Director
Ernesto Castañeda
Director, The Immigration Lab and Center for Latin American & Latino Studies
Lab Coordinators
Diana Rojas Hernandez
Lab Coordinator; International Relations Student at American University
Catherine Grau
Lab Coordinator; International Relations Student at American University
Stephanie Wiener
Digital Communications and Marketing Coordinator; International Studies Student at American University
Previous Lab Coordinators
Katheryn Olmos
2025-2026 Lab Coordinator; CLALS Program Coordinator,
MA Sociology Research & Practice at American University
Erica Criollo
2024-2025 Lab Coordinator; M.A International Development at American University
Makenna Lindsay
2023-2024 Lab Coordinator; PhD student at Johns Hopkins University’s Bloomberg School of Public Health
Daniel Jenks
2021-2022 Lab Coordinator; Sociology Ph.D. Student at the University of Pennsylvania