Appendix C

Biographical Sketches of Workshop Speakers and Planning Committee Members

Karabi Acharya (Sponsor and Speaker) directs the Global Ideas for U.S. Solutions portfolio at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. She is a public health anthropologist and worked for 18 years on international health and development issues in more than 10 countries across Africa and South Asia. Previously, Acharya was global director for Ashoka, a network of social entrepreneurs worldwide, where she led Ashoka’s efforts to document the system changes that Ashoka Fellows achieve. Prior to Ashoka, she worked for the Academy for Educational Development. She received her Sc.D. from Johns Hopkins School of Hygiene and Public Health and is a Donella Meadows Leadership Fellow.

Jeannie Annan (Speaker) is the chief scientist at the International Rescue Committee, where she spearheads the agency’s efforts to be evidence based and to build rigorous evidence about the impact, implementation, and costs of interventions in settings affected by conflict and crisis. Her research focuses on developing and testing interventions that prevent and mitigate the consequences of violence against women and children. Before becoming a researcher, she led education and psychosocial programming in Kosovo, Northern Uganda, and South Sudan. She is also a senior research associate at the Harris School of Public Policy at the University of Chicago, research affiliate at Innovations for Poverty Action, and coordinating group member for the Sexual Violence Research Initiative. She holds a Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Indiana University–Bloomington. She was a postdoctorate fellow at Yale and New York University and a visiting scientist at Harvard School of Public Health.

Irene Bloemraad (Speaker) is a political sociologist who studies how immigrants become incorporated into the political communities where they live, and the consequences of immigration for politics and understandings of membership. Her research focuses on who is a legitimate member of society, and how people exercise voice in diverse democracies. One strand of her research examines why immigrants become citizens more rapidly in Canada than in the United States, and whether citizenship helps immigrants’ political, civic, social, and economic incorporation. Another strand of research evaluates multiculturalism policies. Current projects examine the visibility and influence of immigrant organizations, as well as the resonance of human rights, citizenship claims, and appeals to national values for changing the hearts and minds of receiving communities when it comes to the needs of immigrant residents. In addition to being an author and teacher, she regularly shares her work with policy makers, immigration stakeholders, and the general public. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Harvard University.

Aimee Chin (Speaker) is a professor of economics at the University of Houston. Her research in the fields of labor and development economics focuses on the effects of human capital investments. She has examined the role of English-language skills in the economic and social assimilation of U.S. immigrants, the effects of educational programs for English language learners, and the effects of various educational and social policies in India. Her work uses experimental and quasi-experimental methods to estimate causal effects, and she teaches applied econometrics to M.A. and Ph.D. students. She is a research associate in the National Bureau of Economic Research’s Economics of Education Program and serves on the board of editors of the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. She received her Ph.D. in economics from MIT.

Christina Clark-Kazak (Speaker) is associate professor in the Graduate School of Public and International Affairs at the University of Ottawa and president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. She previously served as editor-in-chief of Refuge: Canada’s Journal on Refugees, president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, and director of York University’s Centre for Refugee Studies. Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, she held positions at York University’s Glendon Campus, Saint Paul University, and in the Canadian government. Her research focuses on age mainstreaming in migration law and policy, political participation of young refugees, and interdisciplinary methodology in contexts of forced migration. She holds a doctorate from Oxford University in development studies, where she was a Commonwealth Scholar; a master’s from Cambridge University in

international relations; and a B.A. from the University of British Columbia in international relations and French.

Katherine Donato (Speaker) holds the Donald G. Herzberg Chair in International Migration and is director of the Institute for the Study of International Migration in the School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University. Prior to joining the Georgetown faculty, she was on the faculty of Vanderbilt and Rice Universities. She has examined many research questions related to migration, including the economic consequences of U.S. immigration policy; health effects of Mexico-U.S. migration; immigrant parent involvement in schools in New York, Chicago, and Nashville; deportation and its effects for immigrants; the Great Recession and its consequences for Mexican workers; and gender and migration. Her recent book is Gender and International Migration: From Slavery to Present, and, together with Douglas Massey, she published a special issue of The ANNALS of The American Academy of Political and Social Science on undocumented migration. She is co-principal investigator on two projects with colleagues from Vanderbilt University. She was a visiting scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation during the 2017–2018 academic year. She received her Ph.D. in sociology from Stony Brook University.

