Ramona Hernandez, community leader, sociologist and historian, is Professor of Sociology at

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and the director of the

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. She is the author of various scholarly works about Dominican migration, workers mobility, and the restructuring of the world economy.

Education

In 1979, Ramona Hernandez completed a BA in Latin American History, with a Minor in Puerto Rican Studies at

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. She then received an

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., Latin American and Caribbean Studies from New York University and a Ph.D. in Sociology from

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Professional career

Ramona Hernandez became the director of the DSI in 2001. In 2003, Mayor

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appointed her to the NYC Board of Education. In 2004, she rejected one of the mayor's proposals, which took major attention in the press. Hernandez is also a trustee of the Sociological Initiatives Foundation and of the International Institute of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences.

Honors

* Meritorious Order of Duarte, Sánchez y Mella.

Select bibliography

* "The Dominican Americans" (1998) * "The Mobility of Workers Under Advanced Capitalism: Dominican Migration to the United States" (2002) * "Desde la Orilla: hacia una nacionalidad sin desalojos" (2004)

References

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