Board of Directors
Susan Alva, Chair
Migration Policy and Resource Center
Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA |
Christina Kleiser
Knox County Public Defender's Community Law Office
& University of Tennessee College of Law
Knoxville, TN |
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Maria Andrade
Andrade Law Office
Boise, ID |
Jonathan Moore
Washington Defense Associate
Immigration Project
Seattle, WA |
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Ahilan Arulanantham
ACLU of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA |
Rogelio Nuñez
Proyecto Libertad
Harlingen, TX |
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Maria Baldini-Potermin
Maria Baldini-Potermin & Associates,
PC
Chicago, IL |
Sonia Parras Konrad
ASISTA
Des Moines, IA |
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Andrea Black
Detention Watch Network
Washington, DC 20005 |
Judy
Rabinovitz
ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project
New York, NY |
Robin Bronen
Alaska Immigration Justice Project
Anchorage, AK |
Rebecca Sharpless
University of Miami School of Law
Miami, FL |
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Rex Chen
Catholic Charities of the
Archdiocese
of Newark
Newark, NJ |
Stacy Tolchin
Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale
Los Angeles, CA
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Susana De León
De León & Nestor
Minneapolis, MN |
Marc
Van Der Hout
Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale
San Francisco, CA |
Rosemary Esparza, Vice-Chair
Law Offices of Rosemary J. Esparza
Venice, CA |
Michael Wishnie
Yale Law School
New Haven, CT |
Barbara Hines
Immigration Clinic
University of Texas School of Law
Austin, TX |
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Linton Joaquin
National Immigration Law Center
Los Angeles, CA |
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Senior Legal Staff
Dan Kesselbrenner,
Executive Director
Program Areas: Immigration consequences of criminal
convictions, Deportation/Detention, Post-9/11 issues
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 2
E-mail Dan
Dan Kesselbrenner
is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Project
of the National Lawyers Guild, the
co-author of Immigration Law and
Crimes, a Clinical Visiting Lecturer in Law at Yale Law
School, and a nationally recognized expert on the immigration
consequences of criminal convictions and suppression of evidence in
immigration proceedings. In 1992, he served on the Clinton-Gore
Department of Justice Immigrant Transition Team. He has also received
the American Immigration Lawyers Association’s Jack Wasserman Award,
the National Immigration Project’s Carol King Award, and Central
American Refugee Center’s Achievement Award for his work advancing and
defending immigrants’ rights.
Paromita Shah, Associate Director
Program Areas: Detention & Deportation, Raids Response, Gangs &
Immigration
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 1
E-mail Paromita
Paromita joined our staff in May 2005. Prior to her current
post she was the Detention Project Director of Capital Area
Immigrants’ Rights (CAIR) Coalition in Washington, DC from April 2003
to May 2005. Under this project she conducted monthly legal rights
presentations in regional county jails in Virginia for immigrants
detained by DHS. In addition to providing legal services to those
individuals, Paromita mentored and trained attorneys for direct
representation, assessed and analyzed claims for relief requested by
detainees, coordinated local advocacy efforts, and participated in
liaison meetings with DHS and DOJ. From December 1998 through October
2002, she previously worked as a staff attorney in the Immigration
Unit at Greater Boston Legal Services.
Trina Realmuto, Staff Attorney
Program Areas: Litigation Strategy,
Reinstatement of Removal, Government Accountability
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 8
Email Trina
Prior to joining the Project in November
2009, Trina Realmuto was an attorney consultant to the Legal Action
Center of the American Immigration Counsel. In this role, she
mentored attorneys litigating immigration cases and wrote numerous
amicus briefs and practice advisories on various topics, including
reinstatement of removal, retroactivity, and federal court procedure
and jurisdiction. From 1997 to 2001, Trina worked as an associate at
the law firm of Van Der Hout, Brigagliano & Nightingale in San
Francisco, where she focused on removal defense and federal court
litigation.
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Legal Workers and Administrative Staff
Ellen Kemp, Director of Legal
Advocacy
Program Areas: VAWA/gender violence issues, U nonimmigrant visa
interim relief, HIV/AIDS and immigrants,
seminars and legal education
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 4
E-mail Ellen
Rosa Douglas, Office Manager
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 3
E-mail Rosa
Ana Manigat, Administrative Assistant
Phone: 617-227-9727 ext. 7
E-mail Ana
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Fellows and Interns
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