
B1C's 7th Annual Colloquium
The Road to CT: Forced Migration, Integration
and the Power of the Community

Please find below valuable resources that complement last night's panel discussion:
From "The Conversation": Tens of Thousands of Afghan Evacuees Made it to the US – Here’s How the Resettlement Process Works
From Georgetown University: Will Biden’s Plan to Resettle Afghans Transform the US Refugee Program?
From UCONN Today: Social Work Researchers Explore New Model to Sponsor Refugees
From the Migration Policy Institute: Rethinking the U.S. Legal Immigration System: A Policy Road Map
Thank you to our panelists

Muzaffar Chishti
Muzaffar Chishti, a lawyer, is an MPI Senior Fellow and Director of the MPI office at New York University School of Law. His work focuses on U.S. immigration policy at the federal, state, and local levels; the intersection of labor and immigration law; immigration enforcement; civil liberties; and immigrant integration.

Michael Hernández
Michael Hernández is an MPP candidate at the University of Chicago and a graduate of the University of Connecticut with a dual degree in Political Science and Economics in the Honors Program. Off-campus, he has worked on political campaigns, the U.S. Census, the Stamford Housing Affordability Study, and the historic Afford to Dream Act.

Kathryn Libal, Ph.D.
Kathryn Libal, Ph.D., is the Director of the Human Rights Institute and an Associate Professor of Social Work and Human Rights at the University of Connecticut. Since 2007, she has taught at the School of Social Work and Human Rights Institute, specializing in human rights, refugee resettlement, and social welfare.

Jennifer Williams, Esq.
Jennifer Williams, Esq., is B1C’s Immigration Removal Defense Director and will moderate our panel. Since 2007, Jennifer has practiced as an attorney specializing in immigration law, with a focus on removal defense representation cases that involve the intersection of criminal-immigration law.

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