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About Us

Our mission is to ensure that all young people grow up understanding migration as a fundamental characteristic of the human condition, in order to develop the knowledge, empathy and mindsets that sustain inclusive and welcoming communities.

We live in an era of mass migration. Young people – whether they are part of an arriving or receiving culture – strive to form their identities as learners, community members, and change-makers in the context of this global phenomenon. We are catalyzing a community of educational leaders and social organizations around making migration a part of their curriculum and culture (in both formal and informal learning settings) so that all students can feel supported in their social, emotional, academic, and civic growth.

We were founded in July 2017 by Adam Strom, the former Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves, and pioneering scholars of immigration and education, Carola Suarez-Orozco, the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization & Education at UCLA and Marcelo Suarez-Orozco, the Wasserman Dean of the Graduate School of Education and Information Sciences at UCLA. The project is developing rigorously vetted resources for classrooms and opportunities for lifelong learning and quality professional development to foster the civic skills, social, and intellectual habits necessary for democracy to flourish in the age of mass migrations. [more]

Our Team

We have a deep passion for education, in and out of schools. Members of our team have presented our work in a variety of settings, to a wide range of audiences, from the Vatican and the White House to museums, international conferences, and school-based learning communities. The educational resources we have developed have been used by tens of thousands of teachers and millions of students around the world and the books and papers we have written are foundational texts in the field of education, immigration, and youth. At Re-Imagining Migration we bring these experiences to one of the defining issues of our time.

Adam Strom

Director of ReImagining Migration

Throughout his career, Mr. Strom has connected the Academy, to classrooms, and the community by using the latest scholarship to encourage learning about identity, bias, belonging, history, and the challenges and opportunities of civic engagement in our globalized world. The resources developed under Strom’s direction have been used in tens of thousands of classrooms and experienced by millions of students around the world including Stories of Identity: Religion, Migration, and Belonging in a Changing World and What Do We Do with a Difference? France and The Debate Over Headscarves in Schools, Identity, and Belonging in a Changing Great Britain, and the viewer’s guide to I Learn America. Before joining the ReImagining Migration Project, Strom was the Director of Scholarship and Innovation at Facing History and Ourselves.

Carola Suárez-Orozco

Professor of Human Development and Psychology and the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA

Professor Suárez-Orozco’s previous books include: Children of Immigration, Learning a New Land, and Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants, the winner of the Best Edited Book Award presented by the Society for Research on Adolescence. She has been awarded an APA Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of the cultural psychology of immigration and has served as Chair of the APA Presidential Task Force on Immigration.

Marcelo Suárez-Orozco

Professor of Human Development and Psychology and the Co-Director of the Institute for Immigration, Globalization, and Education at UCLA

Professor Suárez-Orozco leads two academic departments, 16 nationally renowned research institutes, and two innovative demonstration schools at UCLA’s Graduate School of Education & Information Studies. His research focuses on cultural psychology and psychological anthropology, with an emphasis on mass migration, globalization, and education. Upon arriving at UCLA in 2012, he founded the Institute for Immigrant Children, Youth, and Families, which he co-directs with Dr. Carola Suárez-Orozco, UCLA Ed & IS professor of education. A native of Buenos Aires, Suárez-Orozco earned his A.B. in psychology, M.A. in anthropology, and Ph.D. in anthropology at UC Berkeley.

Veronica Boix-Mansilla

Lecturer in Education and Senior Principal Investigator at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education

As a lecturer in Education and Senior Principal Investigator at Project Zero, Harvard Graduate School of Education, Boix-Mansilla founded the Future of Learning Institute. Her research draws on cognitive and social psychology and curriculum studies to examine the conditions that enable individuals to advance an interdisciplinary understanding of problems of contemporary global significance to develop intercultural competence. Boix Mansilla works in close partnership with practitioners nationally and internationally in spaces ranging from the Portland (ME) and the District of Columbia Public Schools and the International Baccalaureate, to the Smithsonian Institute and Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting. She is the author of multiple publications including Educating for Global Competence: Preparing Our Youth to Engage the World. She served as an advisor to the OECD where she co-developed of the OECD-PISA global competence framework.