Natasha Iskander
Assistant Professor of Public Policy
Natasha Iskander, Assistant Professor of Public Policy, received her PhD in Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). Her research interests include labor migration and its relationship to economic development, labor mobilization and its relationship to workforce development, and processes of institutional innovation and organizational learning. Recent work includes a study comparing the processes by which the governments of Mexico and Morocco elaborated policies to build a link between labor emigration and local economic development, and a study on undocumented immigrant labor protests in France during the late 1990s. She is currently working on a project on Mexican immigrants in the construction industry, investigating how tacit skill moves across national borders. Natasha Iskander also holds a Master in City Planning from MIT, and a BA in Cultural Studies from Stanford University. Prior to her doctoral studies, she worked for several years in non-profits in Egypt and the United States on issues of urban development, micro credit and community health planning. She has also worked as a community activist and migrant labor organizer.
