressing racial and ethnic health disparities. She received an AB in Health and Society at Brown University and an MPH at the University of Washington. After which she served in the Center for Disease Control and Prevention Public Health Prevention Service, where I worked on U.S.-Mexico border health issues.

Renee Reichl, PhD Candidate, Sociology, University of California - Los Angeles

Renee is a graduate student in the Department of Sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her current research compares immigrant labor market incorporation in four nations, the United States, Germany, Great Britain, and Canada. Her research interests include participation of immigrants in the labor market and in welfare state regimes, nontraditional employment, and comparative stratification.

Jessie Anne Rochford, PhD Candidate, Sociology, Fordham University

Jessie's research interests center on Latino populations in the United States, most recently on first-generation Latinos living on Long Island, New York. In addition to studying the connections between social networks and destination choice, she intends to expand her research to include other assimilation and labor issues for undocumented immigrants, such as Latino immigrant day laborer experiences at hiring and work sites.

Aurora Villegas-Muriel, MA Candidate, Latin American Studies, Tulane University

Aurora's primary field of research is Mexican undocumented immigrants in the United States. Although he is more familiar with the immigrants' experience in the South West, where he worked with the Mexican Consulate in Phoenix, the recent immigrant wave to the Gulf Coast has proved to be a very intricate learning experience. Currently, his research is on understanding why so many immigrants flocked to the Gulf Coast after last year's hurricane season, how they got here, and what they are doing.

Elsa von Scheven-Cordero, PhD Candidate, Urban Planning, University of California - Los Angeles

A Mexican citizen, Elsa used to work at the Ministry of Agriculture in Mexico City and did research on value chains of commodities. Since at UCLA, she has worked on dispersion of Mexicans and Mexican Return Migration, especially development effects arising from human and social capital and agglomeration economics.

Abigail Williamson, PhD Candidate, Public Policy, Harvard University

Abby's broad research agenda concerns the impact of policy interventions on social capital. Trust, networks of relationships, and participation are vital components of a community's ability to function; yet evaluation of policies tends to overlook or exclude these factors from consideration. In her dissertation, she examines how immigration to new destinations affects inter- and intra-group relations and consider how various local policies succeed and fail in maintaining local trust and participation while enabling immigrant incorporation. Other research and teaching interests include public management, political participation, and mixed methods research design.

Other Presenters

Shirin Hakimzadeh, Research Assistant, Pew Hispanic Center

Randy Higgins, Senior Program Assistant, National Research Council of the National Academies

Cynthia Verba, Director of GSAS Fellowships Office, Harvard University

Registered Participants

Sara E. Abiola, Harvard University
Ryan Allen, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Susan G. Anderson, Massachusetts Executive Office of Elder Affair
Paula Aymer, Tufts University
Eugenio Arriaga, Brandeis University
Maria Bardi, University of Florida
Alexandra Barker, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Christopher Barron, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Vikki Boliver, Oxford University & Harvard University
Leticia Braga, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Stefanie Brodmann, Harvard John F. Kennedy School of Government
Mae Bunagan, Harvard College
Kara Cebulko, Indiana University
Suzanna Chapman, Harvard University
James Chery, University of Massachusetts – Boston
Mary Beth Clack, Harvard University
Wally Clausen, Massachusetts Partners of the Americas
Paola Cueva, Harvard University
Jennifer Darrah-Okike, Brown University
Zoraima Diaz-Pined, Brandeis University
June Erlick, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Marcela Elisa García, Hispanic News Press | El Planeta
Bunmi Fatoye-Matory, Harvard University
Adam Fisher
Stella Gukasyan, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Dave Harker, Boston College
William Houghton
Cassandra Howard, University of Florida
Valeska Huber, Harvard University
Alejandro Jerez, Harvard College
Hernan Fernandez Lamadrid, MIT Sloan School of Management
Anne Le Brun, University of California at Berkeley
Jonathan Loch, Harvard College
Di Yin Lu, Harvard University
Esta Montano, Framingham Public Schools
Enrico A. Marcelli, Harvard School of Public Health
Maryann Masella
Elizabeth Mashie, Boston University
Liz Mineo, MetroWest Daily News
Maria D. Moreno, University of Massachusetts - Boston
Cesar E. Oyervides-Cisneros, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Claudia G. Pineda, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Marcela Pinilla, Brandeis University
Christopher Pina
Claire Provost, Harvard College
Pablo B Quintanilla, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Maria Regan, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University
Bobby Rivera, Harvard Divinity School
Lindsay Rosenfeld, Harvard School of Public Health
Gabriela Sanchez-Soto, Brown University
Bijal Shah, John F. Kennedy School of Government
Susanne Stemmler, Columbia University
Kristin Skrabut, Brown University
Yael Schacher, Harvard University
Laura Tach, Harvard University
Claudia Tamsky, Brazilian Immigrant Center
Karen Thomsen, Lincoln-Sudbury Regional High School
Reed Ueda, Tufts University
Daniela N. Villacrés, Brown University
Daniela Wiener, Harvard Graduate School of Education
Chris Williamson
Peggy Williamson
Katherine Miya Woolfalk, Harvard University
Chris Zepeda-Millan, Cornell University