Lamorinda Republican Women Federated October 16 Luncheon Meeting 

Please join us for our October 16 Luncheon Meeting at the Orinda Country Club.  Our October Speaker

Is Dr. Stephen Steinlight, Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) who will speak about illegal immigration.

One of the nation’s most insightful voices on immigration, Dr. Stephen Steinlight is a Senior Policy Analyst at the Center for Immigration Studies (CIS) in Washington, DC who focuses on ascending trends in immigration and immigration policy, America’s changing demography and culture, the politics of immigration, the impact of immigration on the nation’s social cohesion, and the consequences of massive low-skill immigration on America’s most vulnerable groups.

He is also concerned with the nexus between immigration and national security in an age of Jihadist terrorism and significant Muslim migration to Western Europe and the US. He has testified before both the Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives and of the US Senate and has also provided expert testimony before state legislatures and State Freedom of Information Commissions and shared podiums with members of the House and presidential candidates.

Prior to joining CIS, he was Executive Director of the American Anti-Slavery Group, the Boston-based abolitionist organization. For eight years he was National Affairs Director at the American Jewish Committee (AJC) where he oversaw its public policy agenda centered on First Amendment issues, civil rights, immigration, and social policy. He also served as VP of the National Conference of Christians and Jews (NCCJ) for three years.

He convened the first global interreligious dialogues involving dissident Muslim scholars; played a lead role in propagating community-oriented policing; worked on issues affecting Native Americans; and directed the largest survey of intergroup attitudes ever undertaken in America: Taking America’s Pulse: A Survey of Intergroup Attitudes in the US. Prior to joining NCCJ, he was Director of Education at the US Holocaust Memorial Council, the body responsible for developing the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. Dr. Steinlight was co-creator of the Museum’s “Remember the  Children Exhibition.”

A magna cum laude graduate of Columbia College, Columbia University, upon graduation he was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa and received the Columbia College Alumni Merit Award. He was a Woodrow Wilson Fellow, a Kellett Fellow, and a Marshall Scholar at the University of Sussex, England, where he received his M.Phil and PhD.

He was a professor of English and Victorian Studies for 20 years, teaching at the University of Sussex, the State University of New York; the Institút Britannique de Paris; and the School of Graduate Studies, New York University. The recipient of numerous academic honors and visiting professorship, he has been a Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities and is currently an Associate Fellow at Timothy Dwight College, Yale University.

Dr. Steinlight is author of two books: Fractious Nation? Unity and Division in Contemporary American Life; and Children of Abraham: An Introduction to Islam and Islamism co-authored with one of the foremost scholar/opponents of Islamism, the late Khalid Durán.  Dr. Steinlight lives in New York City.

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