Elizabeth Aranda is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Immigrant Well-Being Research Center in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of South Florida. Her research addresses migrants' emotional well-being and how they adapt to challenges posed by racial and ethnic inequalities, legal status, and other challenges associated with adaptation in a new place. She has published four edited volumes and two books, Emotional Bridges to Puerto Rico: Migration, Return Migration, and the Struggles of Incorporation (2006), and with Hughes and Sabogal, she is lead author of the book, Making a Life in Multiethnic Miami: Immigration and the Rise of a Global City (2014). Dr. Aranda has published approximately 60 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters, op-eds, and essays in journals such as Social Forces, Sociology of Race and Ethnicity, The Sociological Quarterly, Gender & Society, Social Science Research, and Social Problems, among others. She has been awarded nearly $1 million in multiple grants by the National Science Foundation to study a) patterns of transnational living among immigrants in Miami, b) the lives of undocumented young adults in Florida and how they navigate the terrain of immigration policies and inclusion/exclusion, and c) how Puerto Rican post-disaster migrants construct home in new places. She is Co-Founder of the Immigrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative, an initiative that trains and supports the work of scholars who want their research to impact policies to improve immigrant well-being. She has written pieces translating her research for the public in outlets such as CNN, The Conversation, Tampa Bay Times, The Orlando Sentinel, The Miami Herald, and others.