Laura Carlsen

Laura Carlsen is Senior Analyst with the Americas Program in Mexico City, at americas.org. She is a frequent radio, print and television commentator for global, U.S., and Latin American media, a member of KPFK's weekly round table on national and international affairs, host of the weekly television show "Hecho en América", and regular columnist with Foreign Policy in Focus, Counterpunch, Palabras al Margen, Desinformémonos and Counterpunch, in English and Spanish. Carlsen coordinates the area of knowledge and global solidarity for the international women's organization, Just Associates (JASS).

She publishes numerous articles and chapters on social, economic and political aspects of Mexico, co-edited Confronting Globalization: Economic Integration and Popular Resistance in Mexico and has a forthcoming book called "Up Against the Wall: US-Mexico Relations from NAFTA to Now.

Carlsen has appeared on NBC, CBC, BBC, DW, CGTN, Telemundo, Univisión, "Democracy Now," "Canal Once" (Mexico) and others, and is a frequent radio guest in the U.S. and Mexico. She has been quoted and published in a variety of print and electronic news sources including the Washington Post, New York Times, Boston Globe, Los Angeles Times, InterPress Service, Guardian, Christian Science Monitor, etc. . She is frequently a speaker at national and international conferences and Congressional briefings. She has won two Project Censored awards for reporting on important but ignored issues in the region.

Carlsen holds a B.A. in Social Thought and Institutions from Stanford University: Emphasis on Women's Studies, and a Masters degree in Latin American Studies, also from Stanford. In 1986 she received a Fulbright Scholarship to study the impact of the Mexican economic crisis on women and has lived in Mexico City since then.

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Sub-specialties: US-Mexico, immigration, NAFTA, asylum and refugees, Latin American politics, women's rights and movements in the Western Hemisphere