Leslie A Martino-Velez
Assistant Professor
Ethnic and Race Studies
EMAIL: lmartinovelez@bmcc.cuny.edu
Office: S-623G
Office Hours:
Phone: +1 (212) 220-8352
Leslie A. Martino-Velez is the Associate Director of the CUNY Institute of Mexican Studies and is an instructor in the Latin American and Puerto Rican Studies department at Lehman College. Her research surrounds issues relating to immigration, education, race/ethnicity and language in the United States as well as in Latin America.
Prior to receiving a Master’s degree in Anthropology and Comparative and International Education at Teachers College, Columbia University and starting her PhD in Sociology at the Graduate Center, Leslie was a classroom teacher and teacher trainer for twelve years in schools in Los Angeles, New York and in Mexico.
Apart from her current research on indigenous Mexican migration, she worked on a remittances project, a Head Start longitudinal study at the National Center for Children and Families at Columbia University and was a research fellow at the Welte Institute in Oaxaca, Mexico.
