Dr. Cecilia Menjívar and Bishop Mark Seitz introduce themselves and the conversation, then Menjívar traces her academic path back to her dissertation research on Salvadoran migration — why the U.S. classified refugees fleeing a U.S.-backed civil war as mere "economic migrants." Covers the country's extreme wealth inequality, the assassination of Óscar Romero, and the martyrdom of priests and nuns who spoke out, setting up migration as a response to violence and structural injustice rather than simple opportunity-seeking.