OP-ED PIECES
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2025). “USF is making campus less safe by signing agreements with ICE.” Tampa Bay Times, April 25.
Aranda, Elizabeth, Elizabeth Vaquera, Liz Ventura, and Emely Matos Pichardo. (2025). “Survey shows immigrants in Florida – even US citizens – are less likely to seek health care after passage of anti-immigrant laws.” The Conversation, February 21. Reprinted in the Tampa Bay Times, March 12, https://www.tampabay.com/opinion/2025/03/12/heres-why-florida-immigrants-are-less-likely-seek-health-care-column/
Aranda, Elizabeth and Liz Ventura Molinda. (2025). “Florida’s new law on immigrants may foreshadow what’s to come nationally.” Newsweek, January 22.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2024). “Could U.S. citizens get caught in Trump’s mass deportation program?” Tampa Bay Times, November 26.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2024). “For Puerto Ricans, insults open wounds of colonialism.” Im/migrant Well-Being Scholar Collaborative.” November 4.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2024). “Here’s the history I won’t be able to teach at USF if Florida’s Stop Woke injunction is lifted.” Tampa Bay Times, June 13.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2023). “Helping an Undocumented Immigrant in Florida Could Soon Be Against the Law.” Tampa Bay Times, March 26.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2022). “La Migración, El Hogar Y El Sentido De Permanencia.” El Nuevo Día, Octubre 23.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2022). “For Puerto Ricans Five Years After Hurricane Maria, No Place Feels Like Home.” TampaBay Times, September 15.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2021). Lessons from Hurricane Maria’s Impact on Puerto Rico, Four Years Later. Tampa Bay Times, September 20, 2021.
Aranda, Elizabeth and Alessandra Rosa. (2019). “Puerto Ricans Unite Against Roselló – and more than a Decade of Cultural Trauma.” The Conversation August 2, 2019. This article was reprinted in various outlets including San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate, Newsify, Latino Rebels, Truthout and International Policy Digest.
Aranda, Elizabeth and Elizabeth Vaquera. (2017). “How DACA Affected the Mental Health of Undocumented Young Adults.” The Conversation. This article was printed in Salon.com, Lee Enterprises newspaper chain, Latino USA, The Rivard Report, The San Francisco Chronicle, Connecticut Post, Houston Chronicle, among others. It was also translated in Spanish and printed on Univision.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2017). “The American Nightmare Dreamers Fear.” August 31. This article was mentioned in the Opinion section of The New York Times.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2012). “Latino Swing Voters and Higher Ed.” Op-Ed, Tampa Tribune, February 27.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2007). “Poor and Homeless in Miami.” Op-Ed, Miami Herald, February 7.
Aranda, Elizabeth. (2006). “Let poor workers unionize to attain American Dream.” Op-Ed, Miami Herald, April 18.