Dr. Esther Yoona Cho is a former Policy and Communications Fellow at BIMI, former member of the Interdisciplinary Immigration Workshop, and completed her PhD dissertation in the Sociology Department. Dr. Cho is currently a Research Programs Director at Stanford University.
Dr. Esther Cho's research agenda focuses on how intersectional stigmatization affects the lived experiences and identities of those in immigrant and minority communities. Her work investigates the intersections of race and legality among undocumented immigrants of East Asian origin, asking: How do race and...
Erica Cho graduated from UC Berkeley with a degree in DataScience and Applied Mathematics and Modeling. As an Undergraduate research assistant at the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, Erica Cho has helped creating the BIMI newsletter in 2018-2019 and helped collecting data on immigrant-serving health clinics and legal aid organizations in the Bay Area as part of the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project.
Dr. Carrilo's research lies at the intersection of the fields of immigration, social welfare, and (sub)urban sociology. More specifically, Dr. Carrillo employ qualitative methods to examine how low-income, Latinx immigrants access the private and public safety net in urban and suburban spaces in the Bay Area, and how gender and legal status affect this process. Dr. Carillo is currently Project Director at UCSF and Data Research Expert at Code for America.
Sarah Oshel was a BIMI Collegium Fellow in 2018-2019 who contributed to data collection for the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project and helped incorporating research in undergraduate teaching as part of the Collegium Fellowship.
Tamara Jafar is a 2018-2019 BIMI Collegium Fellow who contributed to data collection for the Mapping Spatial Inequality Project and helped incorporating research in undergraduate teaching as part of the Collegium Fellowship.
Lydia de la Riva is a former undergraduate student at UC Santa Cruz and has contributed to collecting data about immigrant-serving youth organizations in Madera county as well as health clinics in Stanislaus county for the Mapping Spatial Inequality project.
Yasmine El-Hage completed an undergraduate degree in Public Health at UC Berkeley and is currently working in the Migration and Displacement department of UNICEF in Geneva, Switzerland. Yasmine El-Hage previously worked in the Migration and Health Unit in Norway on Unaccompanied Asylum Seeking Minors and as a case worker at the Resettlement and Health Department of the International Rescue Committee. Themes that particularly interest Yasmine are maternal, child, and reproductive health; cultural identity and diaspora; and medical ethnobotany. At BIMI, Yasmine worked as a research...
I am interested in the intersection of data analysis and the quality of life of immigrants, which includes access to basic services and their overall wellbeing. I believe that meaningful insights generated using computation and data analysis can help surface problems that spark action and necessary conversations.
