🦸🏽‍♀️🦸🏻‍♀️🦸‍♀️ WOMEN’S HISTORY MONTH: “CELEBRATING THE AMAZING WOMEN AT CAIR COALITION!”👍👍👍👍👍

 

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Celebrating the Amazing Women At CAIR Coalition
Celebrating the Amazing Women At CAIR Coalition

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Congrats, endless admiration, and much appreciation to all of these amazing and inspiring leaders! CAIR Coalition was a mainstay of the pro bono program during my tenure at the “Legacy” Arlington Immigration Court. Many outstanding leaders of the legal profession have been associated with CAIR. They have saved countless lives and made American society better and fairer!

As Courtside readers know, I am particularly proud of Adina Appelbaum, Program Director, Immigration Impact Lab.  Here’s what I wrote about her in a past Courtside post:

I’m very proud to say that a member of the “CAIR Team,” Adina Appelbaum, program Director, Immigration Impact Lab, is my former Georgetown ILP student, former Arlington Intern, and a “charter member” of the NDPA! If my memory serves me correctly, she is also a star alum of the CALS Asylum Clinic @ Georgetown Law. No wonder Adina made the Forbes “30 Under 30” list of young Americans leaders! She and others like her in the NDPA are ready to go in and start cleaning  up and improving EOIR right now! Judge Garland take note!

https://immigrationcourtside.com/2021/03/06/%f0%9f%8f%b4%e2%80%8d%e2%98%a0%ef%b8%8fbia-continues-to-spew-forth-errors-in-life-or-death-%e2%98%a0%ef%b8%8f-asyum-cases-says-4th-cir-three-in-one-improperly-d/

If only Garland had followed the advice of many of us to recruit amazingly talented expert leaders like Adina to reform and institutionalize due process at EOIR, the immigration “debate” would be completely different today!

🇺🇸 Due Process Forever!

PWS

03-29-24

⚖️🗽🌟👏 🦸🏻‍♀️🎖️CONGRATS TO NDPA SUPERSTAR CAMILLE J. MACKLER ON BEING NAMED A 92ND STREET Y WOMEN inPOWER FELLOW! 

Camille J. Mackler
Camille J. Mackler
Executive Director
Immigrant ARC
PHOTO: JustSecurity

Camille writes on LinkedIn:

I’m beyond excited to be able to finally share that I was selected to be part of this year’s 92nd Street Y Women inPower fellowship!

I’m looking forward to a year of learning, connecting, mentorship (something that so many women of my generation feel they missed out on) and growing within this incredible network of current and past fellows.

🌟 Exciting Announcement: Introducing our 2024 Women inPower Fellows! 🌟

Thrilled to share the news that we are welcoming a new cohort of dynamic and accomplished individuals to our Women inPower Fellowship program this week. 

These extraordinary women embody resilience, leadership, and a commitment to driving positive change in their respective fields. Join us in extending a warm welcome to our 2024 Fellows! 🎉

See full cohort here:https://lnkd.in/ednfEiU9 and press release below

#WomenLeaders #WiP2024 #Welcome #Empowerment

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Congrats, Camille! You show what true courage, inspiration, and leadership is all about at a time when our nation needs you and other NDPA leaders to fight for human rights, the rule of law, and humane values!

🇺🇸Due Process Forever!

PWS

02-04-23

🦸🏽‍♀️🙋🏽‍♀️👏 CONGRATS TO NDPA SUPERSTAR 🌟PAULINA VERA ON BECOMING PRESIDENT OF THE HISPANIC BAR ASSOCIATION OF DC!

Paulina Vera
Paulina Vera
President, Hispanic Bar Association of DC
PHOTO: Linkedin

As I have mentioned before, I’m proud that Paulina is an alum of the Legacy Arlington Immigration Court Internship Program and a “charter member” of the NDPA!

