 CGRS Welcomes Staff Attorney Lisa Frydman
This July CGRS was pleased to welcome Staff Attorney Lisa Frydman to the organization. An honors graduate of Boalt Hall School of Law, Lisa brings to CGRS extensive experience in asylum law, including a focus on protections for unaccompanied immigrant children. As a staff attorney at Legal Services for Children in San Francisco and an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center (FIAC) in Miami, Lisa has represented immigrant children seeking asylum, protection as victims of human trafficking, Special Immigrant Juvenile status, and other types of relief. Many of Lisa's asylum cases involved representing young women fleeing gender-specific persecution, such as forced marriage, female genital cutting, and sexual abuse.
Lisa has significant appellate experience practicing before the Board of Immigration Appeals and has represented clients in federal district court. She has also played an integral role in local and national efforts aimed at improving policies and practices governing the treatment of immigrant children. Through her participation in legislative, administrative, and media advocacy activities as well as public education campaigns, Lisa has fought for the rights of immigrant children, refugees, and other vulnerable non-citizens. She has delivered numerous presentations to judges, attorneys, law students, and community members on a broad range of topics, including children's asylum claims and representing trafficked children, among others.
"I've long admired CGRS's excellent work," says Lisa, "which I benefited from greatly as a practitioner. I feel so fortunate to have joined the CGRS team and look forward to working with attorneys from around the country to push the envelope on gender refugee law."
As CGRS’s Staff Attorney, Lisa coordinates the provision of technical assistance and training to lawyers and other advocates across the country and internationally, and she serves as an expert on the issue of gender asylum to diverse constituencies, including grassroots advocates and the media. Among other activities, Lisa helps to identify and implement legal and advocacy strategies to promote the rights of women refugees, she coordinates the drafting and filing of legal briefs at the administrative and federal court levels, and she conducts original research and writing on a range of topics related to women's human rights and gender-based asylum.
Lisa can be reached at frydmanl@uchastings.edu or (415) 565-4791. |