Erika Frydenlund (Speaker) is a research assistant professor in the Virginia Modeling, Analysis and Simulation Center at Old Dominion University. Much of her work focuses on combining quantitative and qualitative data in simulations for understanding the emergence, dynamics, and consequences of human migration and displacement. She has served on the organizing committee for the Annual Simulation Symposium of the Spring Simulation Conference and as an executive member of the Emerging Scholars & Practitioners on Migration Issues Network. Recently, she led a team of international scholars to place first in the Safety & Security category of the Data for Refugees Challenge hosted by TurkTelekom to use mobile phone data for refugees and citizens to examine issues related to refugee hosting in Turkey. She has a B.S. in mathematics from the University of South Carolina at Columbia; an M.S. in statistics from Virginia Tech, and a Ph.D. in international studies from Old Dominion University. Additionally, she has graduate certificates in women’s studies and modeling and simulation.

Michaela Hynie (Speaker) is a professor in the Department of Psychology at York University. She is president of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, treasurer of the Canadian Psychological Association—International and Cross-Cultural Psychology Division, and a member of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration. Her research addresses the development and evaluation of interventions

that can strengthen social integration and inclusion in communities that have experienced social conflict or forced migration. She is particularly interested in the manner in which social networks and interpersonal relationships influence well-being in different cultural contexts, and how psychological aspects of social inclusion are shaped by the public and health sectors. Her approach promotes the collaboration of universities, community members, and nongovernmental and governmental agencies to build on the strengths of each sector and ensure sustainability. She received the Parents’ University Wide Teaching Award in 2003 and the Canadian Evaluation Society, Evaluation Excellence Award in 2012. She received her Ph.D. from McGill University.

Donald Kerwin (Speaker) has directed the Center for Migration Studies of New York since September 2011. He previously worked for the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc. (CLINIC), serving as its executive director for 15 years and its interim executive director for a short period thereafter. He coordinated the CLINIC’s political asylum project for Haitians. Previously, he served as vice president for programs at the Migration Policy Institute (MPI). He has also served as an associate fellow at the Woodstock Theological Center where he codirected Woodstock’s Theology of Migration Project; a nonresident senior fellow at MPI; a member of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration; a member of the Council on Foreign Relations’ Immigration Task Force; and on many boards and advisory groups. He founded and serves as the executive editor of the Journal on Migration and Human Security. He received his law degree from the University of Michigan.

Marwan Khawaja (Speaker) is chief of the Demographic and Social Statistics Section at the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia. He was professor and the founding director of the Center for Research on Population and Health at the American University of Beirut and served on the faculties of Syracuse University, Birzeit University, and Yale University. He was a cofounder and vice president of the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics, a research coordinator at Fafo in Norway, an elected council member of the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population, advisory board member of the Applied Health and Development Research Network, and founding member of the Arab Council of Social Sciences and the Middle East Health Policy Forum. His current research interests revolve around Arab demography, forced migration/refugees, conflict and public health, and domestic violence. He coedited Public Health in the Arab World for Cambridge University Press and special issues of many journals. He also served on the editorial board of Handbook of Asian Demography. He received his Ph.D. from Cornell University.

Ellen P. Kraly (Planning Committee Cochair and Speaker) is the William R. Kenan, Jr. professor of geography at Colgate University, and during 2019, she is in residence at Malmö University, where she holds the Willy Brandt Professorship in International Migration and Ethnic Relations. She also serves as chair of the IUSSP Scientific Panel on International Migration: Strengthening the Knowledge Base for Policy. She serves on the boards of directors of several organizations in upstate New York, including the Mohawk Valley Resource Center for Refugees. Previously, she was editor-in-chief of the International Migration Review and a member of the National Academy of Sciences Panel on Immigration Statistics. Her current research focuses on three themes: international, refugee, and forced migration processes and policy; conceptualization and measurement of migration and mobility; and ethical and human rights dimensions of the use of population data systems in policy and administration, with particular reference to Aboriginal affairs in Australia. In 2016, she was awarded an honorary doctorate from Curtin University. She has a B.A. in sociology from Bucknell University, an M.Sc. in demography from The Johns Hopkins University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Fordham University.

Susan Mcgrath (Planning Committee Member) is professor emerita in the School of Social Work at York University, where she also served as director of the Centre for Refugee Studies. She currently leads a big data initiative, studying indicators of forced displacement funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council Canada and a collaborative social work project with the School of Social Work at the University of Rwanda. She is a coapplicant on a project exploring the potentials of digital assistive technology and special education in Kenya and coprincipal investigator to study the health outcomes of Syrian refugees in three Canadian provinces. She is a past president of the International Association for the Study of Forced Migration and a founding member of the Canadian Association for Refugee and Forced Migration Studies. In 2014, she was invested into the Order of Canada in recognition of her outstanding achievement in research and policy on refugee rights and for fostering collaboration among scholars in her field. She has a Ph.D. in social work from the University of Toronto.

Raya Muttarak (Speaker) is a senior lecturer (associate professor) in geography and international development at the School of International Development, University of East Anglia, UK, and is affiliated with the World Population Program, Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), Austria. She is also a director of population, environment and sustainable development at the Wittgenstein Centre for Demography and Global Human Capital (IIASA, VID/ÖAW and WU). Her recent research projects include the role of education in climate actions and sustainable development;

differential impacts of climate variability on migration, health, and child welfare; and climate change perceptions and environmental behaviors. She is actively engaged in empirical studies on topics including the effects of the economic crisis on health, immigrants’ integration to social networks, and fertility. She holds an M.Sc. and a D.Phil. in sociology from the University of Oxford.

Pia M. Orrenius (Planning Committee Member) is vice president and senior economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas and adjunct professor at the Hankamer School of Business, Baylor University. She manages the regional/microeconomics group in the Dallas Fed Research Department. Her academic research focuses on the labor market impacts of immigration, unauthorized immigration, and U.S. immigration policy, and her work has been published in many journals. She serves as research fellow at The Tower Center for Political Studies and Mission Foods Texas-Mexico Center (both at Southern Methodist University), and at the Institute for the Study of Labor in Bonn, as well as adjunct scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. Previously, she was senior economist with the Council of Economic Advisers, where she worked on immigration, labor, and health issues. She has a B.A. in both economics and Spanish from the University of Illinois, Urbana–Champaign, and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Jon Pedersen (Speaker) is a researcher at Fafo, an independent Norwegian research institute. He was previously managing director and head of research of Fafo’s international activities. He has carried out large-scale surveys, principally in the Middle East, China, and Africa and specializes in areas of conflict, disaster, or reconstruction. Trained as an anthropologist, he mainly works within survey sampling and demography. He is a member of the Technical Advisory Group and Core Stillbirth Estimation Group for the UN Interagency Group for Child Mortality Estimation. He has received the Foreign Experts award from the State Council of the People’s Republic of China.

Elizabeth Plum (Speaker) is the vice president of policy at the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), where she oversees efforts to create public policies that expand basic rights for immigrants and ensure immigrants can build truly thriving and fulfilled lives in New York State. She has led several initiatives and campaigns to empower and integrate immigrant communities, including the “This is Our New York” campaign; NYIC’s Key to the City events; and the launch and facilitation of New York Counts 2020. She sits on the boards of directors of Central American Legal Assistance and Voices in Action in America. Prior to joining the NYIC, she worked

with Central and South American asylum seekers. She is a graduate of Bard College and the London School of Economics and Political Science.

Karen A. Pren (Speaker) serves as manager for the Mexican Migration Project (MMP) at Princeton University and is the author of numerous papers based on MMP data. She also serves as manager of the Latin American Migration Project. She is part of the advisory board for the project “Migración y vida familiar en Colombia” at the Universidad Militar Nueva Granada in Bogota, Colombia. In 2019, she was invited to be part of the advisory board for the project “The Role of Migration on the Life Course” based at University College London. She received her B.A. in geography at Middlebury College and holds an M.A. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

