Vanessa Delgado is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. Broadly, her work explores the incorporation pathways of low-income Latino/a immigrant families. She employs qualitative methods to examine how immigration laws exacerbate social and economic inequality among low-income Latino/a immigrants and their children. Her research has been published in Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Forum, Sociology Compass, Socius, Social Sciences, Law & Policy, Journal of Latinos and Education, and featured in public outlets such as Latino Rebels, CalMatters, California Health Report, and Northwest News Network. She holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine and was formally a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University.