Miriam Feldblum is the president and CEO of the nonpartisan, nonprofit Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration, an alliance of over 580 college and university leaders of public and private colleges and universities, working to support immigrant, refugee, and international students, and advance forward-looking policies and practices at the federal, state and campus levels. A national expert on the intersection of immigration and higher education and author of Reconstructing Citizenship: The Politics of Nationality Reform and Immigration in Contemporary France, Miriam has written extensively on immigrant, refugee, and international students, immigration policy, and higher education practices. She previously served as vice president for student affairs, dean of students, and professor of politics at Pomona College, as special assistant to the president, faculty research associate, and senior director at the California Institute of Technology, and as assistant professor at the University of San Francisco. She received a BA in political science from Barnard College, and MA, MPhil, and PhD degrees in political science from Yale University. She is on the Board of TheDream.US and a non-resident fellow at the Migration Policy Institute.