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The 8th National Low-Income Immigrants’ Rights Conference focused on a wide range of issues affecting low-income immigrants, including access to health care and public benefits, workers' rights, immigration enforcement, access to education, and legalization proposals. The mix of basic trainings and more in-depth strategy sessions provided to participants help them gain critical skills and also provide opportunities to develop joint advocacy and organizing plans to improve the lives of low-income immigrants in the long-term.
KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Bryan Stevenson
Widely known as one of the nation’s foremost experts on race, poverty, and the criminal justice system, Bryan Stevenson is perhaps best known for his groundbreaking anti-death penalty work. As executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative in Alabama, Stevenson has taken on capital cases that were considered unwinnable and won landmark decisions to strengthen civil rights for all. Furthermore, Stevenson has challenged all of us to take a better look at the fundamental flaws that exist within our criminal justice system.
He joins us to strengthen yet another bridge as we work toward creating a more equal and just society for all those living in this country, regardless of where they were born, what the color of their skin is, or what their income level may be.
CONFERENCE SPONSORS
Champion Sponsor
Workshop Sponsor
American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
Scholarship Fund Sponsors
21st Century ILGWU Heritage Fund
American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees
Detention Watch Network
Discount Foundation
Ford Foundation
Munger, Tolles & Olsen LLP
Monica Halas
National Immigration Forum
Progreso Financiero
Sara K. Gould and Rick Surpin
Unbound Philanthropy
United Food and Commercial Workers International Union
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 99
CONFERENCE SPEAKERS
Rocio Alejandra Avila, Women's Employment Rights Clinic at Golden Gate University School of Law
Carlos Amador, UCLA Labor Center
Sonal Ambegaokar, National Immigration Law Center
Leslie Annexstein
Fran Ansley, The Immigration and Refugee Rights Coalition
Donald Anthonyson, Families for Freedom
Ana Avendano, AFL-CIO
Christina Baal, New York Immigration Coalition
Edwin Bender, National Institute on Money in State Politics
Rebecca Bernhardt, Texas Criminal Justice Coalition
Josh Bernstein, Service Employees International Union
Kathy Bird, Florida Immigrant Coalition
Jon Blazer, National Immigration Law Center
Jennifer Brand, Department of Labor's Solicitor's Office
Tanya Broder, National Immigration Law Center
Meredith Cabell, Southern Poverty Law Center
Gabriel Camacho, American Friends Service Committee
Loren Campos
Rini Chakroborty, Amnesty International USA
Shiu-Ming Cheer, National Immigration Law Center
Gregory Chen, Esq., American Immigration Lawyers Association
Eunice Cho, National Employment Law Project
Jessica L. Curtis, Community Catalyst
Adela de la Torre, National Immigration Law Center
Michelle Fei, Immigrant Defense Project
Esmeralda Flores, Coalicion Pro Defensa del Migrante
Adela Flores-Brennan, Colorado Center on Law and Policy
Jacinta Gonzales, New Orleans Workers Center for Racial Justice
Shelby Gonzales, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Sarita Gupta, Jobs with Justice
Ben Johnson, American Immigration Council
Hillary Jorgensen, Colorado Progressive Action
Jessica Karp, National Day Laborer Organizing Network
Melissa Keaney, National Immigration Law Center
Angela Kline, Supplemental Nutrtion Assistance Program Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
Jenn Kons, Immigrant Family Resource Center at Illinois Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights
Annie Lai, Yale Law School
Kung Li
David Lopez
Adam Luna, America's Voice
Dani Martinez Moore, North Carolina Justice Center
Felipe Matos, Presente.org
Rachel Micah-Jones, Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc.
Tyler Moran, National Immigration Law Center
John Morton, U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
Laura Moskowitz, Department of Labor
Victor Narro, UCLA Downtown Labor Center
Jennifer Ng'andu, National Council of La Raza
Ellen Nissenbaum, Center on Budget and Policy Priorities
Sookyung Oh, The Commonwealth Institute for Fiscal Analysis
Shuya Ohno, National Immigration Forum
Jodeen Olguin-Tayler, National Domestic Workers Alliance
Gaby Pacheco
Tom Perez, Department of Justice
Lisa J. Pino, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Food and Nutrition Service, USDA
Lorella Praeli, United we DREAM
Nora Preciado, National Immigration Law Center
Kim Propeack, Esq., CASA de Maryland, Inc.
Jenny Rejeske, National Immigration Law Center
JJ Rosenbaum
Carlos Saavedra, United We Dream Network(UWD)
Sara Sadhwani, California Immigrant Policy Center
Gabriel Sandoval, Office for Civil Rights, U.S. Department of Education
John Sandweg, Department of Homeland Security
Roger Schwartz, National Association of Community Health Centers
Paromita Shah, National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild
Silky Shah, Detention Watch Network
Azadeh Shahshahani, American Civil Liberties Union of Georgia
Reshma Shamasunder, California Immigrant Policy Center
Frank Sharry, America's Voice
Rebecca Smith, National Employment Law Project
Saket Soni, New Orleans Workers' Center for Racial Justice
Michael Tan, ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project
Faya Rose Toure Sanders
Fred Tsao
Frederick R. Troncone, Department of Homeland Security
Emily Tulli, National Immigration Law Cener
Karen Tumlin, National Immigration Law Center
Alicia Wilson, La Clinica del Pueblo
Lillie Wolff, Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
Haeyoung Yoon, National Employment Law Project
