Dina Refki is Clinical Associate Professor and Executive Director of the Center for Women in Government & Civil Society, Rockefeller College of Public Affairs & Policy, University at Albany, State University of New York. Refki's research tackles the impact of gender and its intersections with race, ethnicity, class, and nativity status. Her work focuses on the barriers facing immigrant women and their families, and the structural changes needed, to better respond to their needs. She directs the Immigrant Integration Index, a multiyear effort which measures the inclusion of foreign-born New Yorkers in their communities.