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Michele Wucker
Adjunct Associate Professor of International and Public Affairs
Biography:
Michele Wucker is President of the World Policy Institute, a global thought leadership forum dedicated to emerging challenges, thinkers, and solutions; and Publisher of World Policy Journal.
She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle for Hispaniola.
Michele is a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a 2008 Young Leader of the American Council on Germany, a 2008 Progressive Womens Voices alumna, and a 2007 Guggenheim Fellow.
A sought-after public speaker, Michele lectures frequently about the global economy, immigration and Haiti. In addition, she has been a source for major U.S. and international media including CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, and National Public Radio. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, she has written for many U.S. and international publications including America Economia, The Guardian, Internationale Politik, Newsday, The New York Times, Valor Economico, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal.
Michele is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, PEN, and the Authors Guild; and an honorary fellow of the Foreign Policy Association. She is a graduate of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs, where she is an Alumni Council member; and of Rice University. She sits on the Advisory Board of the Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project and on the Advisory Council for the New York in the World project at SUNY’s Levin Institute.