In this Urban Affairs Review Remixed podcast (from 10/9/24), Shannon Gleeson and I discuss our new co-authored book Advancing Immigrant Rights in Houston (Temple University Press, 2024).
In this blogpost, published by the EUI Migration Policy Centre on 10/17/23, I discuss co-authored research with Shannon Gleeson on the struggles to advance immigrant rights in Houston, TX. 
On 3/30/23, I was quoted in an Haitian Times article on nonprofit organizations and the Haitian diaspora in the United States.
On 3/1/22, I was quoted in an article from the CUNY Graduate Center's Office of Communications and Marketing on "Echoes of Stalingrad: Experts Weigh In on the War in Ukraine." Among other things, I said, "Unfortunately, discrimination and disparities in treatment — whether based on country of origin, political ideology, gender, or race and ethnicity — are nothing new in state responses to refugee crises, but Ukraine, too, can do better in facilitating the equitable exit of all who are searching for safety outside of Ukraine."
On 2/11/22, The Hill featured my co-authored research (with Nicole Kreisberg and Shannon Gleeson) on refugee employment declines, originally published in Social Problems.
In this blogpost, published by the EUI Global Citizenship Observatory on 2/8/22, I discuss New York City’s recently enacted law to restore local voting rights for noncitizens. I contextualize  this city law by situating it in the history of noncitizen voting in the United States and by comparing it to other recently adopted initiatives that advance urban citizenship in New York City.
On 12/6/21, BIMI Blog published an op-ed piece I co-authored with Shannon Gleeson (Cornell University) and Nicole Kreisberg (Harvard University), titled "Are Refugee Resettlement Services Doing More Harm Than Good?" While news coverage has focused on the challenges for safe evacuation to the U.S. following the Taliban takeover, mostly overlooked are the challenges still ahead for Afghan evacuees as they navigate an underfunded and disjointed support system focused on short-term resettlement targets.
​​​On 3/24/21, SUM published a short piece on my co-authored article (with Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University), titled "Labor Unions and Undocumented Immigrants: Local Perspectives on Transversal Solidarity During DACA and DAPA." The article, published in Critical Sociology, analyzes local union strategies to build solidarity with undocumented immigrants in Houston and San Francisco.
On 10/21/20, I organized and moderated a panel discussion about "Urban Citizenship: Expanding Democracy to Immigrants in San Francisco and New York City." Carlos Menchaca (NYC City Council District #38), Hong Mei Pang (Chinese for Affirmative Action), Kathleen Coll (University of San Francisco), and Sarah Souza (Prop C Campaign San Francisco) participated in the discussion.
​​On 9/24/20, SUM published a short piece on my article, titled "City Government Activists and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants: Fostering Urban Citizenship within the Confines of US Federalism." The article, published in Antipode, analyzes how — within the confines of US federalism —​ activist city officials have developed policies and practices that include undocumented immigrants in public service provision, formal rights protections, and democratic participation modes.
​​On 9/23/20, I participated in a conference — organized by the French Institute of International Relations (IFRI) — on "Anti-Immigrant Politics and Nativism in Europe and in the United States: What Can Actors in the Field Do?" Due to COVID-19, I couldn't participate in the conference in person, so I was interviewed ahead of time with two other experts. The conference organizers compiled three short videos of our contributions: part 1, part 2, and part 3. ​ 
On 7/2/20, the Chronicle of Philanthropy published my co-authored op-ed (with Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University), titled "Philanthropy Must Continue Its Support for Young Immigrants — Even with the Supreme Court DACA Victory."
On 6/2/20, SUM published a short piece on my co-authored article (with Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University, and Xóchitl Bada. University of Illinois at Chicago), titled "Local Context and Labour-Community Immigrant Rights Coalitions: A Comparison of San Francisco, Chicago, and Houston." The article, published in the Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies, analyzes how local context shapes immigrant-labor partnership strategies in 3 US cities.
On 5/27/20, SUM published a short piece on my co-authored article (with Shannon Gleeson, Cornell University), titled "Metropolitan Context and Immigrant Rights Experiences: DACA Awareness and Support in Houston." The article, published in Urban Geography, analyzes how the context of metropolitan Houston shaped how young undocumented immigrants thought about DACA and went about applying for this federal program.
