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Carola Suarez-Orozco is a Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education (HGSE) and Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. Her work focuses on the developmental and educational experiences of immigrant-origin children, adolescents, and young adults, with a particular emphasis on resilience, identity formation, family dynamics, and institutional challenges in schools and society.
She holds a Ph.D. from the California School of Professional Psychology (1993). Her research employs mixed-methods approaches to examine how migration shapes academic engagement, civic participation, and psychological well-being. Key themes include unauthorized status impacts, microaggressions in classrooms, and pathways to educational equity.
Her influential books include *Children of Immigration* (2001), *Learning a New Land* (2008), and *Education: Our Global Compact in a Time of Crisis* (2020). She has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2024), APA awards, and induction into the National Academy of Education (2016).
As a leader in policy advocacy, she chairs the APA Task Force on Immigration and co-founded the *Our Moving Stories* podcast to amplify immigrant narratives. She emphasizes addressing the social-emotional needs of immigrant students beyond language acquisition to foster their holistic development.
