Join
the Digital Library Federation’s interest group on Government Records Transparency + Accountability for a webinar on
Federal Records Transparency and Immigrant Justice, featuring presentations by lawyers and researchers from the ACLU and the American Immigration Council.
Panelists
will provide an overview of FOIA and records transparency in the context of immigrant justice work; discuss how advocacy, research, and legal challenges to unlawful agency practices are informed by FOIA work; and touch on the particular challenges and rewards
of pursuing transparency work in the Trump era.
Thursday,
April 12, 1-2:30pm EDT
You
can join the webinar
online here (if you're new to Zoom, you may need to quickly download the software) and/or by telephone:
+1 646 876 9923, +1 669 900 6833, or +1 408 740 3766 Meeting ID: 572 146 2056.
Presenter
bios:
Emily
Creighton
is the Deputy Legal Director at the American Immigration Council. She oversees the development of the Council’s legal education, non-litigation advocacy, and Freedom of Information Act work, and supports the Immigration Justice Campaign. She previously served
as the Senior Advisor on Humanitarian Programs at the CIS Ombudsman’s Office, and was a Senior Staff Attorney with the Council. As a staff attorney, she engaged in impact litigation, representing amicus curiae in immigration cases in federal court and before
the Board of Immigration Appeals, and authored numerous practice advisories. Emily holds a J.D. from American University Washington College of Law and a B.A. from Boston College.
Victoria
López
is a senior staff attorney at the National Prison Project of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), where she focuses on challenging the expansion of immigration detention and unconstitutional conditions in U.S. detention facilities. Prior to joining NPP,
Victoria was at the ACLU of Arizona serving in various capacities including legal director, policy and advocacy director and staff attorney. She is the author of
In
Their Own Words: Enduring Abuse in Arizona Immigration Detention Centers,
a
report documenting the growth and conditions in the detention system. Victoria began practicing removal defense at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights as an Equal Justice Works fellow, and then as a staff attorney and executive director. She graduated
from the University of Illinois Champaign with a B.A. in English and is a 2001 graduate of the University of Pennsylvania Law School.
Guillermo
Cantor
is the Director of Research at the American Immigration Council, where he leads the Council’s research efforts and manages the research team. He has authored numerous reports and articles on immigration enforcement, immigration policy, and immigrant integration
in the United States and Argentina. Much of his current work focuses on the U.S.-Mexico border, an area in which systematic violation of migrants’ rights by government authorities has become pervasive. He is also an affiliated scholar at ISIM and an Adjunct
Professor of Sociology at Georgetown University. Dr. Cantor holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the University of Maryland, College Park, an M.A. in Economic Sociology from the National University of San Martin, and a B.A. in Political Science from the National
University of Rosario.
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