Tamar Jacoby

president, CEO, Immigration Works USA

Tamar Jacoby is president and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA, a national federation of employers working to advance better immigration law. A nationally known journalist and author, she is a leading center-right advocate for immigration reform. Her articles have appeared in *The New York Times*, *The Wall Street Journal*, *The Washington Post*, *The Weekly Standard* and *Foreign Affairs*, among other publications. She is a regular guest on national television and radio. She is author of *Someone Else’s House: America’s Unfinished Struggle for Integration*, and editor of *Reinventing the Melting Pot: The New Immigrants and What It Means To Be American*, a collection of essays about immigrant integration. From 1989 to 2007, she was a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. Before that, she was a senior writer and justice editor for *Newsweek*. From 1981 to 1987, she was the deputy editor of *The New York Times* op-ed page.