Pedro José Ortega, Ph.D. is Postdoctoral Fellow at the CUNY Dominican Studies Institute at City College of New York (CUNY DSI) and Professor of Political Economy and Scientific Methodology applied to Social Sciences at Universidad Autónoma de Santo Domingo (UASD) and the Global Institute of Higher Studies in Social Sciences of the Dominican Republic. He received his Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Université Paris VIII, a M.A. in Philosophy from Universidad del País Vasco, a M.A. in Scientific Methodology and Epistemology, and a B.A. in Economics from UASD. He organized and directed the Transdisciplinary Congress of the Caribbean (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018). His published work spans from political philosophy, social sciences to history, including his most recent publication Decolonialidad, emancipación y utopías en América Latina y el Caribe (CLACSO, 2023) y Posdesarrollo y políticas de convivialidad en América Latina y el Caribe (forthcoming).

• The Dominican People in the US: From Migrants to Rooted People