Julia Gelatt, Ph.D

Julia Gelatt, Ph.D. is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Migration Policy Institute, working with the U.S. Immigration Policy Program. Her work focuses on the legal immigration system, demographic trends, and the implications of local, state, and federal U.S. immigration policy. Dr. Gelatt previously worked as a reserach associate at the Urban Institute, where her mixed-methods research focused on state policies toward immigrants, barriers to and facilitators of immigrant families’ access to public benefits and public prekindergarten programs and identifying youth victims of human trafficking. She was a research assistant at MPI before graduate school. Dr. Gelatt earned her Ph.D. in sociology with a specialization in demography from Princeton University, where her work focused on the relationship between immigration status and children’s health and well-being. She earned a bachelor of the arts in sociology/anthropology from Carleton College.