Michele Wucker is the author of Lockout: Why America Keeps Getting
Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right
(PublicAffairs, 2006) and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians, and the Struggle for Hispaniola (Hill & Wang, 1999/2000). As a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, she has written extensively about international debt, immigration and development, migrant worker remittances, and immigrant social and economic incorporation. She lectures frequently at leading universities on immigration policy, international economics and business, and Latin American politics.

Wucker is a former Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review and has written for many U.S. and international publications including The American Prospect, AmericaEconomia, Harper's, Newsday, The New York Daily News, The New York Times Book Review, opendemocracy.net, Valor Economico, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, Worth, and World Policy Journal. In addition, she has been a source for major U.S. and international media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, The Miami Herald, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, National Public Radio, Voice of America, and Public Radio International.

A graduate of Rice University and Columbia University's School of
International and Public Affairs, she grew up in Texas and Wisconsin and has made New York City her home. Michele's website is www.wucker.com.

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