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Team

Leadership

Karen Musalo

Director | Bank of America Foundation Chair in International Law

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Blaine Bookey

Legal Director | Visiting Assistant Professor of Law

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Moira Duvernay

Deputy Director

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Christine Lin

Director of Training and Technical Assistance

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Melissa Crow

Director of Litigation

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Kate Jastram

Director of Policy and Advocacy | Sérgio Vieira de Mello Chair of International Refugee Law

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Legal
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Gabriel Arellano

Associate Director of Training and Technical Assistance

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Neela Chakravartula

Associate Director of Litigation

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Omar de la Cruz

Staff Attorney

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Anne Dutton

Senior Counsel

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Kristen Henderson

Legal Program Coordinator

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Laura Malfavón Álvarez

Legal Program Associate

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Anne Peterson

Senior Counsel

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Dulce Rodas

Staff Attorney

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Edith Sangüeza

Senior Staff Attorney

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Tatiana White

Legal Program Associate, Litigation

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Policy and Advocacy

Julie Wands Bourdoiseau

Staff Attorney

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Peter Habib

Equal Justice Works Fellow

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Brianna Krong

Communications and Advocacy Manager

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Felipe Navarro Lux

Associate Director of Policy and Advocacy

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Iryna Rekrut

Legal Fellow

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Gunja Sarkar

Legal Program Associate

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Development, Finance, and Administration

Mari Chandy

Administrative Associate

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Julia Hause

Manager of Individual Giving

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Tereza Kidane

Manager of Institutional Giving

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Affiliates
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Maria E. Andrade

Cooperating Attorney

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Stuart L. Lustig, M.D., M.P.H.

Legal-Medical Advisor

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Christine Natoli

Kazan McClain Partners' Foundation Clinical Adjunct Professor

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Robert Pauw

Cooperating Attorney

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Interns and Law Clerks

Natalie Lerner

Law Clerk

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Gabriel Siwady

Law Clerk

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Advisory Board

Denise Abrams

Partner, Kazan, McClain, Lyons, Greenwood & Harley PLC

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Simona Agnolucci

Partner, Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP

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Richard Boswell

Professor, UC Law San Francisco

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Tanya Broder

Senior Staff Attorney, National Immigration Law Center

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Sara Campos

Senior Program Officer, Grove Foundation

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Biniam Ghebremichael

DOJ Accredited Representative, AAN

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Minette Kwok

Partner, Minami Tamaki LLP

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Joey Natoli

Managing Director, Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC

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George Rehm

Attorney and Investor

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Lilli Rey

Co-Founder, Bay Area Border Relief

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Héctor Ruiz

Senior Program Associate, Acacia Center for Justice

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Sandra Thompson

Attorney

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