Miriam Feldblum is co-founder and executive director of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. She previously served as vice president for student affairs, dean of students, and professor of politics at Pomona College, as special assistant to the president and faculty research associate at Caltech, and assistant professor of politics at University of San Francisco. A national expert on the intersection of immigration and higher education and author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France, Miriam has written extensively and delivered presentations on undocumented, international, and refugee students, immigration policy and higher education, and highly skilled labor in the United States.  She is a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute