My work

Recent Publications:

• "Under Biden, Private Detention Isn’t Ending—It’s Changing Form," with Hannah Hafter, In These Times, March 31, 2022

• "Biden is letting tourists cross the U.S.-Mexico border. Why is he keeping out asylum seekers?," with Rachel Gore Freed, Salon, November 8, 2021

• "It's Time for Biden to Eliminate One of Trump's Worst Immigration Policies," The Hill, October 8, 2021

• "Climate Change Is Triggering a New Refugee Crisis—Inside the US," with Salote Soqo, Common Dreams, September 22, 2021

• "Biden’s plan for Central American kids is no substitute for asylum," with Rachel Schmidtke, The Hill, June 17, 2021

• "Biden’s policies are causing a ‘crisis’ at the border — just not the way conservatives think," Roll Call, March 30, 2021

• "Biden Promised to Help Asylum Seekers. He Should Start by Repealing Title 42," Truthout, January 4, 2021

Media hits:

Cited in The Intercept, The American Prospect, Common Dreams, and Daily Kos.

Examples:

• Quoted in Cora Currier and Danielle Mackey, "Trump Administration Ends Central American Refugee Program that Saved the Lives of Central American Children," The Intercept, November 10, 2017.

• Writing linked in David Bacon, "If San Pedro Sula Is Murder Capital of the World, Who Made It That Way?," The American Prospect, June 13, 2019.

Education:

MDiv, Harvard University

BA, The University of Chicago