Domenic Vitiello is an urban historian and planner whose research, teaching, and practice focus on migrant communities and urban agriculture. His book, The Sanctuary City (2022), won the Urban History Association's Kenneth Jackson Award for Best Book in North American History (2023). Since 2010, he has worked with the Asian American Legal Defense and Education Fund and other partners on the preservation of Chinatowns in North America. Since 2019, much of his work is with migrant-led community associations in Western Sicily, in partnership with the Association of Diasporas for Peace and the city of Palermo's migrants' city council.