Events Calendar

Immigration attorney Rachel Tiven will speak from 11:45 a.m.-12:45 p.m. on “Personal Pride and Overcoming Prejudice: What Can the LGBT and Immigrant Rights Movements Teach Each Other?” From 12:45-1:45 p.m., she’ll meet more informally with students to discuss about her life in the law. Attend one or both sessions. Lunch served at 12:45.

Rachel B. Tiven is the Executive Director of Immigrant Justice Corps, the nation’s first fellowship program dedicated to meeting the need for high-quality legal assistance for immigrants seeking citizenship and fighting deportation. From 2005-2013, Ms. Tiven led Immigration Equality, a national non-profit organization fighting for equal rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and HIV-positive immigrants and asylum seekers. Under her leadership, Immigration Equality built a $17 million pro bono program, quintupled client services to aid more than 5,000 people annually, and succeeded in changing the U.S. immigration system for LGBT and HIV-positive people. Ms. Tiven is a graduate of Harvard-Radcliffe College and Columbia Law School. Before becoming a lawyer she worked at Bloomberg Business News and Lambda Legal. As a lawyer, she represented immigrant clients at the Legal Aid Society of New York and served as a law clerk to the Honorable Barbara S. Jones in the Southern District of New York. She is a recipient of Columbia’s Public Interest Law Foundation award, and was named one of the Advocate magazine’s 40 under 40.

For more information about Ms. Tiven, see http://justicecorps.org/our-team/

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