CGRS—ACTIVE AND INVOLVED

In February, CGRS hosted noted women’s rights activist, academic and lawyer Rashida Manjoo (third from left) who spoke about the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission as a Model for Gender Justice. Accompanying Ms. Manjoo (from left to right) are: U.C. Hastings Chancellor and Dean Nell Jessup Newton, CGRS Director Karen Musalo, and staff members Felecia Bartow, Ana Martinez and Stephen Knight.

In April, Leena Khandwala (right), CGRS Appellate Advocacy Fellow, was part of a panel discussion on sex trafficking at U.C. Hastings. Other panelists included Marianne Barrett (left), San Francisco Assistant District Attorney, and Norma Hotaling (center), Founder and Executive Director of the SAGE Project.

CGRS Deputy Director Stephen Knight (far right) participated in a panel discussion on immigration at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco in March. Moderated by Dean Alan Jones (far left), other panelists (left to right) included Mark Silverman of the Immigrant Legal Resource Center , journalist Diana deRegnier, and attorneys Penelope Kronis and Elizabeth Kreher.

In March, CGRS participated in an international conference held at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles to raise awareness about Guatemala’s femicides. Pictured from left to right are: Diana Rodriguez, CGRS’s Program Coordinator; human rights activist Jorge Velásquez, the father of Claudina Isabel Velásquez, a 19 year-old law student who was brutally murdered in 2005; and Kate Orlovsky and David Zisser, third-year law students in U.C. Hastings’ Refugee and Human Rights Clinic.

CGRS welcomed Enrique Barrera (right), with Guatemala’s Grupo de Apoyo Mutuo (GAM), during his April visit to San Francisco. GAM seeks justice for the disappeared and their families. He was joined by Michael Smith (left) of the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant in Berkeley.