Overview
Resource tables @ 5PM
Film screening @ 6PM
Panel conversation @ 7PM
Go beyond the headlines about U.S. immigrants and immigration policies and meet people who have come in search of greater opportunities for themselves and their families. How do new arrivals navigate the tension between who they are and what others ask them to become? What is lost — and what is gained — in a new country?
In partnership with Dodge Poetry, the program will open with poetry.
Then The Immigration Paradox, a documentary featuring revealing interviews from across the divide, will be screened. A panel conversation with immigration activists will follow.
Our panel will be moderated by Ingrid Echeverria, Attorney and former Chair of the Asylum Committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association.
Our panelists include:
Serges Demefack, Black Immigrant Justice Program Coordinator with the American Friends Service Committee
Ralph Thomassaint Joseph, Editor in Chief at AyiboPost, one of Haiti’s most competitive digital news outlets
Viri Martinez, Legislative and Political Action Manager, Make the Road New Jersey
Amber Reed, Co-Executive Director, Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders of New Jersey (AAPI NJ)