I love that Urban’s role is to provide rigorous and objective research and analysis on issues of fundamental social importance. I am grateful for the opportunity to apply my research experience to help inform current policy debates.
Hamutal Bernstein is a senior fellow in the Tax and Income Supports Division at the Urban Institute, where she leads Urban's program on immigration. Her research focuses on the well-being and inclusion of immigrant and refugee families and workers. She is a mixed-methods researcher, with experience in policy analysis, program monitoring and evaluation, technical assistance, multilingual qualitative and survey data collection, and qualitative and quantitative data analysis. She is a principal investigator on the Annual Survey of Refugees for the US Department of Health and Human Services and leads research on immigrant families' access to safety net supports.
Before joining Urban, Bernstein was a program officer at the German Marshall Fund of the United States, managing public opinion survey research in the United States and Europe. This position followed her work on global and US migration research as a research associate at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University and as a migration consultant to international organizations. Bernstein received her BA in international relations from Brown University and her PhD in government from Georgetown University.
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