Michele Wucker

Michele Wucker

Michele Wucker is Executive Director of the World Policy Institute, a nonpartisan center for progressive global policy research and thought leadership which publishes the widely cited and highly respected quarterly magazine, World Policy Journal.

She is the author of LOCKOUT: Why America Keeps Getting Immigration Wrong When Our Prosperity Depends on Getting It Right (Public Affairs 2006/paperback 2007; a Washington Post Book World “Best Nonfiction of 2006″ Selection) and Why the Cocks Fight: Dominicans, Haitians and the Struggle For Hispaniola (FSG/Hill & Wang, 1999).

Michele received a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging.

A sought-after public speaker, Michele lectures frequently about immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Caribbean politics. In addition, she has been a source for major U.S. and international media including The New York Times, The Boston Globe, Reuters, CNN, CNBC, Fox News, MSNBC, National Public Radio and Public Radio International.

Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, Michele has written for many U.S. and Latin American publications including The American Prospect, America Economia, The Guardian, Internationale Politik, Newsday, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Valor Economico, Tikkun, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal.

Michele is an advisor to Batey Relief Alliance and the Dominican Republic Education and Mentoring (DREAM) Project.

She is a graduate of Rice University and of Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs.