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Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Senior Fellow at the Lynch School and Director of the Immigrant Flourishing and Belonging Initiative. Her research examines how immigration shapes the development of children and youth, with an enduring focus on schools as a first point of contact between immigrant families and their new society.

Rebecca Lowenhaupt is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education. Her research examines how immigration affects school leadership and the role principals and district leaders play in supporting culturally diverse students.

Laura E. Captari is an assistant professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology. Her work explores the many facets of trauma healing.

Anne Homza is an associate professor of the practice with expertise in bilingual education, language, and literacy. She believes education can be just, humanizing, liberatory, and joyful.

Deoksoon Kim’s research focuses on understanding the needs of immigrant students to help them learn English and succeed in school. She also studies how instructional technology can support language and subject-matter learning.

Raquel Muñiz’s research examines oppressive power structures in education and strategies to disrupt them. She studies how racialization shows up at the intersection of law, policy, politics, and the culture of resistance.

Patrick Proctor is a professor and educational researcher focusing on bilingualism, bilingual education, language, and literacy. He works directly with teachers and administrators on bilingual education and language-based literacy instruction in multilingual schools and districts.

Martin Scanlan is a professor in the Department of Educational Leadership and Higher Education and a former teacher and administrator in urban schools. His research focuses on how schools can be organized to more effectively welcome all students.

Theresa S. Betancourt directs the Research Program on Children and Adversity at the School of Social Work. She co-designs and tests mental health programs for children and families facing adversity, including refugee displacement, in the U.S. and around the world.

David T. Buckley directs the Boisi Center and is a professor of political science. His research looks at how religion can drive both democratic backsliding and resilience, especially in the United States and Southeast Asia.

Kathleen Flinton chairs the Health and Mental Health field of practice at the School of Social Work. She has more than 20 years of experience in cross-cultural trauma treatment and specializes in work with refugees and asylum seekers.

Marilynn Johnson specializes in U.S. urban and immigration history, and her book The New Bostonians covers new immigrants in greater Boston since the 1960s. She is a founder and co-director of Global Boston, a digital history project on Boston-area immigration.

Daniel Kanstroom is Professor of Law and Michael and Helen Lee Distinguished Scholar at ×ÔοÊÓƵ Law, where he teaches immigration and refugee law. He founded the ×ÔοÊÓƵ Immigration and Asylum Clinic and wrote Deportation Nation and Aftermath.

Arissa H. Oh specializes in immigration, race, gender, and the family in U.S. history. She is currently writing a history of marriage migration.

Jaret Ornelas, SJ, is a Jesuit studying for an STL in Spirituality at the Clough School of Theology and Ministry. He previously worked at the Kino Border Initiative on the U.S.–Mexico border and now volunteers with an immigration court accompaniment program.

Mariela Páez is an associate professor at the Lynch School and director of the Early Childhood Program. Her research focuses on bilingualism, children’s language and literacy development, and early childhood education.

Andrea Patiño Contreras is a video journalist and filmmaker from Bogotá, Colombia, based in Boston. Her work covers migration and mobility, Latino communities in the U.S. and Latin America, and gender and sexual violence.

María Fernanda Piñeros-Leaño directs the MACONDO Research Lab. Her community-engaged research aims to improve mental health for migrant and immigrant families in the U.S. and Latin America.

Christopher Salas-Wright is the Barry Family Professor and Assistant Dean for Doctoral Education at the School of Social Work. He studies stress and resilience among displaced people, including in the VENE study of nearly 2,000 Venezuelans resettling in Colombia and Florida.

Usha Tummala-Narra is a professor in the Department of Counseling, Developmental, and Educational Psychology. Her research focuses on immigration, trauma, and culturally informed psychoanalytic psychotherapy.

Siyue Lena Wang studies how race and immigration shape the experiences of undocumented students. Her work also looks at how colleges and universities affect these students’ sense of belonging.