Chaumtoli HuqDovie Yoana King is a public interest attorney with two decades of experience assisting low-income immigrants, women and children. She currently works at Harvard Law School. Dovie is also the Founder and Director of SOAR for Justice (www...
Below are brief remarks I gave at a conference hosted by CUNY Law Review on Transformative Immigrant Defense in March 2017. I post here with some minor edits to offer some reflections on immigrant organizing and the need to support leadership from...
By Val Merlina, J.D. | University of Pittsburgh School of Law ’17 101 years ago, James Connolly was executed for taking part in the 1916 Easter Rising in Dublin, Ireland. An armed rebellion seeking to decolonize Ireland, the Rising helped...
Kalpana Krishnamurthy is the Senior Policy Director at Forward Together. There, she develops and implements Forward Together’s policy shift and civic engagement strategies. She currently serves on the Advisory Board for the Philanthropic...
By Amanda Macal, Patricia Veliz Macal, & Carla Osorio Veliz We are three generations of immigrant women from Guatemala. We also have a family bond, as we are grandmother, mother, and daughter working together with the same mission and vision...
[dropcap]I[/dropcap]t is a New Year and for many of us 2016 was somewhat of an unpleasant year. Instead of seeing a decrease in police violence against communities of color we have seen a continuation. We have lived through a rancorous political...
Ernie Collette is a Government Benefits and Immigration Attorney at MFY Legal Services. Dilley is half-way between San Antonio and the border at Laredo, Texas. Transportation for detainees only goes so far as transportation into and out of the...
Ernie Collette is a Government Benefits and Immigration Attorney at MFY Legal Services Feature Image Photo Credit: Claire R. Thomas Wednesday, December 14, 2016. I met with a woman and her young daughter who had a signed order in a request to extend...
Emma Leheny serves as Senior Counsel for the National Education Association, the nation’s largest professional employee organization. For two decades, Leheny has represented unions, low-wage workers, and recipients of government benefits. Leheny...
By Carlos A. Valenzuela, an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow with the Safe Passage Project; Claire R. Thomas is an attorney with the Safe Passage Project and teaches at New York Law School; Ernie Collette is a Government Benefits and Immigration...
