The Immigration Advocates Network Podcast by Justicia Lab Immigration Advocates Network

This podcast conversation focuses on the new streamlined DA process and how labor organizers and other immigration advocates can work together to help working immigrants gain equal access to justice. 

Lisa Smith, Chief Counsel, Family and Gender Violence, New York State Office of Court Administration, explains the pathways in the New York court system for domestic violence cases. 

Join us as we discuss working with Afghan Nationals with Spojmie Nasiri of Spojmie Nasiri Law and Katherine Veldhuizen, Program Coordinator with the Afghan Legal Clinic with The Advocates for Human Rights’ Refugee & Immigrant Program. In this episode we talk about the challenges and issues Afghan clients are facing and ways immigration advocates can help. 

Join us as we talk with Emily DiMatteo and Mia Ives-Rublee from The Center For American Progress about working with clients with disabilities.

In this interview we speak with IRC Deputy Director of Immigration Amber Mull. We discuss how IRC created and sustained remote legal services during the pandemic. 

In this series, we talk to experts in the field to get their insight on working with a particular immigration client subset. This episode’s focus is on working with LGBTQ immigrants and features Amitesh Parikh, Senior Staff Attorney in Immigration Equality’s Pro Bono Program.