Michele Wucker
Michele Wucker is executive director of the World Policy Institute in New York City and a research fellow at the Immigration Policy Center. [1] She also is a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow working on evolving notions of citizenship, belonging, and exclusion. "Her work involves the politics and economics of immigration and integration, transnational political processes, the politics of culture, Latin America and the Caribbean, and international finance and debt crisis," a biographical note states. [2]
Ms. Wucker is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right, published by PublicAffairs Press in May 2006 (paperback August 2007), and of Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999/2000)
She lectures frequently at leading universities and policy fora on the subjects of immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Latin American politics. She has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, AmericaEconomia, Civilization, Forbes, Harper's, IntellectualCapital.com, Newsday, New York Daily News, New York Times', Texas Observer, Tikkun, Valor Economico, Washington Post, Wall Street Journal, Working Woman, Worth, and World Policy Journal. Ms. Wucker appears frequently as a guest commentator on MSNBC and has been a source for major U.S. and international media including the New York Times, the Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, National Public Radio and Public Radio International.
Born in 1969 in Kansas City, Missouri, Ms. Wucker grew up in Texas and Wisconsin and now lives in New York City. She is a former staff reporter for The Milwaukee Sentinel, where she covered immigration, community government and police news, including the Jeffrey Dahmer case. She formerly was Latin America bureau chief at International Financing Review, where she edited a biweekly magazine on Latin American capital markets and managed a real-time screen service on Latin American debt. She also has written extensively about emerging-market politics and economies for International Financing Review's on-line capital markets analysis service, for Dow Jones newswires and the Wall Street Journal, and for the magazine AméricaEconomia. She has served as managing editor of Lagniappe Letter, a biweekly newsletter on Latin American business and politics.
Ms. Wucker holds a degree in French and policy studies from Rice University in Houston and a Master of International Affairs and Certificate in Latin American Studies at Columbia University's School of International Affairs.