In June 2019, New York City Council Member Carlos Menchaca visited Amsterdam for several days.  Floris Vermeulen (University of Amterdam) and I wrote a brief blog post on the visit that we organized with financial support from the Centre for Urban Studies and programming support from Pakhuis de Zwijger.
The February 2019 newsletter of the Georg-Simmel Center for Metropolitan Studies at Humboldt University in Berlin published a short piece (in English and German) on a talk I gave there on "Working the System: U.S. Cities and the Rights of Undocumented Immigrants." 
On 2/5/19, SUM published a short piece on my recent Migration Studies article on how graduate programs have responded to the growing need for understanding the causes and consequences of international migration. 
​The New York Times (10/31/18) briefly quoted me in response to President Trump's inaccurate statement at a recent rally that there is a California town where undocumented immigrants took over the town council.
In late April 2018, I taught a week-long seminar on "A Nation of Immigrants? The Politics of Immigration and Immigrant Rights in the United States" at the Universidad Argentina de la Empresa (UADE) in Buenos Aires, Argentina.
​On 4/20/18, I organized a conference at Baruch College on "Immigrant and Refugee Rights in Turbulent Times." The conference featured four academic panels and a keynote speaker, and it was attended by over 100 people.  There is also a Destination Weissman vlog of the event.
The Urban Affairs Forum published a brief discussion of my book Making Immigrant Rights Real: Nonprofits and the Politics of Integration in San Francisco (Cornell University Press, 2016) (3/2/18).
Shannon Gleeson (Cornell University) and I co-authored a short piece, titled "Philanthropic Investments in Immigrant Rights During Turbulent Times," in Politics of Color, the blog of the Journal of Race, Ethnicity, and Politics (2/14/18).
On 2/9/2018, I participated in The City We Need: An Urban Thinkers Campus Conference, held at Fordham University. With Annika Hinze, Jennifer Gordon, and Judy Benjamin (all from Fordam), we discussed the role of cities in current immigration debates.
On 1/22/2018, I had the opportunity to share my research on welcoming city policies and practices with high school students during the A Day of Concern event organized by Friends Seminary, a Quaker school in Manhattan.
Baruch's Marxe School of Public and International Affairs did an alumni spotlight on Jenny Coronel (MPA '16), who worked with me on several research projects during 2015-16.
This Migration, Diversity, and Cities blog (7/20/2017) by Jacqui Broadhead discusses my presentation on city immigrant affairs offices at the IMISCOE 2017 conference in Rotterdam.
Destination Weissman vlog (6/14/2017) created by Dean Aldemaro Romero, Jr. on the award-winning honors thesis of Olivia Sztanga, a student I mentored during the 2016-17 academic year.
I'm quoted for my research on municipal ID cards in this Washington Monthly article (5/22/2017) on "How Cities Can Protect Immigrants in the Age of Trump."
On 5/11/2017, I co-organized a conference at the CUNY Murphy Institute on "Immigration Politics in the Trump Era."  The conference featured 3 panels, and I moderated the final panel on "Community and Local Government Responses."
On 5/5/2017, I organized a conference at Baruch College on "Immigrant Integration in U.S. Cities: Past Lessons, Current Practices, and Future Directions." The conference featured four academic panels and a keynote speaker, and it was attended by over 100 people.  There is also a Destination Weissman vlog of the event.
I was named APSA Member of the Month in February 2017, in recognition of my achievements in the field of Political Science and as a member of the American Political Science Association.
Dean Aldemaro Romero, Jr. wrote a College Talk article (12/4/2016) on my research on nonprofits and the politics of immigrant integration.
The Mercury News (7/26/2016) interviewed me for an article on affordable housing, when I was living in a "tiny house" in Berkeley while doing research in the California Bay Area.
KPFT 90.1 radio interview (3/24/2015)  with Henry Cooper in Houston (TX) about municipal ID cards (the interview starts at 15:11).
BK Live TV interview (3/16/2014) in Brooklyn (NY) about municipal ID cards, with NYC Council Member Carlos Menchaca and Brittny Saunders from the Center for Popular Democracy.
I'm quoted for my research on immigrant rights in San Francisco in this Mission Local article (11/12/2010) on "Why Did Prop. D Fail?"