“I’ve been researching human rights and immigration from Central America since the 1980s,” Elizabeth Oglesby writes. “In today’s polarized debates over immigration, the substantial contributions that Central American immigrants have made to U.S. society over the past 30 years rarely come up.”
Elizabeth Oglesby
Elizabeth Oglesby is the associate professor of Latin American Studies and Geography at the University of Arizona. Oglesby has been researching human rights and migration in Central America since the 1980s. She is also a co-editor of "The Guatemala Reader: History, Culture, Politics" and "Guatemala: The Question of Genocide." She was an expert witness in the Guatemalan genocide trials in 2013 and 2018 and is a 2018 Public Voices fellow with the OpEd Project.