The Immigration Advocates Network Podcast by Justicia Lab

This podcast conversation focuses on the new streamlined DA process and how labor organizers and other immigration advocates can work together to help working immigrants gain equal access to justice. 

Lisa Smith, Chief Counsel, Family and Gender Violence, New York State Office of Court Administration, explains the pathways in the New York court system for domestic violence cases. 

Join us as we discuss working with Afghan Nationals with Spojmie Nasiri of Spojmie Nasiri Law and Katherine Veldhuizen, Program Coordinator with the Afghan Legal Clinic with The Advocates for Human Rights’ Refugee & Immigrant Program. In this episode we talk about the challenges and issues Afghan clients are facing and ways immigration advocates can help. 

Join us as we talk with Emily DiMatteo and Mia Ives-Rublee from The Center For American Progress about working with clients with disabilities.

In this interview we speak with IRC Deputy Director of Immigration Amber Mull. We discuss how IRC created and sustained remote legal services during the pandemic. 

In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with LGBTQ immigrants and features Amitesh Parikh, Senior Staff Attorney in Immigration Equality’s Pro Bono Program.

In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with interpreters and features Nitin Goyal, Deputy Program Director at CAIR Coalition.

In this episode, we spoke to Dr. Kirsten Rambo, executive director at ASISTA, who gave us background on the origins of VAWA, past reauthorization processes, and insight into this most recent reauthorization from her point of view as an expert and advocate.

This podcast has been manually transcribed for your convenience due to poor audio quality discovered after recording. The transcription is available here. In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with immigrant children and features Andrew Craycroft, a staff attorney at Immigrant...

In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with clients who are dealing with mental health issues, and features Christine Lin, Director of Training and Technical Assistance at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies.

In this podcast, Shala Gafary, new Managing Attorney for Human Rights First’s Project: Afghan Legal Assistance, provides listeners with perspectives and insight gained from working on the front lines of various refugee crises: ranging from the Greek Migrant Crisis to the topical Afghanistan Refugee Crisis.  

In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with clients who are detained and features Colleen Cowgill, Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney for Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network’s Detention Program.

In this podcast, Catherine Seitz of Immigration Institute of the Bay Area walked us through June's BFD policy and what it means for U Visa petitioners.

The Advocates for Human Rights talk about their wide-ranging volunteer-based work and how it has changed during the pandemic. Sign up to volunteer with The Advocates at  https://www.theadvocatesforhumanrights.org/Volunteer .