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Abigail Cruz
Meet the Fellow

Abigail Cruz is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow supporting local community-led organizing campaigns fighting to improve working conductions, redress wage theft and combat retaliation among farmworkers in California's Central Coast region. 

ACLU Immigrants' Rights Project

The ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project is dedicated to expanding and enforcing the civil liberties and civil rights of immigrants and to combating public and private discrimination against them.

Al Otro Lado

Al Otro Lado provides legal and humanitarian support to migrants on both sides of the U.S.-Mexico border.

Alessandra Stevens
Meet the Fellow

Alessandra Stevens is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow combatting the labor abuse to deportation pipeline with Sur Legal Collaborative.

Alexis Bay
Meet the Fellow

Alexis Bay is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project using community lawyering to address issues of mistreatment of immigrants in detention.

Amy Tamayo
Meet the Fellow

Amy Tamayo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante working with migrant worker women to challenge discrimination and harassment women face in U.S. employment.

Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project

ASAP works alongside our members — thousands of asylum seekers — to make this vision a reality. Its model has three components: community support, emergency legal aid, and nationwide systemic reform.

Carolyn O'Connor
Meet the Fellow

Carolyn O'Connor is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas Civil Rights Project supporting communities impacted by the border wall and representing asylum seekers.

Chelsea Gabriela Tejada
Meet the Fellow

Chelsea Gabriela Tejada is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Reproductive Freedom Project working to protect the rights of noncitizen immigrants in government custody.

Chris Opila
Meet the Fellow

Chris Opila is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow challenging USCIS resettlement adjudication policies with the International Refugee Assistance Project.

Christopher Owens
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Christopher Owens is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado's Border Rights Project using strategic litigation to secure the individual right to apply for asylum.

David Chen
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David Chen is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project designing and executing a nationwide strategy to enforce state law limitations on the authority of local law enforcement to detain immigrants in cooperation with ICE.

Elizabeth Lewis
Meet the Fellow

Elizabeth Lewis is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Beyond Legal Aid working with community-based organizations to support LGBTQI+ immigrants.

Ginger Cline
Meet the Fellow

Ginger Cline is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Al Otro Lado using impact litigation to defend the rights of asylum-seeking individuals.

Hayden Rodarte
Meet the Fellow

Hayden Rodarte is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyer's Committee for Civil Rights building a unique accountability model for addressing civil and human rights abuses in immigration detention at the border.

Henna Kaur Kaushal
Meet the Fellow

Henna is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante in Mexico City, where Henna works to expose the exploitation of TN visa workers by US-based corporations and offer meaningful access to justice for TN workers

Immigrant Defense Project

IDP fights to end the current era of unprecedented mass criminalization, detention and deportation through a multipronged strategy including advocacy, litigation, legal advice and training, community defense, grassroots alliances, and strategic communications.

Innovation Law Lab

Innovation Law Lab harnesses the power of technology, law, and activism to end mass incarceration in secret jails.

John Giammatteo
Meet the Fellow

John Giammatteo is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Lutheran Social Services of New York's Immigration Legal Program coordinating the Second Circuit Asylum Monitoring Project.

Joseph Meyers
Meet the Fellow

Joseph Meyers is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the National Lawyers Guild's National Immigration Project challenging unconstitutional police practices at the border.

Joseph Niver
Meet the Fellow

Joseph Niver is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow working to address systemic employment violations in the logistics industry with Make the Road New Jersey.

Julie Pittman
Meet the Fellow

Julie Pittman is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante working with low-wage migrant workers to hold their employers accountable.

Justice Action Center

Justice Action Center is a new nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting for greater justice for immigrant communities by combining litigation and storytelling.

Kathleen Rivas
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Kathleen Rivas is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Public Counsel's Immigrants' Rights Project combatting notario fraud in Los Angeles' immigrant community.

Kelly Miller
Meet the Fellow

Kellly Miller is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Advancing Justice providing legal services to detained immigrants and developing new strategies to serve their non-legal needs.

Kyle Barron
Meet the Fellow

Kyle Barron is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Brooklyn Defender Services working for the immediate release of detained noncitizens facing deportation and developing rapid response models.

Lauren Michel Wilfong
Meet the Fellow

Lauren Michel Wilfong is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Justice Action Center working with detained people to challenge the legality of their immigration detention by fostering a rapid response habeas network, and creating a digital hub to support habeas

Lee Ann Felder-Heim
Meet the Fellow

Lee Ann Felder Heim is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area working to stop private, for-profit prison corporations from harming detained immigrants in their custody, hold them accountable

Ming Tanigawa-Lau
Meet the Fellow

Ming Tanigawa-Lau is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Asylum Seekers Advocacy Project building the first asylum-seeker-led systemic reform program in the United States.

Molly Linhorst
Meet the Fellow

Molly Linhorst is a 2019-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at ACLU of New Jersey challenging egregious immigration conditions at county-run facilities.

Mudassar Toppa
Meet the Fellow

Mudassar Toppa is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow at the Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) Project providing legal representation to U.S. Muslims and other constituencies targeted by government agencies under the guise of "national security" and "counterterrorism."

Mustafa (Isaac) Filat
Meet the Fellow

Mustafa Isaac Filat is a 2022-2023 Justice Catalyst Fellow protecting the data privacy of California's immigrant communities with Public Counsel.

National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers' Guild

The National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild (NIPNLG) is a national non-profit organization that provides technical assistance and support to community-based immigrant organizations, legal practitioners, and all advocates seeking and working to advance the rights of noncitizens.

Patrick Baker
Meet the Fellow

Patrick Baker is a 2018-2019 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Immigrant Defense Project challenging abusive immigration enforcement practices in New York state.

Priya Sreenivasan
Meet the Fellow

Priya Sreenivasan is a 2020-2021 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Project South using law and advocacy to challenge immigrant incarceration.

Rosa Lee Bichell
Meet the Fellow

Rosa Lee Bichell is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Disability Rights Advocates identifying and supporting people with disabilities in immigration detention.

Santa Fe Dreamers Project

Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal services to immigrants to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention.

Sarah Ortlip-Sommers
Meet the Fellow

Sarah Ortlip-Sommers is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow working at Public Justice to aid immigrants harmed in for-profit detention centers, and hold accountable the corporations that profit from detaining immigrants, by expanding tort and statutory remedies through strategic litigation and

Stacy Ham
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Stacy Ham is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Legal Aid Justice Center seeking a remedy through impact litigation for immigrant children who were recently released from detention facilities.

Stephanie Alvarez-Jones
Meet the Fellow

Stephanie Alvarez-Jones is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid documenting and challenging conditions for immigrant mothers and children while coordinating a rapid-response team against abrupt immigration policy changes.

Sur Legal Collaborative

Sur Legal Collaborative seeks to democratize legal knowledge so that immigrant and working-class communities are empowered with the resources necessary to advocate for their rights and continue to lead us in the struggle for a more just society.

Tess Hellgren
Meet the Fellow

Tess Hellgren is a 2019-2020 Justice Catalyst Fellow at Innovation Law Lab using impact litigation and legal resources to enhance innovative models of massive collaborative representation in immigration court.

Trillium Chang
Meet the Fellow

Trillium Chang is a 2021-2022 Justice Catalyst Fellow with Innovation Law Lab working to ensure that detained asylum seekers in the Deep South have legal representation by leveraging data analysis to inform efforts and by activating pro bono counsel nationwide.

Yulie Landan
Meet the Fellow

Yulie Landan is a 2023-2024 Justice Catalyst Fellow work at National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild to conduct systemic litigation on behalf of immigrants detained in Louisiana and Virginia to shut down detention centers and provide direct representation