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Legal Director As Legal Director at CGRS, Blaine oversees strategic litigation, policy and advocacy, and research on behalf of refugees and asylum seekers as well as provision of technical assistance and training to attorneys across the country.
Blaine is part of the legal team representing Ms. A-B-, a... Read more |
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Managing Attorney Neela Chakravartula is a Managing Attorney at CGRS. Neela came to CGRS after working for four years as a staff attorney at the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, where she researched and reviewed cases raising claims for asylum and related forms of relief. Neela also worked in... Read more |
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Director of Litigation As the Director of Litigation, Jamie leads CGRS’s affirmative litigation, direct representation work, and appellate practice before federal courts and immigration agencies.
Jamie has an extensive background in complex civil rights litigation with a focus on immigrants’ rights and fair... Read more |
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Staff Attorney As a Staff Attorney at CGRS, Annie Daher focuses on strategic litigation, research, training, technical assistance, and policy advocacy to advance the rights of asylum seekers. Annie is also co-author of Refugee Law and Policy: An International and Comparative Approach (5th edition). ... Read more |
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Staff Attorney Anne is a Staff Attorney at CGRS, where she engages in strategic litigation and provides technical assistance and training to advance the rights of asylum seekers. Anne first joined CGRS as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. Before assuming her Staff Attorney role, Anne clerked for the Honorable... Read more |
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Deputy Director Moira Duvernay serves as Deputy Director at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (CGRS) and Executive Director of CGRS-California, the California-focused arm of CGRS, an independent non-profit organization closely affiliated with CGRS. Moira came to CGRS as an experienced litigator in the... Read more |
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Legal Program Associate As a Legal Program Associate, Kristen provides litigation support, manages CGRS’s asylum case database, and supports CGRS’s technical assistance program. Prior to joining CGRS, Kristen interned and worked with several Bay Area nonprofits, charities and organizations, including ViviendasLeon, the... Read more |
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Director of Policy & Advocacy As Director of Policy & Advocacy, Kate Jastram leads CGRS’s efforts to fight back against the current Administration’s attack on asylum seekers through policy advocacy and public education.
Kate served as a legal advisor for the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for... Read more |
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Communications and Advocacy Coordinator krongbrianna@uchastings.edu
Before joining the CGRS team, Brianna worked as an intern at Accountability Counsel to advocate for communities around the world harmed by internationally... Read more |
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Director of Training and Technical Assistance Christine is Director of Training and Technical Assistance. Previously, she co-taught and supervised the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at UC Hastings as the Kazan, McClain, Abrams, Fernandez, Lyons, Greenwood, Harley & Oberman Foundation Clinical Teaching Fellow. Before joining CGRS,... Read more |
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Director of Development Steven Love is the Development Director at CGRS. Steven has more than 20 years of executive level experience, working with Bay Area nonprofit organizations focusing on legal services, the environment, higher education and social service. He has provided strategic leadership to the Justice &... Read more |
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Legal-Medical Advisor Dr. Stuart L. Lustig has served as an expert witness in dozens of asylum cases adjudicated by U.S. Department of Homeland Security Asylum Offices, and U.S. Department of Justice Immigration Courts with a focus on the assessment of torture, trauma and associated psychiatric consequences. ... Read more |
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Staff Attorney As a Staff Attorney at CGRS, Sayoni provides technical assistance and training to advocates and engages in strategic litigation to protect the rights of asylum seekers. Before joining CGRS, she worked at Sanctuary for Families as a Staff Attorney in the Immigration Intervention Project, where... Read more |
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Director Professor Karen Musalo, Bank of America Chair in International Law, is the founding director of the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies and the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at U.C. Hastings College of the Law. She is lead co-author of Refugee Law and Policy: An International and... Read more |
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Kazan McClain Partners’ Foundation Clinical Teaching Fellow Christine co-teaches and supervises the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at UC Hastings. Previously, she worked at New York Lawyers for the Public Interest (NYLPI) as a Staff Attorney in the Health Justice Program where she founded a program to provide immigration services to undocumented and... Read more |
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Felipe came to CGRS from Catholic Charities of San Francisco, San Mateo, and Marin Counties, where he worked as a DOJ accredited representative providing direct legal services and conducting outreach among the immigrant community. In this capacity, he represented... Read more |
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Senior Staff Attorney Anne is a Senior Staff Attorney at CGRS. She came to CGRS after working in private practice as a Senior Immigration Attorney at the Law Office of Robert B. Jobe where she represented hundreds of asylum-seekers in removal proceedings, represented immigrants in all manner of affirmative matters,... Read more |
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Finance and Development Associate Vivane serves as CGRS's Finance and Development Associate. Before joining CGRS, she interned at the International Rescue Committee as an Anti-Trafficking intern where she worked on raising human trafficking awareness and resettling transnational survivors of trafficking in the Bay Area. Vivane... Read more |
