Pro-Immigration Protests: USC Experts Available

April 27, 2006

NATIONWIDE PRO-IMMIGRATION PROTESTS EXPECTED
MAY 1: UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA EXPERTS
AVAILABLE

(in alphabetical order)

RALPH FERTIG, clinical associate professor in the USC School
of Social Work, lectures on social welfare policy. He has been a
federal administrative judge, civil rights lawyer, social worker and
sociologist. Contact him at 213-821-3112, 310-474-3815, or rfertig@usc.edu.

NIELS FRENZEN, assistant clinical professor of law in the USC
Gould School of Law, is an immigration and refugee law expert,
op-ed author, and past president and board member of the
Coalition for Humane Immigrants' Rights of Los Angeles.
Contact him at 213-740-8933, 213-842-2526 or
nfrenzen@law.usc.edu.

FELIX GUTIERREZ, professor of journalism in the USC
Annenberg School for Communication, is an expert on social
diversity in the media and Latinos in the United States. He
has been quoted widely regarding the mainstream
media's failure to anticipate the scale of pro-immigration
protests. Speaks Spanish. Contact him at 213-821-6260 or
ffgutier@usc.edu.

PAUL LICHTERMAN, associate professor of sociology and
religion in the USC College of Letters, Arts and Sciences,
can discuss the role of religion in social movements and
political organizing. Speaks Spanish. Contact him at 213-821-2331, 323-667-2430
or lichterm@usc.edu.

DOWELL MYERS, professor of urban planning and
demography in the USC School of Policy, Planning, and
Development, can discuss the size of the immigrant presence in
California, the greatly slowed growth of immigration to California,
the declining role of illegal immigrants and the political activism
of the settled immigrant class. Contact him at 213-740-
7095 or dowell@usc.edu, or through USC Media Relations.

HARRY PACHON, professor in the USC School of Policy,
Planning, and Development and president of the Latino
think tank Tomás Rivera Policy Institute, can discuss
immigrant political participation and general Latino politics. Speaks
Spanish. Contact him at 213-821-5615 or pachon@usc.edu.

LAWRENCE PALINKAS, professor in the USC School of Social
Work, studies medically underserved Latinos in California and can
discuss the patterns of adaptation and adjustment of immigrant
populations and their health-related consequences. Contact him at
213-740-3990, 858-922-7265, or palinkas@usc.edu.