Els de Graauw is professor of political science, public policy, and international migration studies at Baruch College and the Graduate Center, both at CUNY. She studies immigration, civil society organizations, urban politics, government bureaucracies, public policy, and qualitative research methods, with a focus on understanding how governmental and nongovernmental organizations build institutional capacity for immigrant integration and representation. She is the (co-)author of Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Cornell University Press, 2016) and Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston (Temple University Press, 2024).