Stephanie Canizales

Speaker Bio:  Stephanie L. Canizales, PhD, is a researcher, author, and professor at the University of California, Berkeley, and Faculty Director of the Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative. Stephanie specializes in the study of international migration and immigrant integration, with particular interest in the experiences of Latin American migrants in the United States. Throughout her research and writing, Stephanie has explored how displacement and migration shape the everyday lives of children and their families, how immigrant children and families learn and navigate the too-often constrained structures of opportunities in the US, and immigrants’ articulations of success and well-being within an increasingly unequal US society. Stephanie’s books, Sin Padres, Ni Papeles, and Everyday Futures, take on many of these issues from the perspective of unaccompanied children and teens.

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Stephanie is the daughter of Salvadoran immigrants whose experiences growing up as unaccompanied youth in LA motivate her commitment to public scholarship. Stephanie’s research has appeared in the New York Times, the Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times, among other public outlets. She aims to impact policy through her work as a Resident Scholar with the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services and a Research Consultant at UNICEF.