Conference on Gender, Families,
and Latino Immigration in Oregon

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Heather McClure

Research Associate, Oregon Social Learning Center

Dr. McClure is a research associate with the Latino Research Team at OSLC and also with the Anthropology Department at the University of Oregon. Since 1996, she has been involved with community-based participatory research projects focused on human rights, health, social networks, and artistic and cultural practices in Guatemala and within Latino communities in the U.S. She researched conditions for sexual minorities and people living with HIV/AIDS in Guatemala, and has provided expert witness testimony for 25 sexual orientation-based asylum cases involving Latin Americans in the U.S. She has published on the topics of Latino health, U.S. immigration law, and social networking and cultural practices within U.S.-based immigrant communities. Her most recent publication is Creative Networks: Mexican Immigrant Assets in Chicago (released November 2006) in collaboration with the Chicago Field Museum and Science of Networks in Communities Research Group (SONIC), University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.