Aresha Martinez-Cardoso, PhD, Assistant Professor of Public Health Sciences, has received an Early Career Award from the University of Wisconsin Institute for Research on Poverty (IRP). The award provides career development opportunities to poverty and social mobility scholars who are in the early stages of their research careers and who have the potential for leadership in supporting members of populations that are underrepresented among academic researchers.
Martinez-Cardoso leads the Embodying Racism Lab at UChicago. Working with Alicia Riley from the University of California, Santa Cruz and Mizue Aizeki from the Immigrant Defense Project in New York, the team will use support from the grant to study policies implemented by county governments across the US to limit the collaboration between the criminal justice system and immigration enforcement. To understand the impact of these policies on the health and wellbeing of immigrant communities, they will create a novel entanglement policy index and test if county-level entanglement policies are associated with safety-net participation and health outcomes in the NY Metropolitan Area. This work will answer critical question about how local policies can bolster the wellbeing and mobility of Latinx families, a growing demographic of our nation’s population.
The IRP, founded in 1966 at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is a nonpartisan research institution dedicated to producing and disseminating rigorous evidence to inform policies and programs to combat poverty, inequality, and their effects in the United States.
