The President of the Association for the Study of the Cuban Economy sits down for an interview today in the run up to the first ASCE Virtual Conference 13-15 August 2020. Silvia Pedraza is Professor of Sociology and American Culture at the University of Michigan. Her research interests include the sociology of immigration, race and Ethnicity in the U.S., as well as the sociology of Cuba's revolution and exodus. She speaks a little about her experiences growing up that led from her childhood immigration experiences to sociology at the University of Michigan and how that shaped her research. She speaks then to the sociology of Cuban migration, focusing on the five distinct ways of migration out of Cuba, from the group who left at the time of the revolution (whom she calls "those who wait") to those who have been leaving now ("those who walk" literally describing the experiences of Cuban migrants walking from South America to the U.S. border. Lastly, she talks about the parallels and divergences between the experiences of Cuba and of Venezuela and what sociological research has begun to reveal). It was a truly fascinating discussion.