Michele Wucker

On January 21. I appeared with Marselha Gonçalves Margerin of the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights on a Worldfocus Radio segment on the Dominican Republic and Haiti, hosted by Martin Savidge. Follow the link for audio and comments.

Tags: Dominican Republic, earthquake, Haiti, history, international policy, Latin America, migration

Here are links to my recent appearances on National Public Radio talking about the Haiti earthquake and Dominican-Haitian relations.
Latino USA, January 21 The Haiti Tragedy (scroll down to  Haiti, the Dominican Republic, and Latin America)
Talk of the Nation, January 25: To Rebuild, Put Haitians in the Lead

Tags: Dominican Republic, earthquake, Haiti, international development, international policy, [...]

Newsday quoted me in a July 20 article, “Ecuador Urges Immigrants to Come Back Home,” by Sumathi Reddy. The article talks about programs to finance returning migrants who want to set up businesses. Click on the article title to read the story.

Tags: brain drain, Ecuador, Latin America, migration

Hi,
I’ll be on Fox & Friends tomorrow morning, Tuesday February 10, at (gulp) 6:22 am ET. Channel 44 in NYC.
We’ll be talking about the lawsuit against an Arizona rancher who held 16 illegal immigrants at gunpoint and claims to have rounded up 12,000 immigrants and handed them over to the Border Patrol during the last [...]

Me being interviewed on PBS Worldfocus January 28, 2009, about the impact of the global economic crisis on social unrest.
Click the link below for the full story, links and comments:

http://worldfocus.org/blog/2008/10/03/watch-w orldfocus-on-tv/1577/

Tags: economic crisis, global economy, Latin America, politics

Click below for a summary and more video excerpts of the workshop on “Top Risks and Ethical Decisions 2009″ at which I was a panelist on January 13, 2009, along with Ian Bremmer and Art Kleiner:
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000099
Here’s video of the full event: http://www.cceia.org/resources/video/data/000103

Tags: economic crisis, global economy, Latin America, migration, politics