Holly E. Reed (Planning Committee Cochair) is associate professor of sociology at Queens College, City University of New York (CUNY), a faculty associate of the CUNY Institute for Demographic Research, and a faculty affiliate of the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health and Health Policy. Her research focuses on migration (including forced migration), demographic dynamics, education, and health in the United States and sub-Saharan Africa. She has led a large mixed-methods fieldwork collection effort in Ghana and conducted qualitative interviews among immigrants and refugees in the United States. Her current research projects focus on understanding the availability of resources for and trajectories and outcomes of undocumented students at CUNY, and the determinants and consequences of forced migration flows globally. She has published articles in many journals and previously served as a program officer for the Committee on Population of the National Academies. She holds a B.S. in foreign service and an M.A. in geography, both from Georgetown University, and a Ph.D. in sociology from Brown University.

Fernando Riosmena (Speaker) is an associate professor in the Population Program and the Geography Department at the University of Colorado Boulder, associate director of the University of Colorado Population Center, and faculty affiliate in the Latin America Studies Center and the Department of Sociology at the same institution. His research aims at explaining trends and heterogeneity in the chronic and mental health of Latin American immigrants in the United States. Recent, ongoing work seeks to understand the role of immigration and social policies in Hispanic health. His research aims at improving understanding of the theories, drivers, empirical measurement, and analytical strategies to analyze spatial mobility, with a focus on the social, economic, policy, and environmental factors likely influencing international migration between Mesoamerica and the

United States. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.A. in demography from the University of Pennsylvania.

Romesh Silva (Planning Committee Member and Speaker) is senior technical specialist, health and social inequalities at the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) headquarters in New York. He is the global technical lead for UNFPA’s work on population data and estimation in humanitarian contexts and also its program on the strengthening of civil registration and vital statistics (CRVS) systems. He has led numerous research projects on the demography of armed conflict and forced displacement through his work for the United Nations, nongovernmental organizations, and official truth commissions. He currently chairs the International Union for the Scientific Study of Population’s Scientific Panel on Population Perspectives and Demographic Methods to Strengthen CRVS systems. He earned his Ph.D. in demography from the University of California, Berkeley.

Sarah Staveteig (Planning Committee Member) is an international survey advisor at the U.S. Department of State. Her areas of expertise include political sociology, reproductive health, economic demography, and HIV. She has more than 15 years of experience in demographic and statistical analysis and mixed-methods research and has led analysis of forced migration in Africa and Asia. Before joining the State Department, she was a senior researcher in The Demographic and Health Surveys Program with Avenir Health, a research associate at the Urban Institute, and a Peccei Scholar at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis in Austria. She earned her Ph.D. in demography and sociology at the University of California, Berkeley.

Mark J. Vanlandingham (Speaker) is the Thomas C. Keller professor at Tulane University. He currently co-leads Tulane’s International Health and Development Program and directs its Center for Studies of Displaced Populations. His recent research focuses on displaced populations, refugees, the relationships between migration and health, and migration more generally, as covered in his recent book, Weathering Katrina. Awards and honors include Tulane’s School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine Teaching Award, the school’s award for Outstanding Commitment to Students’ Needs, the National Institutes of Health’s Matilda White Riley Distinguished Lecturer Award, and a Fulbright Fellowship to Vietnam. He is a regular reviewer of grant proposals submitted to the National Institutes of Health and has served on several editorial boards. He received his Ph.D. in sociology from Princeton University and his M.P.H. in international health and development from the University of Michigan. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship in demography at the University of Washington.

Michael Wessells (Speaker) is a professor in Columbia University’s Program on Forced Migration and Health. A long-time psychosocial and child protection practitioner, he is former cochair of the IASC Task Force on Mental Health and Psychosocial Support in Emergency Settings. Recently, he was cofocal point on mental health and psychosocial support for the revision of the Sphere humanitarian standards. He has conducted extensive research on the holistic impacts of war and political violence on children, and he is author of Child Soldiers: From Violence to Protection. Currently, he is lead researcher on interagency, multicountry action research on strengthening community-based child protection mechanisms by enabling effective linkages with national child protection systems. He regularly advises UN agencies, governments, and donors on issues of child protection and psychosocial support, including in communities and schools. Throughout Africa and Asia, he helps to develop community-based, culturally grounded programs that assist people affected by armed conflict and natural disasters. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Massachusetts.

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