Margot Moinester is a Ph.D. candidate in Sociology at Harvard University, where she is a Doctoral Fellow in the Multidisciplinary Program in Inequality and Social Policy and a Graduate Student Associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. After graduating from Brandeis University with a BA in Health: Science, Society and Policy, Margot led a regional assessment of access to healthcare in Northeast Montana as an AmeriCorps VISTA volunteer and conducted research with the Women's Interagency HIV Study in Chicago. Her current research interests include immigration enforcement and policy, health inequalities, and crime and punishment.