Sparer Symposium 2013
32nd Annual Edward V. Sparer Symposium
Friday, March 15, 2013
Repairing the Broken Door: Strategies for Immigration Advocacy and Reform
Schedule of Events
9:00 a.m. Opening Remarks
- Michael A. Fitts, Dean and Bernard G. Segal Professor of Law, Penn Law School
- Howard L esnick, Jefferson B. Fordham Professor of Law, Penn Law School
9:15 a.m. Where Are We Now? The State of Immigration Today
- Lucas Guttentag, Founding National Director, ACLU Immigrant Rights Project
- Mary Meg McCarthy, Executive Director, National Immigrant Justice Center
9:45 a.m. Policing Immigrant Communities: State and Local Immigration Enforcement Trends and Challenges
- Marielena Hincapié, Executive Director, National Immigration Law Center
- Juan Osuna, Director, Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Department of Justice
- Nicholas Perry, Assistant General Counsel for Immigration Enforcement, U.S. Department of Homeland Security
- Mark Shurtleff, former Utah Attorney General and Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP
11:15 a.m. Working Outside the Lines: Immigrants and Exclusion from Labor and Employment Protections
- Ana Avendano, Assistant to the President and Director of Immigration and Community Action, AFL-CIO
- Cathleen Caron, Founder and Executive Director, Global Workers Justice Alliance
- Arthur Read, General Counsel, Friends of Farmworkers
- Lorelei Salas, Legal Director, Make the Road New York
12:45 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. Keynote Introduction - Tania Chairez, University of Pennsylvania Student and DREAM Act Activist
KEYNOTE ADDRESS: Jose Antonio Vargas, Founder of Define American, Pulitzer Prize Winning Journalist
2:00 p.m. Strategizing Gender and Sexuality: How Personal Narratives Shape and are Shaped by the Immigration System
- Fernando Chang-Muy, Thomas O’Boyle Lecturer in Law, Refugee Law, and Policy, Penn Law School
- Ayodele Gansallo, Senior Staff Attorney, HIAS Pennsylvania
- Victoria Neilson, Legal Director, Immigration Equality
3:30 p.m. Where Do We Go from Here? Priorities for Immigration Reform
- Edward Alden, Senior Fellow, Council on Foreign Relations
- Tamar Jacoby, President & CEO, ImmigrationWorksUSA
- Brittney Nystrom, Director for Advocacy, Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Services
5:00 p.m. Reception