Leisy J. Abrego

PROFESSOR, UCLA

Dr. Leisy J. Abrego (she/her) was born in El Salvador and is Professor of Chicana/o and Central American Studies at UCLA. She is a law & society scholar who studies the intimate consequences of U.S. foreign and immigration policies for Central American migrants and Latinx families in the United States. Her books include, Sacrificing Families: Navigating Laws, Labor, and Love Across Borders (Stanford University Press, 2014), Immigrant Families (co-authored with Cecilia Menjívar and Leah Schmalzbauer, Polity, 2017), and We Are Not Dreamers: Undocumented Scholars Theorize Undocumented Life in the United States (co-edited with Genevieve Negrón-Gonzales, Duke University Press, 2020).