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Vanessa Delgado is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at Washington State University. Broadly, her work explores the incorporation pathways of low-income Latino/a immigrant families. She employs qualitative methods to examine how immigration laws exacerbate social and economic inequality among low-income Latino/a immigrants and their children. She is a 2024 Frank F. Furstenberg Early Career Scholar at the Council on Contemporary Families.

Her research has been published in Social Problems, Journal of Marriage and Family, Sociological Forum, Sociology Compass, Socius, Social Sciences, Law & Policy, Journal of Latinos and Education, and featured in public outlets such as Latino Rebels, CalMatters, California Health Report, Generations ASA, and Northwest News Network. She is committed to promoting the well-being of immigrant families through evidence-based research, and has written policy briefs for the University of Wisconsin-Madison Center for Research on College-Workforce Transitions, Berkeley Interdisciplinary Migration Initiative, and UCLA Institute for Research on Labor and Employment.

She is an award winning author and has received several national awards for her research on immigrant families from the ASA Family Section, ASA Latino/a Sociology Section, ASA Section on Aging and Life Course, ASA International Migration, and the Society for the Study of Social Problems. She has also received generous funding from WSU ADVANCE, Family Process Institute, National Science Foundation, the Ford Foundation, and the UC Institute for Mexico and the U.S.

She holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of California, Irvine and was formally a Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Sociology at Stony Brook University.