We are pleased to announce Jennifer Nazareno, Ph.D. is now an assistant professor with a dual appointment with the Jonathan M. Nelson Center for Entrepreneurship and the School of Public Health. She was previously an AHRQ/NRSA and Presidential Diversity Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University. Professor Nazareno’s specialty areas include the structural and social determinants of health as well as the political economy and the organization of care that shape the public-private framework of U.S. health and long-term care systems. Her work specifically examines the role of women’s migration, labor and entrepreneurship in this space.
While at the Center, Jennifer recently published a review article, Global Dynamics of Immigrant Entrepreneurship in the International Journal of Entrepreneurial Behavior and Research (IJEBR) where she and her colleagues examined the remarkable shifts in immigrant entrepreneurship, from local, labor-intensive, service-oriented enterprises to global, knowledge-intensive, and professional services. For example, some of the largest U.S. venture capital-backed public high technology companies were started by immigrants, such as Intel, Solectron, Sanmina-SCI, Sun Microsystems, eBay, Yahoo! and Google. Jennifer and her colleagues also observed the emergence of new immigrant entrepreneurs among national origin groups that historically had low rates of self-employment, such as Mexicans and Filipinos, and among the newest of the more recent immigrant groups, such as Vietnamese, Cambodians, Bolivians, Ethiopians and Eritreans. This coming spring, Dr. Nazareno will be teaching a new course that traces the U.S. history of Italian, Jewish and German immigrant entrepreneurs starting from the 18th century to today’s emerging immigrant entrepreneurial groups in various industries.
Learn more about Dr. Nazareno here.