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NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS | RESEARCH CENTRES | RESEARCHERS

NON-GOVERNMENTAL ORGANIZATIONS

CHURCH WORLD SERVICE jsmyers Jen Smyers
Associate Director, Immigration and Refugee Policy
Email: jsmyers@cwsglobal.org
Website: CWS – Jen Smyers

Office:
Church World Service
Elkhart Corporate Center
28606 Phillips St
P.O. Box 968
Elkhart, IN 46515

Email: info@cwsglobal.org
Tel: 800-297-1516 or 574-264-3102
Fax: 574-262-0966
EPISCOPAL MIGRATION MINISTRIES dstein Deb Stein
Director & Team Leader
Email: dstein@episcopalchurch.org
Tel: (800) 334-7626
Website: EMM – Deb Stein

Office:
The Episcopal Church
815 Second Avenue
New York, NY, 10017

Email: emm@episcopalchurch.org
Tel: 800-334-7626

kconway Katie Conway
Immigration and Refugee Policy Analyst, Office of Government Relations
Email: kconway@episcopalchurch.org
Tel: (800) 228-0515 or (202) 547-7300
Website: TEC – Katie Conway
UNITED STATES CONFERENCE OF CATHOLIC BISHOP mwilch Matthew Wilch
Refugee Policy Advisor
Email: mwilch@usccb.org

Office:
United States Conference of Catholic Bishop
3211 Fourth Street NE
Washington DC 20017

Email: Contact form
Tel: 202-541-3000

REFUGEEONE hsweitzer Helen Sweitzer
Adjustment Program Manager
Email: hsweitzer@refugeeone.org

Office:
Chicago Office
RefugeeOne
4753 N. Broadway
Suite 401
Chicago, IL 60640

Tel: (773) 989-5647
Fax: (773) 989-0484
Email: info@refugeeone.org

JESUIT REFUGEE SERVICE (USA) mschroeder Mitzi Schroeder
Director, Policy
Email: mschroeder@jesuit.org
Website: JRS (USA) – Mitzi Schroeder

Office:
Jesuit Refugee Service (USA)
1016 16th St NW Ste 500
Washington, D.C. 20036

Tel: 202.629.5948 (Clare Bonsignore)

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RESEARCH CENTRES

CENTER FOR FORCED MIGRATION STUDIES (CFMS) gruffer Gayla Ruffer
Director
Email: g-ruffer@northwestern.edu

Office:
Center for Forced Migration Studies (CFMS)
Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies
Northwestern University
1902 Sheridan Road
Evanston, IL 60208

Email: cfms@northwestern.edu

INSTITUTE FOR THE STUDY OF INTERNATIONAL MIGRATION (ISIM)
blowell B. Lindsay Lowell
Acting Executive Director; Director of Policy Studies
Email: lowellbl@georgetown.edu
Tel: +1 202-298-0206
Website: GU – B. Lindsay Lowell

Office:
Institute for the Study of Forced Migration
Georgetown University
Harris Building
3300 Whitehaven St., Third Floor
Washington D.C. 20007

Tel: (202) 687.2258
Fax: (202) 687.2541
Email: isim@georgetown.edu

Sanjula S Weerasinghe
Research Associate
Email: ssw33@georgetown.edu
Tel: +1 202-687-7219
Website: ISIM – Sanjula Weerasinghe

Research interests: Human rights, international human rights law, forced migration, international migration, international refugee law, and international law, sociology, and migration studies
ataylor Abbie Taylor
Research Associate
Email: act64@georgetown.edu
Website: ISIM- Abby Taylor

Research interests: Urban refugees; displacement; health and health care in Iraq; social and political trends in Syria; education of children and youth in Arab countries

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RESEARCHERS

GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY smartin Susan F. Martin
Director, Institute for the Study of International Migration; Herzberg Professor, International Migration
Email: martinsf@georgetown.edu
Tel: +1 202-687-2153
Website: GU – Susan Martin

Research interests: Refugees in international relations; international migration and development; humanitarian crises
NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY gruffer Galya Ruffer
Director, Centre for Forced Migration Studies; Director, International Studies; Senior Lecturer, Department of Political Science
Email: g-ruffer@northwestern.edu
Tel: 847-491-3759
Website: NU – Gaya Ruffler

Research interests: Forced migration and refugee studies, citizenship, comparative constitutionalism, testimony and international criminal justice; conflict studies
kseibel Kimberly Seibel
PhD Candidate, Department of Cultural Anthropology
Email: kaseibel@gmail.com
Website: Academia – Kimberly Seibel

Research interests: Anthropology, aging & the life course, refugee studies, refugee resettlement, welfare state, public policy – social welfare policy, bureaucracy, space and place, belonging and citizenship, and community-based participatory research
SOUTHERN METHODIST UNIVERSITY fnibbs Faith Nibbs
Director, Forced Migration Innovation Project; Research Assistant Professor, Department of Anthropology
Email: fnibbs@smu.edu
Tel: 214-768-0039
Website: SMU – Faith Nibbs

Research interests: Refugees and forced migration; migration and children of immigrants; immigrant integration; diaspora; transnationalism; ethnicity and multiculturalism; livelihoods and development; social media and migration; applied anthropology; hmong studies; North America; Europe; Southeast Asia

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