About Me

For the last fifteen years I have worked in the immigrant rights movement, fighting for a system that is fair to all and that recognizes the inherent dignity of every human being.

After graduating law school in 2006 I began representing individuals facing seeking asylum in the US, defending them from deportation (including those detained by the US government), or helping them become US Citizens and bring their families over. I worked for a small firm at first, as the lead attorney litigating most cases in front of immigration courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals, and Federal courts of appeals.

In 2013, I switched from direct representation to join an advocacy and policy organization - the New York Immigration Coalition.  Since then, I have been working to support non-profit immigration lawyers and to make sure that immigrants are connected to high quality legal representation and have a fair chance at a life in the United States. In June, 2020, I took this one step further by launching the Immigrant Advocates Response Collaborative (Immigrant ARC), which I had been running as a volunteer effort at the NYIC since 2017.

Through this time I have witnessed first hand some of the most dramatic effects of our immigration system. I have spent more time than I would ever have though in prisons - from county jails to private prisons to centers where they detain mothers with small children. In January, 2017 I had a front row seat to the resistance to Trump's travel bans when I led the legal effort at JFK for 9 days. 

From fighting for individual clients to fighting to support the broader system, one thing remains clear to me: our immigration system does not reflect the notions of fairness and justice Americans take for granted in their every day lives. 

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