Timothy Sanders
Host: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Baker Daniels
Katie promoted and facilitated trust between immigrants and law enforcement in the Dayton area in conjunction with existing efforts to successfully integrate immigrants into the community.
Recent increases in immigrant populations and heightened political attention that immigration issues receive have put pressure on cities like Dayton to decide whether they will embrace immigrant communities or isolate them. The Welcome Dayton Plan, an immigrant-friendly city initiative, identifies a mistrusting relationship between law enforcement and immigrant communities as one of the key barriers to immigrant integration. Katie’s project creates an immigrant-friendly law enforcement model for the Dayton Police Department and surrounding jurisdictions. Katie presents know-your-rights trainings to immigrant communities to raise awareness of legal rights and remedies available to victims of crime, workplace exploitation, and racial profiling; Katie also provides direct legal representation on these issues.
During her Fellowship, Katie has:
Now that the Fellowship is complete, Katie plans to continue representing victims of crime in immigration and employment matters as a Staff Attorney at Advocates for Basic Legal Equality.
Host: Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota
Sponsor: 3M Company, Faegre Baker Daniels
Host: Pangea Legal Services
Sponsor: Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company, The City of San Jose
Host: OneJustice
Sponsor: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP, PayPal
Host: New York City Anti-Violence Project
Sponsor: Bloomberg Philanthropies, Proskauer Rose LLP