Dr. Sara Pavan is currently a Killam Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Department of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. She received her PhD in political studies from Queen's University at Kingston in 2017. Dr. Pavan's research interests include immigrants' political participation, immigrants' personal networks, comparative immigrant integration, and immigrant civil society. Her research has been supported by the Pierre E. Trudeau Foundation, the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council, and the Ontario Confederation of University Faculty Associations, among others. She has also been a fellow of the Centre for the Study of Democracy and Diversity at Queen's University, a visiting student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Toronto, and a visiting student in Canadian Studies at the University of California, Berkeley. In addition to being a member of the Diversity Scholars Network, she is also part of the Young Policy Network on Migration coordinated by the Swiss Forum for Migration Studies.