A second-generation Mexican and Colombian immigrant born and raised in Corona, Queens, New York City (NYC), Julio Salas is a Chancellor’s Fellow and Sociology PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley. Centering immigrant families, his research interests and projects lie at the nexus of immigration, emotion, race & ethnicity, social stratification, and health. His current interview-based research project explores how Latinx immigrant families experience(d) grief during and after the COVID-19 pandemic in NYC and how macro-level and meso-level forces shaped said experiences of grief and loss. Before coming to Berkeley, Julio was a researcher at the Income and Benefits Policy Center housed at the Urban Institute, the Figueroa Interdisciplinary Group at Cornell University, and the Affect and Cognition Lab at Cornell University. Julio received an associate’s degree in health sciences from Queensborough Community College and a bachelor’s degree in human development from Cornell University.
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Sociology, UC Berkeley
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