Jill H. Wilson
Senior Research Analyst, Metropolitan Policy Program

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Jill H. Wilson, a senior research analyst at the Metropolitan Policy Program, works primarily on the Census Series, including research on U.S. immigration and other demographic trends. Prior to her employment at Brookings, Ms. Wilson was the principal researcher on a Migration Policy Institute project to assist immigrant service and advocacy organizations to make use of demographic data. She also spent five years working for an international human rights organization. She received her M.A. in geography from The George Washington University in Washington, D.C. where she wrote her thesis on African immigration to the United States with a focus on the Washington metropolitan area. Ms. Wilson has a B.A. in sociology from Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois.

Publications:

• Five Things the Census Revealed About America in 2011 
• Immigrants in 2010 Metropolitan America: A Decade of Change
• Immigration and Poverty in America's Suburbs
• The Impact of the Great Recession on Metropolitan Immigration Trends 
• The State of Metropolitian America: On the Front Lines of Demographic Transformation
• Getting Current: Recent Demographic Trends in Metropolitan America
• Immigrants, Politics, and Local Response in Suburban Washington
• From 'There' to 'Here': Refugee Resettlement in Metropolitan America
• Finding Exurbia: America's Fast-Growing Communities at the Metropolitan Fringe
• Polyglot Washington: Language Needs and Abilities in the Nation's Capital
• Tracking Metropolitan America into the 21st Century: A Field Guide to the New Metropolitan and Micropolitan Definitions