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About: Margaret (Peggy Sands) Orchowski has covered immigration reform on Capitol Hill as a Congressional Journalist since 2005, as the Bill Analysis Editor for Congressional Quarterly, a Congressional Correspondent and for the Hispanic Outlook magazine. Since 2016 she also is the Senior Correspondent for The Georgetowner newspaper writing under the byline Peggy Sands. With the timely publication of her latest book 'The Law That Changed the Face of America: The Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965' (Rowman & Littlefield, 2015), she is available for speaking engagements, as a go-to expert reporter and for writing articles that give sensible and thoughtful background about today's hot issues on immigration like DREAMERS, DACA and foreign students.
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About: Anna Wang, author of Inconvenient Memories: A Personal Account of the Tiananmen Square Incident and the China Before and After. Anna Wang was born in China in 1966 just after the 'cultural revolution.' While still an infant, her parents’ jobs required them to leave her to grow up with her grandmother, a woman whose feet had been crippled in the brutal Chinese tradition of foot binding. Wang loved to read novels, which were forbidden her home, and would sneak them whenever she could.
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About: Dr. Carol M. Swain is an award-winning political scientist, a former professor of political science and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, and a lifetime member of the James Madison Society, an international community of scholars affiliated with the James Madison Program in American Ideals and Institutions at Princeton University. Before joining Vanderbilt in 1999, Dr. Swain was a tenured associate professor of politics and public policy at Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Dr. Swain is passionate about empowering others to raise their voices in the public square.
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About: Tracy Jong is registered to practice before the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO), the Western District and Southern District of New York (federal court) and the State Bar of New York. In addition to a doctorate of law, Tracy has scientific and technical training in the chemical arts as well as many years of private legal practice and government experience. Tracy is active in all core practice areas of the firm: Patent, Trademark, Restaurant/Bar, Winery/Microbrewery & Liquor Law. Tracy is active in many professional and community organizations.
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About: Tapping into the hot topic of immigrants, author Roger Higgins’s timely book Billy Gogan, American follows the life of an orphaned Irish child who immigrated to America in 1844. 'I chose this time period because it was really at the cusp of the modern era,' says author Roger Higgins. 'The biggest challenge was staying alive. It was putting food on the table, or in this case in Billy’s mouth. It was having somewhere to live, some shelter.' This riveting historical fiction is told in the first person, which lends an immediacy to the story that will reverberate with readers.
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