Immigration Initiative at Harvard Fellows Program
2024 – 2025
The Immigration Initiative at Harvard (IIH) Fellows Program provides opportunities for learning, mentorship, professional development, and community building for interdisciplinary graduate students focused on immigrant origin children and youth. IIH develops resources for educators, researchers, and policy makers in the field. The Immigration Initiative at Harvard invited applications from HGSE Ed.M. students who were interested in working on issues related to the children of immigrants and their educational experiences and outcomes. Fellows receive a stipend.
The Fellowship, extending over an academic year, requires a willingness to participate and contribute to the Immigration Initiative seminar — a supportive learning community focused on dilemmas of research and practice serving immigrant origin children and youth, and which features monthly colloquium speakers. This includes participation in the IIH seminar and the opportunity to present and receive feedback on ongoing Fellows’ work.
Daniel “Dae” Hiếu Thuận Bui
Daniel “Dae” Bui is an M.Ed. student in the Education Policy and Analysis program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. His research interests lie in understanding how immigrants become incorporated within their host communities and the implications of immigration policies on immigrant children and families.
Maria Ximena Valenzuela
Maria Ximena is an Ed.M. candidate in the Learning Design, Innovation, and Technology Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE). As a first-generation college student and undocumented immigrant Latina woman, the gaps and needs she encountered in her educational trajectory have now become the focal points in the work she does with under resourced communities in both research and practice.
Shoghik Mikayelyan
Shoghik is a current graduate student in the Human Development and Education (HDE) program at Harvard University. She is the Founder and Executive Director of Nor Luyce Mentoring Center for Youth NGO, the first and only mentoring organization in Armenia dedicated to supporting adolescent girls from orphanages and socially vulnerable families (www.norluyce.com).
