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U.S.-Mexico relations are too often framed in narrow terms of security and drug trafficking. Mexico has much more to tell, in the bonds of business, family, and friendship that link our countries. We share more than just a continent, we share a destiny. Better understanding of our common challenges and opportunities can help assure a brighter future on both sides of the border.
Edward Schumacher-Matos brings humor and affection to the story of Mexico today. He is the director of the Harvard Immigration and Integration Studies Project and teaches at the Kennedy School of Government. Previously, he was the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor and a Shorenstein Fellow at the Kennedy School. He writes a nationally syndicated column for The Washington Post Writers Group, and is working on a book on unauthorized immigration. He was the managing editor of The Wall Street Journal Americas, a foreign correspondent for The New York Times, and member of a Pulitzer Prize-winning team at The Philadelphia Inquirer. He founded the Rumbo chain of Spanish-language newspapers in Texas and has written for Foreign Affairs.
Schumacher-Matos holds a bachelors degree from Vanderbilt and a masters degree from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts. He was a Fulbright Fellow in Japan, and a Bi-National Commission Fellow in Spain and is on the boards of the Tomas Rivera Policy Institute at the University of Southern California and the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid.
This lecture is part of our year-long series in preparation for Mexico’s 2010 celebration of their bicentennial.
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