Marcelo M. Suarez-Orozco, the Victor S. Thomas Professor of Education at Harvard University, is codirector of the Harvard Immigration Projects. He is author of over eighty scholarly articles and several books, including "Children of Immigration "(with Carola Suarez-Orozco, 2001), "Cultures Under Siege: Collective Violence and Trauma "(with Antonius Robben, 2000), and "Crossings: Mexican Immigration in Interdisciplinary Perspectives "(1998). Mariela Paez received her doctorate in Education from Harvard in 2001. She is currently working as a researcher at Harvard University.