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Tel: 215.731.1002
Fax: 215.573.2025
Email: fchang@law.upenn.edu
Expertise
- AIDS Policy
- Immigration Law
- Non-Profit Organizations
- Public Interest
- Social Welfare Law and Policy
Bio
Fernando Chang-Muy is the Thomas O’Boyle lecturer in Law at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, where he teaches Refugee Law and Policy. He also lectures on organizational effectiveness at the Graduate School of Social Policy and Practice, Executive Education Program, with a focus on strategic planning, board governance and resource development. He is the author of various articles dealing with immigration and refugees, human rights, public health and organizational capacity building.
Drawing upon his experience in law, refugee camp administration, and philanthropy, Fernando also provides independent consulting, coaching, and training to government agencies, local and national philanthropic institutions, social service agencies, and cultural organizations. His specific areas of expertise that help to strengthen the effectiveness of organizations include: strategic planning, board governance, resource development (with a focus on individual donor campaigns), human resource development, and meeting and process facilitation. Clients include Hispanics in Philanthropy, a 50 million dollar nationwide collaborative of funders that increases the net amount of philanthropic dollars flowing to Latino nonprofits, the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Aging, and the City of Philadelphia’s Law as well as Health Departments.
He is a former Program Officer at The Philadelphia Foundation, and past coordinator of the Emma Lazarus Collaborative, a collaborative of foundations that, through matching grants from the Open Society Institute, supported non-profit organizations providing service and advocacy for immigrants and refugees. He has also served as start-up founding director of the Liberty Center for Survivors of Torture, a federally funded project which raises awareness about survivors of torture, and provides mental health, health and legal case management for survivors of torture. He is a former Co-Chair of the Philadelphia Bar Association's International Human Rights Committee; and a former Assistant Dean and Equal Opportunity Officer of the College at Swarthmore College where he also taught International Human Rights and Refugee Law and Policy.
From 1988 to 1993, he served as Legal Officer with two United Nations agencies: the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugee (UNHCR) and the World Health Organization (WHO), serving as the human rights officer for its Global Program on AIDS. Before joining the UN, he was a staff attorney at Community Legal Services in Philadelphia where he served as Director of the Southeast Asian Refugee Project, managing the provision of free legal aid to low-income people in Philadelphia.
He is a graduate of Loyola, B.A, Georgetown M.A., Antioch, J.D. and Harvard Law School’s Negotiation Project. He is the recipient of a 1982-83 Reginald Heber Smith Fellowship (Reggie) awarded by Congress through Howard University to law school graduates committed to civil rights; a 1990 21st Century Trust Fellowship from the United Kingdom; the 2001 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Social Justice Award from the Rutgers University School of Law, the 2002 Michael Greenberg GALLOP award for leadership, activism and legal advocacy, and the Justicia award in 2007 from the Hispanic Bar Association of Pennsylvania. He was named the 2002-03 Thomas O’Boyle Lecturer at the University of Pennsylvania School of Law, established to recognize the contributions made to students’ legal education by outstanding lawyers and judges who teach and share their experience with students. He serves on the Boards of national and local public interest organizations and government agencies including the Boards of the Delaware Valley Grantmakers, the Allan Hilles Fund, the United Way of SE Pa’s Community Impact Plan Subcommittee, the Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Association Coalition, the Refugee Advisory Committee of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania Department of Public Welfare, and PECO/Exelon’s Excellence in Volunteerism program.
Representative Professional Positions
Southeast Asian Mutual Assistance Coalition, Board Member
Robert Wood Johnson Foundation’s Local Funding Initiative Partners, National Advisory Board
Wachovia Regional Foundation, Trustee
The Merchant's Fund, Trustee
Representative Publications
SOCIAL WORK WITH IMMIGRANTS AND REFUGEES: LEGAL ISSUES, CLINICAL SKILLS AND ADVOCACY
- 11/01/08
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“Detention of Migrants,@ Building Violence: How Americas Rush to Incarcerate Creates More Violence, Sage Publications, eds. John P. May and Khalid R. Pitts, California 1999
“Consultation on Mexico,@ Report of summary of conference prepared for the American Friends Service Committee, January 1998
“Regional Responses to Forced Migration in Central America and the Carribean,@ White Paper prepared for the Forced Migration Projects of the Open Society Institute for the Conference on Regional Responses to Forced Migration in Central America and the Caribbean, September 1997
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For additional publications, please consult
Current & Recent Research
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Curriculum Vitae
Education
- J.D. - Antioch - '82
- M.A. - Georgetown - '78
- B.A. - Loyola - '76
Courses Taught
- Immigration
- Refugee Law
- Social Welfare and the Law
- International Human Rights
- AIDS and International Human Rights
Research Areas
- Refugees
- Human Rights
- Non Profit Organizations
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