Dr. Patricia Campos-Medina | September 2026
Co-author Patricia Campos Medina discuss topics raised in “Legalized Inequalities: Immigration and Race in the Low-wage Workplace” followed by small group discussions.
Dr. Campos-Medina is a researcher, RTE Faculty and labor educator focusing on the intersection of race, immigration status and worker’s rights. She is a Senior Extension Associate Faculty and the Executive Director of the Worker Institute at the School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University where she leads research, policy innovation and training to advance worker justice, collective bargaining rights and the interest of workers in today’s economy and society. She is a political scientist and policy expert on workplace and labor issues, women rights, voting rights, immigrant worker justice and US trade relations. She holds a PhD from Rutgers University and a BS and MPA from Cornell University. She is also a member of the Diverse Solidarity Economies (DISE), a collective of Black and Brown Feminist Scholars focused on research that decolonizes and diversifies the field of political economy and is a Visiting Fellow at the Eagleton Institute of Politics, Rutgers University-New Brunswick.
This program was recorded on September 14, 2026.