MPC Summer Learning Series (Session 3)

When: 
Wednesday, August 10, 2022 -
10:00am to 11:00am EDT
Where: 
Virtual Meeting
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Members: $0.00
Non-members: $0.00
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In this final session of MPC's Summer Learning Series, we will hear from Anna Welch from Maine Law,  Jennifer Bailey from Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project (ILAP), and Anahita Sotoohi from ACLU Maine, about what was learned through the Lives in Limbo: How the Boston Asylum Office Fails Asylum Seekers report. We will hear a brief overview about the findings before opening up for a Q&A and discussion on how to use the results of the report in our work in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector.

Please take a look at the report before the session to generate a more meaningful and transformative discussion.

About the presenters

Anahita Sotoohi: I am a Legal Fellow at the American Civil Liberties Union of Maine, where my work focuses on Freedom of Information Act litigation and juvenile justice reform. Prior to moving to Maine for this role, I was a government defense litigator and a clerk for Judges Emily Anderson and Rayna Gokli of the Colorado District Court.

Anna Welch: Founding Director of the Refugee and Human Rights Clinic at Maine Law. Prior to joining Maine Law, served as a teaching fellow with Stanford Law School's Immigrants' Rights Clinic. Worked as a refugee resettlement officer in Nairobi, Kenya and the head of immigration at Verrill Dana. Previously served as a Fulbright Fellow in Lima, Peru.

Jennifer Bailey: Jennifer Bailey has been a champion of refugees & asylees since 1989, when she first worked on the Texas/Mexico border with the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR). Since then, she has worked at Human Rights Watch on refugee and inernally displaced issues and in Washington DC advocacy with the Jesuit Refugee Service/USA. Jennifer has been with ILAP in Maine since 2007 and is currently ILAP's Senior Project Attorney. Last year, she was awarded the Maine Justice Foundation’s 2021 Thomas P. Downing Jr. Award in recognition of her dedication to access to civil justice for vulnerable Mainers.

About the Summer Learning Series

At MPC, we believe in the value of learning – it is how we grow as a philanthropic and nonprofit community to become the most effective we can be.

This summer, join us for a series of informal virtual gatherings to learn more about recent Maine-focused research and reports that explores important issues in our community. We will hear from the creators about what they learned through their research, with ample time set aside for questions and discussion about how the results can be transformed into action that supports the people of Maine.

Come ready to be curious, ask questions, and strategize with your peers in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector to work towards a more vibrant, just, and equitable Maine.

Session 1: June 29, 2022 10am – 11am Registration
Report: COVID-19: Racial and Geographic Disparities in Maine
(John T. Gorman Foundation)

Session 2: July 27, 2022 10am – 11am Registration
Report:
Listening to Community Priorities in Wabanakiq (Elmina B. Sewall Foundation)

Session 3: August 10, 2022 10am – 11am Registration
Report: Lives in Limbo: How the Boston Asylum Office Fails Asylum Seekers
(Immigrant Legal Advocacy Project, ACLU of Maine, Maine Law)

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