Michele Wucker

Michele Wucker is Executive Director of the World Policy Institute, the nonpartisan center for global policy leadership and publisher of World Policy Journal. She is the author of Wuckercom>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, 1999/2000).

Michele received a 2007 Guggenheim Fellowship for her work on changing views of citizenship, exclusion, and belonging. She is a 2009 Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum, a 2009 Young Leader of the American Council on Germany, and was chosen for the 2008 Progressive Women’s Voices program at the Womens Media Center.

She is a frequent source for major U.S. and international media and has been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, Fox, MSNBC, and PBS; on Air America, Clear Channel, National Public Radio and Public Radio International; and in The New York Times, Boston Globe, Reuters and many other media. Michele lectures frequently at leading U.S. and international universities and policy fora on the subjects of the global economy, immigration, cross-cultural conflict and conciliation, and Latin American politics and economics.

She has written for many U.S. and international publications including The American Prospect, America Economia, The Guardian, Newsday, The New York Times, Texas Observer, Valor Economico, Tikkun, The Washington Post, The Wall Street Journal, and World Policy Journal. Formerly Latin America bureau chief for International Financing Review, Michele has extensive expertise in emerging-market politics and economies. She also is a former staff reporter for The Milwaukee Sentinel, where she covered immigration, community government and police news, including the Jeffrey Dahmer case.

Michele holds a degree in French and policy studies from Rice University in Houston and a Master of International Affairs and Certificate in Latin American Studies at Columbia University's School of International Affairs in New York City. Born in 1969 in Kansas City (Missouri), Michele grew up in Texas and Wisconsin and now lives in New York City.