New Mexico Commission On Access to Justice Presents: Community Webinar Series-Immigration Issues & Resources
New Mexico Commission On Access to Justice Presents: Community Webinar Series: Immigration Issues & Resources
This webinar is designed to provide information to community-based organizations on civil legal issues within the immigrant community and mixed-status households including resources and options for addressing those concerns.
Representatives from nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, health care providers, social service agencies, local government, libraries, faith-based associations, and the business community are encouraged to register for this free webinar. Participants will have the opportunity to ask questions.
Presenter Line-Up
Shalini Thomas, NMILC
Shalini is the Legal Program Manager at New Mexico Immigrant Law Center and is also a full DOJ Accredited Representative. Before joining the NMILC, she worked for Diocesan Migrant and Refugee Services in El Paso, Texas, where she was an Accredited Representative for 5 years.
Emma Race, NMILC
Originally from Boston, Emma began working at NMILC in 2018 as an AmeriCorps Public Ally fellow. Now, Emma manages NMILC's Intakes and Partnerships, focusing on improving services for immigrant survivors of crime--especially domestic violence and sexual assault survivors--by creating partnerships with local service providers and assisting potential clients navigate the legal system. Emma also supervises NMILC's social services programming, which connects clients to community resources to address their needs holistically. She graduated summa cum laude from Connecticut College with a B.A. in English and Latin American & Latino Studies. In Connecticut, she worked with a coalition of community organizations to start an immigration storytelling workshop series and continues to dedicate herself to migrant justice.
Zoila Y. Alvarez Hernández, ACLU-NM
Zoila is an Immigrant Rights Attorney dedicated to immigration detention issues, increasing ICE and CBP accountability, and combating the entanglement of local resources going to increased immigration enforcement. Through her work, Zoila seeks to enforce immigrants’ civil rights through strategic litigation, education, and policy advocacy. Zoila attended UNM School of Law, and in 2018, she worked as a student attorney for the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Law Clinic hosted at Greater Boston Legal Services where she represented South American and Caribbean asylees. Zoila hopes her work will help improve the health and well-being of New Mexico’s immigrant children and families.
Maria Coronado, ACLU-NM
Maria is an Immigrant Rights Field Organizer for the ACLU Las Cruces Regional Center for Border Rights working in in Dona Ana, Luna, Grant, and Otero Counties. Born in Nogales, Sonora, Mexico she moved in the 1980s to Cd. Juarez, Chihuahua with her family then soon after to El Paso, Texas. Maria has volunteered with different agencies including the Housing Authority and is active in community politics. She worked as an external/internal labor organizer with SEIUTX in El Paso securing salary increases for employees at several hospitals. Maria is passionate about Immigration reform due to her own personal experiences.
Grace Spulak, Director, Access to Justice Commission
Webinar Moderator
NMILC is part of the New Mexico Commission On Access to Justice.
Posted March 3, 2022 by Flaviano Graciano, Communications Manager
