America’s scientific preeminence is built on its ability to attract, retain, and empower global talent
Natalia Dashan
Natalia Dashan is a visiting scholar at FREOPP, where her writing focuses on immigration policy and reform. She holds a B.S. in Psychology from Yale University, having conducted research at the Center for Emotional Intelligence. Natalia continues to apply her psychology-and-interpersonal-dynamics-informed lens to questions in philosophy, government, and American politics. Her essay “The Real Problem at Yale is Not Free Speech” was one of the first pieces to shed light on the underlying processes driving political division during the years 2015–2019. Recently, she has been working with the community at Metagov to increase the visibility of digital governance experiments, and applying her experience from working at a suicide hotline to develop and teach a novel conflict coaching framework.
Natalia Dashan
U.S. attitudes on immigration have remained solidly positive over the long term
Complex laws keep these new Americans from fully contributing to the workforce
A pathway forward
Our current system provides several underutilized pathways for extraordinary individuals to live and work in the United States
High-skill immigrants provide economic and social benefits to the country
Because it takes years and many thousands of dollars to educate and train effective physicians, the time to address this predicted shortage is now