Dr. Andrea Gómez Cervantes is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Comunidades Confined Lab. From Mexico City and having migrated to the U.S. with her mom when she was 12 years old, Andrea is now an Assistant Professor in the Sociology Department at Wake Forest University. Her research interests include immigration, race/ethnicity, gender, Latina/x/os families, and gender violence. In her current book project, Illegality in the Heartland, she investigates the effects of immigration policies on Latin American immigrants’ everyday lives and ethnoracial relations among Latin American immigrants. She is also running a project on political gender violence in Mexico. Her work has been published in Social Problems, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Migration Letters, Sociology Compass, and Feminist Criminology. As a first-gen immigrant and student, Andrea has a great passion for contributing to her community; she has taught English as a Second Language to adult migrants and worked with immigrant rights groups to bring resources to local communities. She now runs an immigrant naturalization workshop in collaboration with local immigrant rights groups and her sociology of immigration students. She serves as a country conditions expert for asylum cases and as a program evaluator focusing on healthcare access as well language access in education. Andrea is a University of California President’s Fellow, a Ford Fellow, and an American Sociological Association Minority Fellowship Program Fellow. Her research has also received support from the National Science Foundation. Learn more about Andrea’s work by visiting her website.