Tamar Jacoby

[1] She was formerly president of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of small business owners working to advance immigration reform.

After graduating from Yale University in 1976, Jacoby spent a year in Paris working for the Hudson Institute.

Her articles have appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Weekly Standard and Foreign Affairs, among other publications.

Her 1998 book, Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration (Free Press),[5] tells the story of race relations in three American cities – New York, Detroit and Atlanta.

Her edited volumes include Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means to Be American (Basic Books)[6] and This Way Up: New Thinking About Poverty and Economic Mobility (American Enterprise Institute).