CLE: Representation of Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings

William S. Boyd School of Law University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic

April 10, 2015
1:30 - 4:30 pm
BSL Room 105
3 CLE credits - .5 ethics credits

Representation of Unaccompanied Children in Immigration Proceedings

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Presenters

Katelyn Franklin graduated with her J.D. from the William S. Boyd School of Law in 2014.  While in law school, she completed an immigration law course during which she, along with five other classmates, drafted a report discussing violations of immigration detainee rights in the Henderson Detention Center.  She enrolled as a student attorney in the Immigration Clinic where she represented two asylum applicants in removal proceedings.  During her last year, she studied labor trafficking in New Delhi, India through the law school's International Human Rights Law Practicum.  She has been representing unaccompanied minors in removal proceedings as a justice AmeriCorps member in the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic since October of 2014.  Prior to law school, Katelyn worked with refugees resettling in the United States and studied anthropology at the University of Arizona.

Alissa Cooley graduated from Boyd in May 2014 and started working as a justice AmeriCorp attorney within the Thomas & Mack Legal Clinic in December 2014. With Katelyn Franklin, she represents unaccompanied immigrant children in their removal proceedings and conducts related community outreach.  While in law school, she worked as a student attorney in the Immigration Clinic with Professors Fatma Marouf and Angela Morrison.  There, she represented a U-visa applicant and VAWA self-petitioner. She also filed bond determination appeals with the Board of Immigration Appeals and requests for stays of removal with ICE. Alissa was involved in the post-publication advocacy of the Immigration Clinic report discussing conditions of confinement for immigrant detainees at Henderson Detention Center. She attended community rallies and City Council meetings and prepared testimony to present at a Congressional Ad Hoc Hearing convened by United States Congressman Steven Horsford last March.

Esther Brown is a child advocate with a background in criminal justice, law, and psychology. In 2005, she established The Embracing Project, a non-profit, community-based group that focuses on youths touched by gangs and survivors of sex trafficking. Esther teaches juveniles in the criminal justice system the similarities between gangs and genocide and then relates it to genocide in other countries. The twelve-week curriculum also teaches the youths tools for self-enrichment.  Esther also founded the Center 4 Peace as a collaborative model for serving young women, ages twelve to eighteen, affected by violence. In 2011, Esther began working as a Sexually Exploited Youth Court Administrator within the Clark County Courts to create infrastructure, programs, and collaboration among Child Welfare, Department of Juvenile Justice, Juvenile Courts, community organizations, and providers to promote permanency, safety plans, and adequate services for dual-involved sexually exploited children. She has also served as the co-chair of the Disproportionate Minority Representation and the Attorney General 2012 Legislature Committee for Sexual Exploitation.  She also serves on a member of the Nevada Supreme Court Statewide Juvenile Justice Reform, the Southern Nevada Human trafficking Task Force Training Committee, and a board member of the Youth Neighborhood Association Partnership Program, as appointed by Mayor Carol Goodman. She was nominated for the 2013 Women of Worth Award from the Points of Light Foundation, presented by L'Oreal, the Mothering Across Continents and the 2013 Peace Progress Award by Mothering Across Continents, and the 2013 El-Hibri Peace Education Prize.

Fatma Marouf, Co-Director of the Thomas and Mack Legal Clinic Immigration Clinic and Associate Professor of Law - http://www.law.unlv.edu/faculty/fatma-marouf.html

Agenda

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