Legalization

Jill Esbenshade, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor of Sociology at San Diego State University. She has been working on issues of immigration and labor for over 20 years and is the author of Monitoring Sweatshops: Workers, Consumers and the Global Economy as well as numerous articles on immigration policies and debates and labor policies and practices. Esbenshade published Displacement and Division: Regulating Immigration through Local Housing Ordinances with the Immigration Policy Center in September 2007.

• An Assessment of DNA Testing for Refugees (IPC Special Report, October 2010)
• Division and Dislocation: Regulating Immigration through Local Housing Ordinances (IPC Special Report, Summer 2007)

Guillermo Cantor, Senior Policy Analyst

Guillermo Cantor is the Senior Policy Analyst at the Immigration Policy Center, where he leads the Center’s research efforts. He also currently teaches courses on immigration and introductory sociology at Georgetown University. He has authored several publications on immigrant incorporation in the United States and Argentina. Prior to joining the American Immigration Council, Mr. Cantor served as an investigator on issues related to immigration at Argentina’s National Council for Scientific and Technical Research and as a professor at the National University of Rosario and the National University of Entre Ríos. Throughout his career, Mr. Cantor received multiple distinctions including a Fulbright Fellowship, the Urban Institute's Emerging Scholar Award, and the International Development Research Center's Research Award. Mr. Cantor holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park.

Wendy Feliz, Communications Director
202-507-7500 ext.7524
WSefsaf@immcouncil.org

Wendy Feliz is the Communications Director at the American Immigration Council. Previously, she worked as a consultant for New America Media, a multi-lingual, multi-ethnic news service and as a communications officer at the Open Society Institute’s DC policy office, where she helped shape their communications and media strategy. Previous to that she was the communications and grants manager at WAMU 88.5 FM, the NPR affiliate in Washington D.C. She is currently an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University where she teaches a course in advocacy communications. Wendy holds a B.A. in Liberal Arts from the New School University and an M.A. in Public Communication from American University.

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