For those of you who don’t know her, here’s Paulina’s “official bio” from the GW Law website:

Paulina Vera

Professorial Lecturer in Law

Adjunct

Contact:

Email: Paulina Vera

2000 H Street, NW

Washington DC 20052

Paulina Vera supervises GW Law Immigration Clinic students and provides legal representation to asylum-seekers and respondents facing deportation in Immigration Court. She is a Professorial Lecturer In Law and has taught Immigration Law I.

Ms. Vera previously served as the only Immigration Staff Attorney at the Maryland-based non-profit, CASA.

She is a double GW alumna. In 2015, Ms. Vera graduated from the George Washington University Law School. During law school, she was a student-attorney at the Immigration Clinic. In 2012, she graduated from GW with a Bachelor in Arts in International Affairs, concentrating on Latin American Studies and International Politics and a minor in Spanish Language and Literature.

Ms. Vera is involved in a number of professional organizations. She is the President-Elect of the Hispanic Bar Association of DC (HBA-DC), a scholar for the American Bar Association (ABA) YLD Leadership Academy, and a member of the inaugural Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) National Task Force on Hispanic Law Professors and Deans. She also serves as the Public Relations Director for the GW Latino Law Alumni Association (LLAA).

Ms. Vera has been recognized locally and nationally; she is the recipient of the GW Latinx Excellence Awards, Alma Award (2019), DC Courts Community Agency CORO Award (2019), Hispanic Bar Association of DC (HBA-DC) Rising Star Award (2019), and the Hispanic National Bar Association (HNBA) Top Lawyers Under 40 Award (2021).

Her passion project is managing an online community called Hermanas In The Law, where she features Latinas thinking about law school, Latina law students, and Latina lawyers. Ms. Vera is originally from Tucson, AZ and is the proud daughter of two immigrants.”

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You can also learn more about Paulina and her many accomplishments by clicking on her name in the “Courtside” sidebar!

Paulina is just the brilliant, honest, values-driven, charismatic leader that America needs for a better future!

🇺🇸 Due Process Forever!

PWS

01-14-24

HERE’S WHAT REAL CHRIST-INSPIRED LEADERSHIP LOOKS LIKE! — The Youth Of Beverley Hills Community United Methodist Church, Alexandria, VA Speak Up For Love, Tolerance, & Accepting & Serving The Needs Of The Least Among Us!

BHCUMC Mission Statement:

Our mission is to welcome all people as they are, to grow together in Christian faith and fellowship, and to share Christ-like love in word and deed.

The youth of Beverley Hills Community United Methodist Church are committed to being a Reconciling Youth Group in

– Staying open-armed, open-minded, and open-hearted to all people

– Supporting the marginalized and using privilege to lift others up

– Becoming more Christ-like through our words and actions

Tolerance is not enough; actively advocating for oppressed communities must be part of what we do. We believe in a God who is more than tolerant, whose powerful love we seek to embody and spread, as good people and good neighbors. We accept all people as they are,trans or cis, straight or not, Christian or other, regardless of ethnic or socio-economic background. There should be no norm in society nor in the church. We will strive to learn more  everyday and to become better, to become more Christ-like as the world changes around us.

Our mission is to welcome all people as they are; to grow together in Christian faith and  fellowship; to share Christ-like love in word and deed; and to live like this everyday.

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The mission of the youth of BHCUMC, as a Reconciling Youth Group, is to be open towards all people, supporting the marginalized and lifting them up, and becoming more Christ-like through word and deed.

Signed,

The Youth of Beverley Hills Community United Methodist Church

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Congrats to the Youth Group for having the courage to speak up for real moral leadership and self-sacrificing service to humanity.

Compare this with the statements we hear from our so-called “national leaders” every day. The rest of us had better fight hard to bridge the gap and keep democracy and human decency afloat until we can get real societal leaders like these fine young people into the positions where they can lead our failing nation and a troubled world out of our self-created morass into a better future for everyone!

PWS

06-30-18