Specializations: Diaspora Studies, Post-Colonial Studies, Migration Studies, Latin America-Arab World Relations

Jessica F. Chilin-Hernández is a first year student at Georgetown University's Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service where she is pursuing a Master's in Latin American Studies and a Graduate Certificate in Arab Studies. She currently serves as Assistant Director to Georgetown’s Kalmanovitz Initiative for Labor and the Working Poor engaging questions of workers’ rights and the future of the U.S. labor movement. Prior to joining the Kalmanovitz Initiative, she worked for the Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding at Georgetown’s Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service. Jessica is a 2012 graduate from the College of William & Mary. While at W&M, Jess was actively involved in the Latin-American Student Union and Muslim Student Association.

Concentration: Conflict Resolution
Research Area – Substantive: Labor and Migration Studies, Latin America-Arab World Relations, and International Political Economy
Research Area – Geographic: Southern Cone, Arab Middle East