Daniela Alulema
Director of Programs
Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

Daniela Alulema is director of programs at the Center for Migration Studies (CMS). Ms. Alulema has coordinated research projects on the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program implementation, statelessness, and the impact of deportation on US families and communities. In 2015, she received her Master of Science in the Urban Policy Analysis and Management Program at The New School. She obtained her bachelor’s degree in accounting from Baruch College, City University of New York (CUNY). She currently serves as a board member in the New York State Youth Leadership Council, an undocumented-led organization that seeks to empower youth to create change in their communities. 

Very Reverend Patrick J. Keating, Esq.
General Counsel
Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn

Father Patrick J. Keating currently is the General Counsel, Econome, and Vicar for Financial Administration for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Brooklyn.  In addition, he is also the Deputy CEO of Catholic Charities Brooklyn and Queens, and the CEO of Catholic Migration Services.  

Father Keating was ordained a priest for the Diocese of Brooklyn and has served and assisted in a number of parishes in Brooklyn and Queens with large immigrant communities.  He serves on numerous not-for-profits boards.  

Father Keating holds a Juris Doctor from Brooklyn Law School and is admitted to the New York State Bar.  He has a Bachelor of Business Administration and a Master of Public Administration from Bernard Baruch College.  Lastly, he has a Master of Arts and Master of Divinity from the Seminary of the Immaculate Conception.

Vicky Virgin
Research Consultant
Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

Vicky Virgin is currently a research consultant for the Center for Migration Studies.  She has also worked in the Mayor’s Office for Economic Opportunity as well as Immigrant Affairs in New York City. Her field of expertise is immigration, with particular focus on how to estimate the undocumented immigrant population in NYC. For over 20 years she worked as a Demographic Analyst for NYC’s Department of City Planning. While tenured there she co-authored The Newest New Yorkers as well as analyzed the changing demographics of New York City. Vicky also worked as a statistician for the U.S. Census and former U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service.  Ms. Virgin holds a B.S. in Economics from the University of Utah.

Robert Warren
Senior Visiting Fellow
Center for Migration Studies of New York (CMS)

Robert Warren served as a demographer for 34 years with the United States Census Bureau and the former Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS). Mr. Warren served as Director of the INS’s Statistics Division from 1986 to 1995. One of his accomplishments at INS was to project accurate ranges of the number of unauthorized immigrants that would apply in each state under the Immigration Reform and Control Act of 1986 (IRCA). During his service, he also worked for three years with the staff of the Panel on Immigration Statistics of the National Academy of Sciences, which published the report, “Immigration Statistics: A Story of Neglect” co-edited with Daniel B. Levine and Kenneth Hill (National Academy Press, 1985). Mr. Warren retired from INS in January 2002.

Mr. Warren released “Unauthorized Immigration to the United States: Annual Estimates and Components of Change, by State, 1990 to 2010,” with John Robert Warren in the International Migration Review, Vol. 47, No. 2, Summer 2013.  His other signature publications include: “Annual Estimates of the Unauthorized Immigrant Population Residing in the United States, by State: 1990 to 2000,” (Department of Homeland Security, 2003); “Estimates of the Undocumented Immigrant Population Residing in the United States: October 1996,” (INS, 1997); “Determinants of Unauthorized Migration to the United States,” with Linda S. Peterson (Center for International Research (CIR), US Bureau of the Census, 1990); and “A Count of the Uncountable: Estimates of Undocumented Aliens Counted in the 1980 United States Census,” with Jeffrey S. Passel, Demography, Vol. 24, No. 3, August 1987.

Mr. Warren has testified before Congress concerning the estimation of undocumented immigration and served as an expert witness for the Department of Justice on the issue of educating undocumented children. He was the US representative at United Nations meetings on immigration statistics in Geneva in May 1986 and February 1991, and an advisor to the US Commission on Agricultural Workers in 1992.  For three years, Mr. Warren also played professional baseball in the Chicago White Sox organization. He holds a Bachelor of Science and a Master of Science in Education from Indiana State University.