Researcher

Laurel Lucia

Health Care Program Director @ UC Berkeley Labor Center

Laurel Lucia is director of the Health Care program at the UC Berkeley Labor Center, where she has worked since 2009. Her research focuses on health coverage and cost trends in California, and policies to improve access to and affordability of health care for California workers and their families. Recent publications have examined the impact of rising health care costs for workers in California, policies to improve access to health insurance for California immigrants, shifts in health coverage during COVID-19, and the health coverage and economic impacts in California had the Affordable...

Albert Manke

Research Fellow

Albert Manke is a historian of Latin American and Global History, specializing in transpacific and inter-American entanglements and the history of the Cold War with a focus on Cuba, Mexico, the Philippines, and California. He is particularly interested in migrant networks, exclusion and coping strategies, as well as in the agency-centered histories of resistance and social movements in the Americas. His first book, El Pueblo Cubano en Armas (2014, published in German) shows how different sectors of the Cuban society mobilized to defend the Cuban revolution of 1959 and significantly...

Ana Maria Mora

Assistant Researcher at the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health

Dr. Mora is a native of Costa Rica, she completed her Medical Doctor degree from the University of Costa Rica in 2005 and her PhD degree in Epidemiology at UC Berkeley School of Public Health in 2014. She is currently working as an Associate Professor at the Central American Institute for Studies on Toxic Substances (IRET) at the Universidad Nacional in Costa Rica, and an Assistant Researcher at the Center for Environmental Research and Children's Health (CERCH), School of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley. Her research focused primarily on the health effects of exposures...

Akasemi Newsome

Associate Director, Global, International and Area Studies Research Hub

Akasemi Newsome is the Associate Director of UC Berkeley’s Global, International and Area Studies research hub. She is also Associate Director at the Institute of European Studies. At the Institute, she is also Executive Director of the Center for German and European Studies, Executive Director of the Peder Sather Center for Advanced Study, Co-Director of the Jean Monnet Center of Excellence in European Union Studies and Founding Executive Director of the Center of Excellence for French and Francophone Studies.

Akasemi Newsome’s research interests include global race, ethnicity and...

Omar Davila Jr.

Assistant Professor of Child Studies at Santa Clara University

Omar Davila Jr. (Ph.D. | Education | UC Berkeley) is an Assistant Professor of Child Studies at Santa Clara University. His research examines the nexus of education policy, political discourse, and the social construction of merit. More specifically, he investigates how social inequality is reproduced and resisted; how political ideologies shape academic contexts; and how to reimagine education to serve a transformative end. His research appears in numerous academic journals, including Teachers College Record; Race Ethnicity and Education; Discourse: Studies in the Cultural Politics...

Liladhar R. Pendse

Librarian for East European, Central Asian, the Caribbean and Latin American Studies

As an immigrant librarian, I am interested in the issues surrounding immigration and adaptation to various social realities that exist in the contemporary North American society.

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Niveen Rizkalla

Postdoctoral Research Fellow

Her research interests focus on trauma – PTSD, complex PTSD, vicarious and secondary traumatization, post-traumatic growth, victims of torture and war; in addition to gender-based violence, e.g., sexual abuse and prostitution. She also is working on the mental health of Syrian refugees and the staff who assist them. Her most recent project delves into the physical and mental health of aid workers who assist traumatized populations (refugees, conflict, and natural disasters) in Asia, Africa, Europe, Latin America and the Middle East. She utilizes the Family Systems approach in providing a...

Stephen A. Rosenbaum

Frank C. Newman Lecturer, School of Law & Visiting Research Scholar, Othering & Belonging Institute

Steve’s scholarship interests are in the intersection of disability and immigration status, international human rights, special education, clinical legal education, lay advocacy and childcare availability amongst Mexican indigenous farmworker families. His social justice courses at the law school focus on the acquisition of professional skills, including community legal education, policy advocacy and culturally competent lawyering. Steve, who currently serves as pro bono counsel with La Raza Centro Legal, has litigated a number of state and federal cases on behalf of undocumented...

Carrie Rosenbaum

Lecturer, Visiting Scholar, and Working Group Director

Carrie Rosenbaum is an experienced immigration law attorney, teacher and scholar. Her scholarship focuses on the constitutionality of immigration laws including equality principles and rule of law, the role of settler colonialism in shaping contemporary expressions of immigration law, and racial bias in crimmigration enforcement.

Her current affiliations include the Center for the Study of Law and Society and the Berkeley Law Center on Comparative Equality & Anti-Discrimination Law. She directs the Immigrant Justice & Climate Refugees Working Group.

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Jasmijn Slootjes

Associate Director, MPI

Jasmijn Slootjes is an Associate Director with MPI Europe, primarily working on immigrant integration. Her research areas include migrant health, labor market integration, migrants’ access to services, integration policies, receiving-society responses to migration, and the use of innovative research methods to study migration.

Before joining MPI Europe, Dr. Slootjes was Executive Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative (BIMI) at the University of California, Berkeley. In this role, she worked on geospatial inequality in migrants’ access to health, legal, and...