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Michele Wucker

 
 

Senior Fellow and Executive Director

World Policy Institute

wucker@worldpolicy.org

Michele Wucker is Senior Fellow and Executive Director of the World Policy Institute. She is co-founder of WPI's Immigrant Voting Project and Citizenship and Security Program, and is a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center. Ms. Wucker lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean politics. She is an advisor to Batey Relief Alliance and the Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project.

Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, Ms. Wucker has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, America Economia, The Guardian, Newsday, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Valor Economico, Tikkun, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal. Ms. Wucker appears frequently on MSNBC as a commentator on immigration, and has been a source for major U.S. and international media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and Public Radio International. She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs 2006/paperback 2007; a Washington Post Book World "Best Nonfiction of 2006" Selection) and Why The Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999).

Ms. Wucker is the recipient of a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. She is a graduate of Rice University and of Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs.

 
 

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