FYI: Panel Discussion: Status of LGBT Rights Under U.S. Immigration Law, 2/2, UW School of Law

Are you passionate about LGBT rights?

Do you care about immigration issues and immigrants' rights?

Ever thought about how U.S. immigration laws affect LGBT people?

Come to a fascinating, stimulating panel discussion about the Status
of LGBT Rights Under U.S. Immigration Law!

Organized by Outlaws, the Immigrant Families Advocacy Project, and the
Center for Human Rights and Justice.

When: February 2, 2010 at 5:30pm
Where: UW School of Law, William H. Gates Hall, Room 127, UW Seattle
Reception to follow (21+ only), Room 115

Who: Three distinguished panelists with diverse backgrounds and experiences

AARON C. MORRIS
Immigration Equality
As a Staff Attorney at Immigration Equality in Washington, D.C., Morris provides direct representation to indigent LGBT and HIV-positive foreign nationals in asylum proceedings, at adjustment-of-status and naturalization interviews, and in the federal
courts. Morris also represents transgender individuals in marriage-based green card applications and in obtaining gender-appropriate identity documents from U.S. immigration authorities. He also provides general legal advice to same-sex binational couples in navigating the immigration system. Currently, he serves as Secretary of the New York City Bar Associations Committee on AIDS.

JACQUE LARRAINZAR
Seattle Office for Civil Rights
Larrainzar joined the Seattle Office for Civil Rights in 2000, and in 2008 she became the manager for the Policy and Outreach Unit. Larrainzar has worked in many issues that impact LGBT communities in Seattle, including the passage of anti-discrimination legislation, hate crimes, same sex marriage, domestic partnership benefits, transgender issues, and police and LGBT community relations. She is most proud of having served on the steering committee of Unid@s a National LGBT Latino Civil Rights Organization, the Northwest Women’s Law Center Board of Directors, and UW’s “Q” Center, but her greatest accomplishments are having been selected Seattle’s Miss Gay Latina in 1998 and being the first lesbian from Mexico to win political asylum based on her sexual orientation.

ANGÉLICA CHÁZARO
Northwest Immigrant Rights Project
Cházaro currently works as a Staff Attorney in the VAWA and Impact Litigation Unitsof the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP). Before NWIRP, she worked with the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies, Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Unit in New York, and Sanctuary for Families. She is author of "Witnessing Memory and Surviving Domestic Violence: The Case of Rodi Alvarado Peña," a chapter in an immigration text from the Rockefeller Series on Latin American Studies.

We hope to see you at this exciting, informative discussion!

Sponsored by: University of Washington Graduate & Professional Student Senate (GPSS); ASUW GBLT Commission; UW Student Bar Association (SBA); University of Washington School of Law Student Organization Sponsored Speaker Grant; and the following Registered Student Organizations - Outlaws, Center for Human Rights & Justice (CHRJ), and the Immigrant Families Advocacy Project (IFAP).

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