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Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Senior Fellow at Boston College’s Lynch School of Education and Human Development and the Director of its new Immigration Initiative. Her research focuses on elucidating the child and youth experience of immigration—how their development is shaped by immigration and how they are changed by the process. A focus on school settings has been an enduring theme in this work as schools are a first contact point between the immigrant children, their families, and the new society.

Her books include: Children of Immigration, Learning a New Land, Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants, Education: Our Global Compact in a Time of Crisis, among others. She has been awarded an American Psychological Association Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of cultural psychology of immigration. She is also the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and is a member of both the National Academy of Education and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.