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    Cecilia Menjívar

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      Elizabeth Sweet

      Elizabeth Sweet (she/her) is MIRA’s Executive Director, taking the position in January 2022.

      Sweet brings to MIRA an 18-year record of advocating for immigrants and refugees. For the past six years, she served in senior leadership roles at HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), most recently as its Chief Operating Officer.

      A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Sweet set out to defend immigrants and asylum seekers in immigration detention during their deportation hearings. She later became the first full-time Director of the American Bar Association Immigration Justice Project in San Diego and then the Associate Director of the American Bar Commission on Immigration in Washington, DC.

      For the past six years, she has also served as the Chair of the Board of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.

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        Mary Waters

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          Hirokazu Yoshikawa

          Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU, and Co-Director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children Center at NYU. He previously served on the faculty and as the Academic Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He is a community and developmental psychologist who studies the effects of public policies and programs related to immigration, early childhood, and poverty reduction on children’s development. In the United States he has studied child development among mixed-status immigrant families from Latin America and Asia. He currently directs multi-method research evaluating early childhood programming for refugee, migrant and displaced households among Syrian refugees in the Middle East, the Rohingya in Bangladesh, and Venezuelan refugees in Colombia. He is an elected fellow of the National Academy of Education, the American Academy of Political and Social Sciences, and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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            Linda Juang

            Linda Juang

            Linda Juang is a Professor in the Department of Inclusive Education at the University of Potsdam, Germany. Her work focuses on how experiences of immigration relate to minoritized adolescents’ development and adjustment in school, family, and community contexts. Her research projects have been funded by the German Research Foundation, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, and the U.S. National Institute of Health. Her publications cover topics of ethnic-racial identity, discrimination, acculturation, family and school ethnic-racial socialization and well-being of adolescents and young adults. She is co-author with D. Matsumoto of Culture and Psychology (2022, Cengage Publishing). She is currently an associate editor for the journals Cultural Diversity and Ethnic Minority Psychology and Infant and Child Development. She organizes a biennial international scientific conference on Cultural Diversity, Migration, and Education held in Potsdam, Germany.