Currently she is an Immigration Specialist at Mercy Center, a non-profit organization in the South Bronx, and hopes to pursue a Master’s Degree in Social Work in the near future.Įmily Miller is a senior at Barnard College majoring in political economics with a minor in sociology. She is a first-generation student and is interested in understanding more about immigration. She is currently writing her undergraduate thesis on the medical inspections along the U.S-Mexico border during the early 20th century. I am selfless and motivated to help others.”Īlondra Lucero is a senior at Barnard College majoring in History with a concentration in Latin America. Even though I’m a naturalized US citizen, will I ever fully belong to either culture? I am a first generation low income student and while it is extremely challenging to be one at Columbia, I say it with pride because it has cost both my family and myself to bring me to where I am today. One prominent question I have struggled with is, What constitutes citizenship? I was born in the Dominican Republic but have lived in NYC for 16 years. She writes, “I decided to study my specific major because it allowed me to dig deeper regarding questions I had lived with my whole life and had come up as I entered college. She intends to go to law school and become an attorney. She writes, “Coming from a family of asylum seekers to this country, my academic interest in the subject and in this seminar has deep personal meaning for me.”Ĭhabely Jorge studies Anthropology with a Concentration in Latin American and Caribbean Studies. Gabi is interested in the historical patterns of migration in the Americas. She is currently interning in the Bureau of Internet and Technology at the New York Attorney General’s Office, where she works on data breach cases. Gabi completed an internship in the homicide division of the State Attorney’s Office in Miami-Dade County the previous summer. She is a Junior at Barnard College, where she is President of her class and is majoring in American Studies with a concentration in Transnational Studies and minoring in Spanish and Political Science.
Gabi Garcia is a Cuban-American born and raised in Miami, Florida. I’m also interested to see how this collaborative project can work to create networks among both community organizers and these on-the-ground organizations that could give organizers more resources to continue leading their own initiatives that assist people in different parts of the asylum-seeking process within and outside of detention while creating approaches that also prioritize ending detention and confinement completely.”
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She writes, “I’m interested in researching the history of the shifting standards of credibility within the asylum-seeking process and how on-the-ground organizations like the Dilley Pro Bono Project approach the constant need to adapt the types of legal representation provided to people in detention. She worked with the Dilley Pro-Bono project this past summer during Sessions’ reversal of gang violence and domestic violence as claims for asylum and the implementation of the zero-tolerance immigration policy. She’s involved in the Mellon Mays Undergraduate fellowship, Mujeres, the well-woman program as a peer educator, and as second year First-Year-Focus Residential Assistant on campus. Jessica Cruz is currently a junior at Barnard double majoring in History and Spanish. I have been feeling a little uninspired by my History degree and wanting to get more involved in the field I plan to pursue, so I’m really eager to collaborate with the Dilley Pro Bono Project and learn more about immigration injustice and ways to get involved.” She writes, “I’m taking this class because after college I plan on getting my Master’s in Social Work and I think it combines History and Social Work in a very impactful way. She is also a member of Bacchantae, Barnard’s all-female a cappella group. She is particularly interested in the 20th century. Sarah Cicero is a junior at Barnard studying United States History and minoring in Spanish. Top Row(r-l): Professor Nara Milanich, Andrea Vallejos, Emily Reed, Jessica Cruz, Gabi Garcia, Emily Miller, Sarah Cicero, Chabely Jorge, Alondra Lucero, Liane Aronchick and Fanny Garcia
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