Select pieces written by Cecilia Muñoz
Technology companies have demonstrated their potential to generate wealth at city-disrupting scale. Amazon’s HQ2 selection process—and its subsequent withdrawal from its promised expansion to New York—underscored both the appeal of tech-fueled economic development and the backlash against how unequally its benefits tend to accrue.
By Cecilia Muñoz / New America, April 4, 2019
Read MorePresident Trump’s suggestion conveys a grave misunderstanding of what migrants are facing. Democrats need to show that they have a better plan.
By Denis McDonough and Cecilia Muñoz / The New York Times, July 11, 2019
Read MoreWe must get better at including the people who are the point of policymaking in the design and implementation of the laws and policies that affect them. America is the epicenter of global innovation; we are the designers of tools that are ubiquitous, fit in our pockets, and are transforming the way humanity lives and works.
By Cecilia Muñoz / Politico, 2019
Read MoreThe White House and its allies are promoting a misleading immigration term with an ugly history.
By Cecilia Muñoz / Politico, January 26, 2018
Read MoreThank you. And thank you to the Hamilton Project not just for inviting me to be part of the impressive group discussing this important issue, but also for holding a forum attempting to get beyond the rhetoric to examine the character and implications of the problem. Immigration reform is all too often viewed through all kinds of lenses but rarely is it viewed through the most important one, which is a clear-eyed analysis of what’s in the country’s best interest.
By Cecilia Munoz / The Hamilton Project at Brookings, May 12, 2012
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