Expertise:
Migration and social integration of Latino communities; psychosocial health and well-being of immigrant children, youth, and families; race, ethnicity and discrimination; indigenous migrants; cultural and medical anthropology; applied research
Education:
Doctoral degree, anthropology, and master’s degree, medical anthropology, McGill University; master’s degree, public health, Columbia University; bachelor’s degree, sociology, Bryn Mawr College
Current Position:
Development and implementation of NCLR’s agenda for policy-oriented research across issue areas; oversight of research team and support for policy and research analysts; development of new research, particularly around Latino children, at-risk youth, race/ethnicity and civil rights, and demographic change
Previous Position(s):
Research Associate, Toronto General Hospital Women’s Health Program; Assistant Professor (status), University of Toronto (Anthropology); Research Assistant Professor, Vanderbilt University (Anthropology); Researcher, Transcultural Psychiatry Division, Montreal Children’s Hospital; Grants Officer, EngenderHealth (Latin America and Caribbean)
Selected Publications:
Mental Health Services for Latino Youth: Bridging Culture and Evidence (December 2016)
Toward A More Equitable Future: The Trends and Challenges Facing America’s Latino Children, coauthored with Mark Mather (September 2016)
Resilient Latino Youth: In Their Own Words (February 2015)
“Guatemalans in New England: Transnational Communities through Time and Space,” Practicing Anthropology, coauthored with Debra Rodman (2012)
Speaking Out: Latino Youth on Discrimination in the United States (October 2010)
America’s Future: Latino Child Well-Being in Numbers and Trends, coauthored with Mark Mather (April 2010)
“Local Narratives of Distress and Resilience: Lessons in Psychosocial Well-Being among the K’iche’ Maya in Postwar Guatemala,” Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Anthropology (2010)
“Refugees and Forced Migration,” in Introduction à l’anthropologie de l’aide humanitaire et du développement (2009)
In Search of Providence: Transnational Mayan Identities (2007)
“The Complexity of Determining Refugeehood: A Multidisciplinary Analysis of the Decision-Making Process of the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board,” Journal of Refugee Studies, coauthored with C. Rousseau, F. Crépeau, and F. Houle (2002)
“Cacophony of Voices: A K’iche’ Mayan Narrative of Remembrance and Forgetting,” Transcultural Psychiatry (2000)