The Untold Story of Immigrant Detention in Minnesota and What You Can Do

Anne Applebaum | Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, Pro Bono Director
Anne Applebaum is the Pro Bono Director at the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. She has been in that role for eight years, overseeing ILCM’s volunteer attorney programming and working with clients on a range of immigration law matters.

Colleen Beebe Purisaca | Volunteer Lawyers Network, Manager/Attorney Immigrant Legal Services Program
Colleen Beebe Purisaca is the Manager/Attorney, Immigrant Legal Services Program at the Volunteer Lawyers Network. She has worked on immigration matters for over 34 years as a volunteer, accredited representative and lawyer through several legal aid and human rights organizations.

Sarah Brenes | Advocates for Human Rights, Director, Refugee and Immigrant Program
Sara Brenes is the Director of the Refugee and Immigrant Program, at the Advocates for Human Rights. Sara has worked in the area of immigration law and human rights for over 10 years. In her role at Advocates, she represents refugees seeking asylum, detainees, and people with various immigration issues. She leads efforts to recruit, train, and support volunteers attorneys who represented represent refugees and immigrants.

Alison Olson Cox | MMLA, Managing Attorney
Alison Olson Cox is the Managing Attorney for the Immigration Law Project at Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid. She has been with MMLA for over eleven years and has handled a wide variety of immigration matters including complex naturalization cases, court representation, and immigration benefits for survivors of domestic violence.

Siv Dobrovolny | Standpoint, Youth Labor Trafficking Attorney
Siv Dobrovolny is currently the Youth Labor Trafficking Project Attorney at Standpoint. She started representing trafficking clients in 2006 and in her current role she provides both direct representation and manages a pool of pro bono attorneys.

Steve Kraemer | Conversations with Friends, Director
Steve Kraemer was a member of the first visit team of Conversations with Friends (CWF) in March 2011 and became Director in 2016. In addition to visits at the Freeborn and Carver County jails, other CWF programs include　pen pals, attendance at immigration hearings and safe release from ICE.

Michelle Rivero | City of Minneapolis Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs, Director
Michelle Rivero is the Director of the Office of Immigrant and Refugee Affairs (OIRA) for the City of Minneapolis, an office within the Department of Neighborhood and Community Relations which was established in 2018 with the mission of assisting the City of Minneapolis to develop strategies and programs to welcome, support, inform, integrate and defend our immigrant and refugee communities. More information about OIRA can be found here: http://www.minneapolismn.gov/ncr/oira/index.htm

CLE Credits:

2.0 Standard CLE Credits approved | Event Code: 278754

Cost:

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Registration deadline: October 16, 2019

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