I am delighted to announce that Sophia Isabel Barba has joined Courtside as Co-Editor. In addition to the many achievements described in her bio below, Sophia comes from a family with a lifetime commitment to due process and equal justice under law for migrants. Her father Francisco Barba is an immigration attorney and the principal of the Law Offices of Francisco J. Barba, San Jose, CA. I first met a Sophia when she invited me to be the inaugural speaker at the Tulane Immigration Law Society which she founded.
Here’s Sophia’s bio:
Sophia Barba is a newly minted law graduate native to the Bay Area in California. She attended a small liberal arts college in Portland, Reed College, where she majored in Anthropology and authored a thesis examining the intersection of racial dynamics in the creation of immigration policy in the United States. After graduating from Reed, Sophia spent time working for the Portland Bureau of Transportation, where she helped develop strategies to make access to public services more accessible and inclusive to immigrant and low-income communities. After her time in Portland, Sophia attended Tulane University Law School.
At Tulane, Sophia worked with a bevy of different immigration-related firms and organizations including Catholic Charities, Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, and others. At the advent of a developing immigration law program at Tulane, Sophia founded the Tulane Immigration Law Society, which sought to provide a platform for students and lawyers alike to connect. Sophia graduated from Tulane Law in 2020, after which point she clerked for the Santa Clara County District Attorney’s Office. She recently passed the California Bar Exam and hopes to use her license to support the immigrant’s rights both as an attorney, and as part of the Immigration Courtside family!
Please join me in welcoming Sophia to Courtside!
🇺🇸🗽⚖️😎👍🏼Due Process Forever!
PWS
03-22-21
Congratulations Sophia — and Paul!
(And hello to Sophia’s dad, Francisco Barba!)
Hi Lory!
Thank you! Hope you are doing well. I am excited to be part of great community of people! I will tell my dad you said hello!
Welcome Sophia, and Congrats! I always tell Paul what an important archival role Courtside plays by capturing and commenting on any and all immigration developments. Your contribution to this outstanding resource will surely prove invaluable.
Thank you for the kind words, Jeffrey. I cannot agree more– I am excited to help maintain as well as contribute to this remarkable resource that we all value!
Do you know Stéphanie Barba. She lives in Paris and has become a well known painter. We were classmates in Paris in the 50s and I lost touch. I am an American now (I was Lebanese) and I married an American and she was Stéphanie de Choulot de Chabaud-Latour and married a Barba
I am the Mother-in-Law of Layli Miller-Muro of the Tahirih Justice Center. I would very much like to retrieve my dear friend Stéphanie
Sorry to take the liberty