Dec. 1st at 9:00pm ET/6:00pm PT
Ana Maria Archila
Executive Director Make the Road New York
Ana Maria Archila, Executive Director of make the Road New York, immigrated from her native Colombia to the United States at the age of 17, and in recent years has emerged as an important immigrant advocate for civil rights, health care access and education reform in New York City. She has also initiated collaborations to increase political participation through voter mobilization, population education and community organizing.
www.maketheroad.org
Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D
Chair, Sociology Department Queens College
Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He chairs the Queens College Sociology Department.
Since 1993, Dr. Beveridge has been a consultant to the New York Times, which has published numerous news reports and maps based upon his analysis of the Census data. He writes the demographic topic column for the Gotham Gazette, an on-line publication of the Citizens Union. He is working on three major projects involving urban and neighborhood change, one tracking long term change in United States urban areas and two that look at neighborhood impact on individuals, including drug users and drug dealers, high school and elementary school students, and economic and other standing. He is also collaborating on a study of test score patterns in the Houston Independent School District. He collaborates with a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota and other institutions on the National Historical Geographic Information System project, which is producing data that makes it possible to examine long term trends in major cities and urban areas in the United States.
He and his team have developed an interactive application and Web Based set of maps entitled Social Explorer that allow the user to compare and contrast demography based upon an area that he or she selects. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the New York Times.
He has examined the social roots of American banking and credit practices; public attitudes towards science and technology; factors leading to union success in winning representation elections; social trends revealed by housing surveys; and economic development in Africa. He is the co-author of African Businessmen and Development in Zambia, published by Princeton University Press, and numerous articles, papers and reports.
He has taught in the Sociology Department of Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in sociology from Yale University and his B.A with honors in economics from Yale College. His research work has received grant and fellowship support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Putnam Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other agencies.
He is an expert in using GIS techniques to integrate demographic materials. Aside from his extensive published work he has used such techniques in numerous consulting engagements with such clients as: Time Warner Cable of New York, the Newspaper Association of America, Davis Polk, and Sullivan and Cromwell as well as with such non-profit organizations as, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maryland, the Open Housing Center of New York City, Westchester Legal Services, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Capital Defenders Office, among others.
www.socialexplorer.com
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Researcher Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Carlos Vargas-Ramos is Centro’s public policy researcher and author of three of its policy papers: Settlement Patterns and Residential Segregation of Puerto Ricans in the United States”, “The State of Housing for Hispanics in the United States” and “Housing Emergency and Overcrowding: Latinos in New York City”.
A political scientist by training, Vargas-Ramos is also author of “El género y la participación política en Puerto Rico” (in Caribbean Studies, 2005), “The political participation of Puerto Ricans in New York City” (in Centro Journal 2003) and co-author of “Paradigms of minority and immigrant political participation in the United States” (in Political decision-making, deliberation and participation. JAI Press, 2002). Most recently, his article “Black, Trigueño White… Shifting racial identification among Puerto Ricans” appeared in Du Bois Review (2005).
He received his B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Rutgers University (1987). He also holds an M.A. in Hispanic Civilization from New York University (1989), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2000). Carlos’s doctoral dissertation, “The Effects of Return Migration on Political Participation in Puerto Rico,” focused on the impact the migration experience in the United States had on Puerto Ricans, and how this experience affected the migrants’ pattern of political participation both in the United States and upon return to the island.
Prior to joining the Centro’s staff, Carlos was a legislative aide in the New York City Council. He has also worked as a research assistant at the Barnard/Columbia Center for Urban Policy and Research as well as an enumerator and manager for the U.S. Bureau of the Census. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Caribbean Studies Association and the Puerto Rican Studies Association.
www.centropr.org
José E. Cruz
Member Hispanic Complete Count Committee of the Capital Region
José E. Cruz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is also director of the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet), a research consortium based at UAlbany, and of the Latino Political Barometer (LPB), an annual regional survey of political values, attitudes, and behavior of Latinos. His publications include Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998) and Adiós Borinquen Querida: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History and Contributions, with Edna Acosta-Belén et al. (Albany, NY: CELAC, 2000). Cruz is also the editor of Latino Immigration Policy: Context, Issues, Alternatives (Albany, NY: NYLARNet, 2008). His paper “Pluralism and Ethnicity in New York City Politics: The Case of Puerto Ricans” received the Best Faculty Paper Award from the New York State Political Science Association in 2009.
Dr. Cruz is a member of the Hispanic Complete Count Committee of the Capital Region (HCCC). The Committee is working to ensure the Latino community in this region is adequately counted during the 2010 Census; they seek to accomplish this through media outreach and community partnerships with organizations such as the NAACP and The NY Immigration Coalition. HCCC has partnered with Voto Latino, which is the leading non-partisan Latino youth civic engagement organization, to reach the Latino community and maximize Census participation in this hard-to-count community. Voto Latino will make available Census-themed iTune cards and celebrity PSA’s, which will air in local TV stations.
www.HispanicCCC.weebly.com
Executive Director Make the Road New York
Ana Maria Archila, Executive Director of make the Road New York, immigrated from her native Colombia to the United States at the age of 17, and in recent years has emerged as an important immigrant advocate for civil rights, health care access and education reform in New York City. She has also initiated collaborations to increase political participation through voter mobilization, population education and community organizing.
www.maketheroad.org
Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D
Chair, Sociology Department Queens College
Andrew A. Beveridge, Ph.D., is Professor of Sociology at Queens College and the Graduate School and University Center of the City University of New York. He chairs the Queens College Sociology Department.
