Carlos Ruiz Martinez

Director of Mission Integration and Strategy, Migrant and Immigrant Community Action (MICA) Project

Carlos Ruiz Martinez is the director of client support Services at the MICA Project, a local nonprofit that provides immigration legal services. In this capacity, he leads a team that provides comprehensive case management to immigrant families in the St. Louis region.

Additionally, Mr. Ruiz Martinez is completing his doctoral dissertation in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on the relationship between federal immigration agencies and religious people and institutions in the U.S.-Mexico borderlands.