Carola Suárez-Orozco

Harvard University

Professor

Carola Suárez-Orozco is a Professor in Residence at the Harvard Graduate School of Education and the Director of the Immigration Initiative at Harvard. Her research focuses on elucidating the child and youth experience of immigration—how is their development shaped by immigration, and how are they changed by the process? A focus on school settings has been an enduring theme in this work, as schools are the first contact point between immigrant children, their families, and the new society. Her books include Children of Immigration, Learning a New Land, Transitions: The Development of the Children of Immigrants, and Education: Our Global Compact in a Time of Crisis. She has been awarded an American Psychological Association (APA) Presidential Citation for her contributions to the understanding of the cultural psychology of immigration. She is also the recipient of a 2024 Guggenheim Fellowship.