NYC New Liberals
Dr. Leah Boustan, Princeton Economist & author of Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success will be joining us
312 W 36th St. 4th floor 312 West 36th Street #4th floor New York, NY 10018
Dr. Leah Boustan is a Professor of Economics at Princeton University, where she also serves as the Director of the Industrial Relations Section. Her research lies at the intersection between economic history and labor economics. Her first book, Competition in the Promised Land: Black Migrants in Northern Cities and Labor Markets (Princeton University Press, 2016) examines the effect of the Great Black Migration from the rural south during and after World War II. Her recent work, including her new book Streets of Gold: America's Untold Story of Immigrant Success (PublicAffairs 2022), is on the mass migration from Europe to the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Professor Boustan is co-director of the Development of the American Economy Program at the National Bureau of Economic Research. She also serves as co-editor at the American Economic Journal: Applied Economics. Professor Boustan was named an Alfred P. Sloan Research Fellow in 2012 and won the IZA Young Labor Economists Award in 2019.
Leading the discussion is NYC New Liberal member Raquel Lima. Raquel immigrated to the US from Sao Paulo, Brazil at eighteen, accompanying her family as her father obtained employment in NY. Raquel’s road to citizenship was long and difficult spending years at beginning of her adulthood waiting for a workers’ permit to obtain legal employment. This experience sparked an interest in immigration reform, which Raquel advocates for passionately. She hopes that current & future immigrants have a speedier and less burdensome process so they can better adapt to the already challenging process of moving to a new country and establishing a new life.
Raquel is a Senior Administrative Manager for Research in the Department of Pediatrics at Northwell Health. She is responsible for overseeing the application, execution, and compliance of Federal, State and local grants, as well as clinical trials and research. Among these, Raquel is heavily involved in Community Outreach grants such as Child Obesity Prevention, Special Supplemental Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Children (WIC), New York Centers of Environmental Excellence, and NowPow. She lives in Flushing, Queens with her husband and two cats.