Since 1993, Dr. Beveridge has been a consultant to the New York Times, which has published numerous news reports and maps based upon his analysis of the Census data. He writes the demographic topic column for the Gotham Gazette, an on-line publication of the Citizens Union. He is working on three major projects involving urban and neighborhood change, one tracking long term change in United States urban areas and two that look at neighborhood impact on individuals, including drug users and drug dealers, high school and elementary school students, and economic and other standing. He is also collaborating on a study of test score patterns in the Houston Independent School District. He collaborates with a team of researchers at the University of Minnesota and other institutions on the National Historical Geographic Information System project, which is producing data that makes it possible to examine long term trends in major cities and urban areas in the United States.
He and his team have developed an interactive application and Web Based set of maps entitled Social Explorer that allow the user to compare and contrast demography based upon an area that he or she selects. This work was funded by the National Science Foundation and the New York Times.
He has examined the social roots of American banking and credit practices; public attitudes towards science and technology; factors leading to union success in winning representation elections; social trends revealed by housing surveys; and economic development in Africa. He is the co-author of African Businessmen and Development in Zambia, published by Princeton University Press, and numerous articles, papers and reports.
He has taught in the Sociology Department of Columbia University. He received his Ph.D. and M.Phil. in sociology from Yale University and his B.A with honors in economics from Yale College. His research work has received grant and fellowship support from the American Council of Learned Societies, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Philosophical Society, the Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Putnam Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and other agencies.
He is an expert in using GIS techniques to integrate demographic materials. Aside from his extensive published work he has used such techniques in numerous consulting engagements with such clients as: Time Warner Cable of New York, the Newspaper Association of America, Davis Polk, and Sullivan and Cromwell as well as with such non-profit organizations as, the Connecticut Civil Liberties Union, the ACLU of Maryland, the Open Housing Center of New York City, Westchester Legal Services, the Center for Constitutional Rights, the Capital Defenders Office, among others.
www.socialexplorer.com
Carlos Vargas-Ramos
Researcher Center for Puerto Rican Studies
Carlos Vargas-Ramos is Centro’s public policy researcher and author of three of its policy papers: Settlement Patterns and Residential Segregation of Puerto Ricans in the United States”, “The State of Housing for Hispanics in the United States” and “Housing Emergency and Overcrowding: Latinos in New York City”.
A political scientist by training, Vargas-Ramos is also author of “El género y la participación política en Puerto Rico” (in Caribbean Studies, 2005), “The political participation of Puerto Ricans in New York City” (in Centro Journal 2003) and co-author of “Paradigms of minority and immigrant political participation in the United States” (in Political decision-making, deliberation and participation. JAI Press, 2002). Most recently, his article “Black, Trigueño White… Shifting racial identification among Puerto Ricans” appeared in Du Bois Review (2005).
He received his B.A. in Political Science and Economics from Rutgers University (1987). He also holds an M.A. in Hispanic Civilization from New York University (1989), and a Ph.D. in Political Science from Columbia University (2000). Carlos’s doctoral dissertation, “The Effects of Return Migration on Political Participation in Puerto Rico,” focused on the impact the migration experience in the United States had on Puerto Ricans, and how this experience affected the migrants’ pattern of political participation both in the United States and upon return to the island.
Prior to joining the Centro’s staff, Carlos was a legislative aide in the New York City Council. He has also worked as a research assistant at the Barnard/Columbia Center for Urban Policy and Research as well as an enumerator and manager for the U.S. Bureau of the Census. He is a member of the American Political Science Association, the Caribbean Studies Association and the Puerto Rican Studies Association.
www.centropr.org
José E. Cruz
Member Hispanic Complete Count Committee of the Capital Region
José E. Cruz is an Associate Professor of Political Science and U.S. Latino Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York. He is also director of the New York Latino Research and Resources Network (NYLARNet), a research consortium based at UAlbany, and of the Latino Political Barometer (LPB), an annual regional survey of political values, attitudes, and behavior of Latinos. His publications include Identity and Power: Puerto Rican Politics and the Challenge of Ethnicity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1998) and Adiós Borinquen Querida: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History and Contributions, with Edna Acosta-Belén et al. (Albany, NY: CELAC, 2000). Cruz is also the editor of Latino Immigration Policy: Context, Issues, Alternatives (Albany, NY: NYLARNet, 2008). His paper “Pluralism and Ethnicity in New York City Politics: The Case of Puerto Ricans” received the Best Faculty Paper Award from the New York State Political Science Association in 2009.
Dr. Cruz is a member of the Hispanic Complete Count Committee of the Capital Region (HCCC). The Committee is working to ensure the Latino community in this region is adequately counted during the 2010 Census; they seek to accomplish this through media outreach and community partnerships with organizations such as the NAACP and The NY Immigration Coalition. HCCC has partnered with Voto Latino, which is the leading non-partisan Latino youth civic engagement organization, to reach the Latino community and maximize Census participation in this hard-to-count community. Voto Latino will make available Census-themed iTune cards and celebrity PSA’s, which will air in local TV stations.
www.HispanicCCC.weebly.com
