Julia Gelatt is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute,
working with the U.S. Immigration
Policy Program. Her work focuses on the legal immigration system, demographic
trends, and the
implications of local, state, and federal U.S. immigration policy. Dr. Gelatt
previously worked as a
Research Associate at the Urban Institute, where her mixed-methods research
focused on state policies
toward immigrants; barriers to and facilitators of immigrant families’ access to
public benefits and public
prekindergarten programs; and identifying youth victims of human trafficking.
She was a Research
Assistant at MPI before graduate school. Dr. Gelatt earned her PhD in sociology,
with a specialization in
demography, from Princeton University, where her work focused on the
relationship between
immigration status and children’s health and well-being. She earned a bachelor
of the arts in
sociology/anthropology from Carleton College.