Join us as we host Dr. Yael Schacher, Fatima Sanz, and Dr. W. Courtland Robinson as our fifth STEMulate The Vote Seminar Series panelists!
Yael Schacher, PhD
Yael Schacher is senior U.S. advocate at Refugees International in Washington D.C., where she focuses on asylum, refugee admissions, temporary protected status, and humanitarian visas. In recent reports for Refugees International, Yael has addressed the negative impacts of U.S. COVID-19 border and deportation policies and suggested alternative approaches that better respond to public health concerns while upholding the rights of asylum seekers. Prior to joining Refugees International, Yael worked on her forthcoming book about the history of asylum in the United States as a postdoctoral fellow at the Institute for Historical Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Before that she spent several years teaching about immigration at the University of Connecticut and volunteering at the legal services office of the Connecticut Institute for Refugees and Immigrants. She has an M.A. in History and a Ph.D. in American Studies from Harvard University.
Fatima Sanz, M.S.Ed., MPA
As the Policy Strategist at World Education Services, Fatima tracks policy changes on the issue of immigrant economic integration at the state and federal level. She also works closely with partners to advocate for policies aimed at removing barriers to employment for immigrants and refugees. Fatima has a background in international education, and local and national policy research. She holds an MPA and an M.S.Ed. in International Education Development from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as a B.S. in International Politics from Georgetown University.
W. Courtland Robinson, Ph.D.
Courtland Robinson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor in the Department of International Health with a joint appointment in the Department of Population Family and Reproductive Health, and is also core faculty with the Center for Humanitarian Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. His research interests have focused on populations in migration, whether displaced by conflict or natural disaster, or in the context of migrant labor and human trafficking.
