Catherine Longkumer
Host: Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services
Sponsor: Latham & Watkins LLP
Amira reunited refugee and asylee families in the Tri-State area through direct legal representation, targeted outreach, and community education.
This project was established to address the growing need of U.S. volunteer agencies that assist refugees and asylees (“VOLAGS”) in the Tri-State area who have reported that they have hundreds of eligible clients in need of legal assistance. These family-based applications are critical legal avenues allowing persecuted people to continue to get to safety in the U.S. and join their families.
In the past two years, Amira has:
Now that the Fellowship is complete, Amira plans to work with the International Refugee Assistance Project as a staff attorney where she will continue the work she started as a fellow and continue to represent and provide legal information to refugees, focusing on family reunification. Additionally, Amira is excited to continue directing Eshhad – Center for the Protection of Minorities, a nonprofit she founded in 2013. At Eshhad she will grow the work of her team of volunteers in collecting and documenting violence against religious, cultural, and ethnic minorities in the Middle East.
Mass Denials Upend the Lives of Persecuted Iranian Refugees
US Immigration Is Stuck in the Stone Age—and It’s Putting Lives In Danger
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/style/modern-love-refugee-iraq.html
Host: Legal Aid Society of Metropolitan Family Services
Sponsor: Latham & Watkins LLP
Host: Tahirih Justice Center
Sponsor: BP, The Arnold & Porter Foundation
Host: World Organization for Human Rights USA
Sponsor: Steptoe & Johnson LLP
Host: Tahirih Justice Center
Sponsor: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP