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Announcing JocelynSolis.org

NEW YORK CITY, N.Y. - October 21, 2005 - Digital Villain Studios, NYC-based design studio and video production boutique, has completed initial development on JocelynSolis.org - a site dedicated to the Jocelyn Solis Fund and Lecture Series at the Graduate Center, City University of New York. This Fund and Lecture Series was created to continue the work of Dr. Jocelyn Solis, Ph.D. in Developmental Psychology, CUNY, and scholar of social development and social justice.

Dr. Solis’ 2002 dissertation, “The (trans)formation of illegality as an identity: A study of the organization of undocumented Mexican immigrants and their children in New York City” defined and created a theoretical analysis of globalization as it affects the development of children and families. This research on the socio-political nature and consequences of undocumented status among the children of Mexican immigrants in New York City created a unique line of inquiry on identity development of young people who walk into the label “illegal” and the attendant unjust negative consequences of that formulation at the same time that they and their parents contribute to the social and economic life of the U.S. This dissertation and publications that followed are foundational in immigration psychology and revolutionary in their implications for practice and policy. When Dr. Solis passed away at age of 30, she was a Post-doctoral Fellow at the University of California, Santa Cruz, on leave from her assistant professorship at Brooklyn College.

The primary mission of the Jocelyn Solis Fund is to organize a Lecture Series at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York in late autumn each year, thus continuing the dissemination and advancement of this research.

For additional information regarding this Fund or to learn about ways to contribute, please visit JocelynSolis.org.

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