Juan Manuel Pedroza is an Associate Professor of Demography, Migration and Inequality in the Sociology Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. He studies the changing landscape of immigration in the United States. Pedroza has examined the vast inequalities of immigrants’ access to justice and the social safety net. His research examines how and where immigration policies exacerbate these inequalities and leave imprints in our local communities. His research on immigrant families has received support from the Russell Sage Foundation Pipeline Grant, the Emerging Poverty Scholars Fellowship (2020-2021) from the Institute for Research on Poverty (University of Wisconsin-Madison, funded by The JPB Foundation), and fellowships from the Ford Foundation. Pedroza completed a sociology Ph.D. in 2018 from Stanford University, where he was a Fellow at Stanford’s Center for Poverty and Inequality and a Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Comparative Studies in Race and Ethnicity (CCSRE). Before graduate school, he worked as a research associate at the Urban Institute in Washington, DC as a research associate. He received a BA from DePauw University in 2003 (History; Conflict Studies) and an MPA at Indiana University, Bloomington-SPEA in 2006 (policy analysis; economic development).