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As an Emerson Fellow at the New America Foundation, Alexandra Starr will focus on immigration. In particular, she will publish articles and produce radio stories about how our approach to immigration impacts U.S. competitiveness. Her writing about immigration and politics has appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Slate.com, The New Republic, and The American Scholar. She was formerly a political correspondent at Businessweek, where she covered the 2004 presidential election.

Starr has been a fellow at the Center on Law and Security at New York University Law School; a Milena Jesenska fellow in Vienna, Austria; a Japan Society Fellow in Tokyo, Japan; and an Organization of American States fellow in Caracas, Venezuela. She has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, and NPR. Starr began her journalism career as Daniel Schorr's research assistant at National Public Radio. She was an Echols Scholar at the University of Virginia and holds an M.A. from La Universidad Simon Bolivar in Caracas, Venezuela.