received an M.Ed. in International Education Policy from Harvard University in 2001, an M.A. in Social Sciences and Education from Stanford University in 2004 and a Ph.D. in Sociology from Stanford in June, 2011. Her primary research interests are in the fields of immigration, inequality, social policy, and race and ethnic relations. Her current research includes a study of immigrant integration in regions undergoing rapid demographic change, an analysis of the processes and mechanisms that influence the transition from a two-group (i.e., black and white) to a three group (i.e., black-white-Latino) racial system, and an investigation of economic competition and race and gender dynamics before and after the Great Recession. After completing the Program, she will assume a position as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.