“Every team’s going to win 54 games, every team’s going to lose 54. It’s what you do with the other 54 that counts.”
The stakes are high - and what we do with the in-between moments matters most.
At The Other 54 Strategies, we help organizations, coalitions, and governments respond to today’s most urgent migration and security challenges—while building toward long-term, systemic solutions.
We’re best known for our work in immigration rapid response, mobilizing coalitions, coordinating services, and responding in real time to policy shifts and humanitarian crises. But we don’t stop at the crisis. Behind the scenes, we’ve helped shape national conversations through white papers reframing immigration as a national security priority, toolkits supporting cross-border collaboration between cities, and strategies that bridge values with real-world policy.
We bring two decades of experience in immigration law, crisis coordination, and cross-sector policy design. From advising local governments and advocacy coalitions to guiding national messaging and narrative strategy, our work sits at the intersection of justice, security, and strategy.
Whether you're navigating a migration challenge, designing strategies that connect policy and practice, or communicating complex issues in a way that builds trust and drives action, we help you move from reaction to impact with clarity, integrity, and purpose.
The Other 54 is where the season is won. Let’s make those moves count.
Bio
Camille Mackler is a thought leader, strategist, and legal expert on how global issues intersect with local concerns. With a focus on migration, national security, foreign policy, and human rights, Ms. Mackler has written and spoken extensively on some of the world's most pressing issues.
On the national stage, she has put her words into action by being on the frontline of many migration crises over the last two decades. A few examples include the legal response to the Muslim Travel Ban, working to reunite asylum-seeking parents with their parents during family separation policies, advocating for - and ultimately helping coordinate - the evacuation of Afghan allies after the Taliban takeover, and most recently addressing the increase of newly arrived immigrants to New York City from the US-Mexico border. Throughout this work, Ms. Mackler has emphasized cultivating and strengthening women's leadership and promoting diverse and inclusive efforts that ensure voices in the conversation are representative of those who live with the consequences of policymakers' choices.
Ms. Mackler has also engaged in improving immigrant rights at the local level on a number of different fronts. She helped draft and get introduced the first-in-the-nation state-based right to counsel law for immigrants facing deportation, currently pending in the State legislature. Through her efforts New York City and New York State have increased investments in immigration legal services from a combined $10 million in 2013 to well over $100 million today. More recently she has worked with various stakeholders and partners to push for a robust and meaningful implementation of the LA Declaration of 2022 and co-led a session on this topic at the inaugural Cities Summit of the Americas in April, 2023.
She is the founder and owner of The Other 54 Strategies, a strategy and advisory service that addresses today’s most pressing global challenges and reframes the dialogue to allow for meaningful systems change. She is also the founder and Chief Executive Officer of Immigrant ARC, a non-profit dedicated to improving immigrant New Yorkers' access to counsel and access to justice, and a Visiting Senior Fellow on Immigration with the Truman Center for National Policy. She is a member of the Truman National Security Project, a 2024 Fellow with the 92Y's Women inPower Fellowship, was named a 2024 Trailblazer in Law by City & State magazine, and has won numerous awards and recognitions for her work.
Ms. Mackler is a frequent lecturer on topics of immigration law and policy and has authored numerous reports, OpEds, and articles on federal immigration policy. She has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee, the New York State legislature, and the New York City Council on issues affecting immigrants, and has argued cases before US Federal Courts of Appeals and US Immigration Courts. She is a graduate of Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and New York Law School.