About the Russell Sage Foundation and Panelists

One of the oldest American foundations, the Russell Sage Foundation was established by Mrs. Margaret Olivia Sage in 1907 for "the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States." In its early years the foundation undertook major projects in low-income housing, urban planning, social work, and labor reform. The foundation now dedicates itself to strengthening the methods, data, and theoretical core of the social sciences as a means of diagnosing social problems and improving social policies. It also funds researchers at other institutions and supports programs intended to develop new generations of social scientists. The Russell Sage Foundation is an operating foundation directly involved in the conduct and dissemination of social science research.

Panelists:

• Stephen Glauser is a Program Officer at the Russell Sage Foundation. His portfolio includes the Pipeline Grants Competition, the Summer Institutes, and the Small Grants and Targeted Competitions. Since starting as a Program Assistant in 2012, he has worked across all of the program areas at RSF, including assisting in the development of new initiatives and programs, and securing external co-funding. He holds a BA in History from the University at Buffalo and an MS in Environmental Policy and Sustainability Management from the New School. Prior to his MS and joining RSF, he was a law school dropout, a graduate of the French Culinary Institute, cooked in a variety of New York City kitchens, and played too much ultimate frisbee.
• Yalidy Matos, is an assistant professor of political science and Latino and Caribbean studies at Rutgers University – New Brunswick. She earned her Ph.D. from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio and her B.A. degree from Connecticut College in New London, CT. Originally from Dominican Republic, Yalidy is a 1.5 generation immigrant and first-generation scholar. Matos’ scholarly work examines the intersections between race, ethnicity, and public opinion and political behavior. By drawing on theoretical frameworks from various disciplines, she uses a mixed methods approach to understand the racialized nature of U.S. immigration policies as well as other politically consequential public and social policies. Professor Matos examines the political behavior of different racial and ethnic groups in relation to identity politics. Matos’ work can be found in the American Behavioral Scientist, American Politics Research, LABOR: Studies in Working-Class History, Perspectives on Politics, Politics, Groups, and Identities, and Political Research Quarterly. Matos is also the recipient of a Career Enhancement Fellowship (2020) for Junior Faculty from the Woodrow Wilson Foundation.

Moderator: 

Rose Cuison-Villazor is Vice Dean, Professor of Law, Chancellor's Social Justice Scholar, and Director of the Center for Immigration Law, Policy and Justice at Rutgers Law School. Dean Cuison-Villazor teaches, researches and writes in the areas of immigration and citizenship law, property law, Asian Americans and the law, equal protection law and critical race theory.  Her research agenda explores legal structures and systems that determine membership and sense of belonging in the United States.

Dean Cuison-Villazor's current research projects examines the extent to which states, cities, churches and non-state actors such as universities and churches provide “sanctuary” to undocumented immigrants and refugees.

She is co-editor Immigration and Refugee Law and Policy, 7th Ed. (with Stephen Legomsky, David Thronson, and Anil Kalhan) and Integrating Spaces: Property Law and Race (with Alfred Brophy and Kali Murray) (forthcoming Wolters Kluwer 2020).  Previously, Dean Cuison-Villazor was Professor of Law and Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall Research Scholar at the University of California at Davis School of Law. She has also taught at Columbia Law School, Hofstra University Law School and Southern Methodist University School of Law. 

She earned her BA from the University of Texas, her LLM from Columbia Law School, and her JD from American University.