Meet Our Fellows
Felicia Escobar Carrillo
Felicia Escobar Carrillo is the Senior Fellow for Immigration. She has spent her career advocating for Latino and immigrant families. Most recently, Felicia was Chief of Staff at the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). Under Felicia’s leadership, USCIS restored its fiscal health, reduced historic backlogs, improved customer experience, and implemented numerous regulatory and policy reforms designed to make the immigration system more accessible to families, businesses, workers, and aspiring new Americans. From 2009-2017, she served at the White House where she advanced President Obama’s immigration agenda, including its efforts to enact bipartisan immigration reform and implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. She has worked in the U.S. Senate on immigration reform and advocated for Texas Latino communities at the state and local levels. Felicia has also advised several philanthropic institutions on their immigration grantmaking strategies.