Integration Institute

The New Americans Integration Institute

The New Americans Integration Institute is a newly launched division of MIRA which will focus on the integration of newcomers into the civic, economic, and social life of America. The institute will work in two areas: first, through direct, on-the-ground integration projects coupled with research derived from these projects, and second, media and communications work to enhance the image of immigrants in our society and public discourse.

Direct projects will encompass four major sub-categories, including citizenship, entrepreneurship, workforce development, and building native-immigrant alliances.

This work is part of a national move to reshape our thinking and action toward a community that values the foreign-born as one of our greatest assets. For the next two years, MIRA will act as the co-chair of the National Partnership for New Americans along with the Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights.

NAII Advisory Board

Name	Affiliation
Mike Bosco	Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Jennifer Brennan	Director, IMPRINT and Policy Manager, Upwardly Global
George C. Chryssis	Benjamin Franklin Institute of Technology
Michael Dimino	Senior Business Advisor Mass Small Business Development Center (MSBDC) Network Boston Regional Office and Minority Business Center University of Massachusetts Boston
Marcia Drew Hohn	Director of Public Education The Immigrant Learning Center, Inc.
Paul Feltman	Director of the Global Talent Bridge program for World Education Services
Hanna Gebretensae	Academic Dean Division Chair, Early Childhood Education Urban College of Boston
Paul Grogan	President, The BostonFoundation
Paul Horwitz
Alvaro Lima	Director of Research Boston Redevelopment Authority
Barbara L'Italien	State Treasurer's office
Geri Mannion
Ron Marlow	Assistant Secretary for Access and Opportunity Office of Access and Opportunity Executive Office for Administration and Finance
Suzette Brooks Masters	Consultant, J.M. Kaplan Fund
Margie McHugh	Migration Policy Institute Co-Director, National Center on Immigrant Integration Policy
Eva Millona	Executive Director MIRA Coalition
Vinit Nijhawan	Managing Director, Technology Development Office Lecturer School of Management & Director Enterprise Programs, ITEC Boston University
Reggie Nunnally	Executive Director Massachusetts Supplier Diversity Office
Andre Porter	Executive Director Office of Small Business & Entrepreneurship
Robert F Rivers.	President, Eastern Bank
Dan Sherman	Senior Program Officer The Boston Foundation
Carlos E Siqueira.	Associate Director for Research Mauricio Gastón Institute of Latino Community Development and Public Policy UMass Boston
Damien Thorman	National Program Director Knight Foundation
Paul Watanabe	Director, Institute for Asian American Studies, and Associate Professor, Political Science University of Massachusetts Boston