About the Author

Tarry Hum is Chair of the Department of Urban Studies at Queens College and a member of the Doctoral Faculty at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. She is the author of Making a Global Immigrant Neighborhood: Sunset Park (Temple).
Ron Hayduk is Professor of Political Science at San Francisco State University and author of Democracy for All: Restoring Immigrant Voting in the United States and Gatekeepers to the Franchise: Shaping Election Administration in New York, and co-editor of From Act Up to the WTO: Urban Protest and Community Building in the Era of Globalization, and Democracy’s Moment: Reforming America’s Political System in the 21st Century.
Francois Pierre-Louis Jr. is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College, CUNY. He is the author of Haitians in New York City: Transnationalism and Hometown Associations.
Michael Alan Krasner is an Associate Professor of Political Science at Queens College and co-director of the Taft Institute for Government and Civic Education. He is the co-author of American Government: Structure and Process, Second Edition (with Stephen Chaberski) and the author of Going for It: How to Organize a Grassroots Campaign and Win, and Immigrant New Yorkers: Use the Power of Your Vote!