Book Talk | Undocumented In The U.S. South

Book Talk and Discussion with Author, Dr. Sophia Rodriguez, Associate Professor, Educational Policy Studies and Sociology, New York UniversityCommentary from: Dr. HIrokazu Yoshikawa and Dr. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy, New York UniversityDiscussion Moderated by: Dr. Felicia Arriaga, Baruch College 5-7pmWine and Light Snacks will be served Sponsored by NYU’s Institute of Human Development and Social Change (IHDSC) and the CRACS Co-Lab.Dr. Sophia Rodriguez is an Associate Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies and Sociology of Education. Her research agenda addresses issues related to racial equity, urban education, leadership, and policy, and centralizes minoritized youth voices. Her current longitudinal projects investigate how community-school partnerships, teachers, leaders, and critical school-based personnel promote equity and advocate for immigrant youth. She is committed to using research evidence in policy and practice to support immigrant communities. Her scholarly work has appeared in education, sociology, and broader social science journals, and in media outlets such as the Washington Post, Brookings Institution, the Conversation, and Chalkbeat as well as covered in Education Week. She founded and directs the ImmigrantEdNext Research Lab, a public-facing research hub that involves mentoring doctoral students in multiple projects about how districts, schools, community-based organizations can create spaces of belonging for immigrant youth. She has received several awards for work from professional organizations, including Early Career Awards from the American Educational Research Association, and Council for Anthropology & Education for change-oriented ethnographic research. She is currently a W.T. Grant Foundation Scholar and leading several research projects about research evidence use to support policy and litigation efforts that support vulnerable communities. Dr. Hirokazu Yoshikawa is the Courtney Sale Ross Professor of Globalization and Education at NYU Steinhardt and a University Professor at NYU. He is a core faculty member of the the Psychology of Social Intervention and Human Development Research and Policy programs at Steinhardt. He is also a faculty affiliate of the Institute of Human Development and Social Change and Metropolitan Center for Equity and the Transformation of Schools. From 2014 to 2024 he was a founding co-director (with J. Lawrence Aber) of the Global TIES for Children center at NYU. He is a community and developmental psychologist who conducts research-policy and research-practice partnerships related to immigration, early childhood, youth development, and poverty reduction across the lifespan. He conducts research in the United States and in Latin America, South Asia and the Middle East. His books include Cradle to Kindergarten: A New Plan to Combat Inequality (with Ajay Chaudry, Taryn Morrissey, and Christina Weiland, 2021, 2nd edition, Russell Sage) and Immigrants Raising Citizens: Undocumented Parents and Their Young Children (2011, Russell Sage). He serves on the Board of Trustees of the William T. Grant Foundation; the Global Education Evidence Advisory Panel (GEEAP); and the LEVANTE advisory board of the Jacobs Foundation. He served on the National Board on Education Sciences during the Obama and Biden administrations. 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. He has received the Award for Distinguished Contributions to Policy and Practice from the Society for Research in Child Development and an honorary doctorate from Utrecht University. In the fall of 2024 he was the Margaret Olivia Sage senior scholar in residence at the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. L'Heureux Lewis-McCoy is an associate professor in the Sociology of Education program in the Department of Applied Statistics, Social Science and Humanities at New York University's Steinhardt School of Culture, Education and Human Development. He holds a Ph.D. in Public Policy and Sociology from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, MI (2008) and a Bachelor's degree in Sociology from Morehouse College in Atlanta, GA (2000). His central line of research concentrates on educational inequality particularly focused on the intersecting roles of race, class, and place. His first book, Inequality in the Promised Land: Race, Resources, and Suburban Schooling examined the experiences of low income and racial minority families' attempts at accessing school-related resources in an affluent suburb. More Info below.