During Pro Bono Week 2023, the ABA Commission on Immigration, the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), the Children’s Immigration Law Academy (CILA), and the Immigration Justice Project (IJP) are proud to recognize our 2023 ABA Commission on Immigration Pro Bono Champions. The following individuals volunteered their time and expertise to support our clients during the past year. Pro bono work is crucial to upholding due process rights for immigrants, and we are grateful to our volunteers for their dedication to helping some of the most vulnerable members of our community.
Helena Abebe
Liza Abraham
Janelle Acosta
Nefi Acosta
Sherry Adler
Johanna Afshani
Scott Akin
Margarita Akopyan
Tali Albukerk
Ashley Alcala
Rebecca Allensworth
Arlene Amarante
Rodolfo Amaya Luna
Olivia Amezcua
Kirsten Andelman
Nancy Anderson
Emily Anderson
Litzi Araujo Ocampo
Adrian Arceo
Paul Armstrong
Emily Arnold
Ryota Asakura
Gregory Asciolla
Natisha Aviles
Emelyn Avina
Jennifer Avina
Lee Awbrey
Jacob Ayres
Segun Babatunde
Kathryn Babson
Marc Bachman
Nick Badii
Debborah Bain
Firuz Baratov
Zeena Barazanji
Carolyn Barbadoro
Carson Baucher
Teresa Beck
Wendy Beswick-Robinson
Rishi Bhatt
Stephen Blake
Riley Boreta
Kristin Boynton
Liath Bricks
Sarah Brim
Gracilene Brooks
John Brown
Hans Brownstein
Stacy Brustin
Samuel Buisman
Arturo Burga
Andy Cadel
Holly Campbell
Kiara Campos
Bartolome Canellas
Todd Cardiff
Megan Carpenter
Amalia Carrillo Batalla Matar
Anna Cevallos
Victoria Chang
Maria Chavez
Lu Chen
Qian Chen
Aidan Cho
Steve Christianson
Dan Chudleigh
Kristen Churchill
Adrian Ciscato
Jenny Cochrane
Lloyd Colona
Ginette Commins
Lance Conklin
Lauren Connell
Brian Connors
Joel Cook
Ashley Couch
Lisa Coyle
Melissa Crow
Nancy Cruz
Laura Curry
Batibut Cuyugan
Sophonie Dailly
Harold Darling
Devra Davis
Zachary Dayno
Yahaira De Lara
Regina Deangelis
Jessica Delgado
Sarah Deri Oshiro
Alexa Diaz
Sarah Diaz
Sarah J. Diaz
Ricardo Diaz Marrero
Phil Dobosz
Angela Dolginow
Teagan Dow
Angela Downing-Carr
Diego Duran de la Vega
Deborah Dyson
Shoshanna Ehrlich
Dena Elbayoumy
Gina Elliott
Aayah El-Naggar
Sarah Engell
Eleanor Erney
Olga Estrada
Hala Fakhoury
David Falk
Zandian Farsair
Maria Fernandez
Robert Ferretti
Susan Finegan
Brian Fitzpatrick
Anastasios Flokas
Jo Flores
Mario Flores
Bonnie Fought
Christine Fox
Melissa Freeling
Chassidy Frelow
Crystal Fu
Ray Fu
Dominic Gallucci
Amanda Galvan
Nate Ganong
Fanfei Gao
Amanda Garcia
Maria Estela Garcia-Yzaguirre
Mark J Ghatan
Bashir Ghazialem
Bo Gilbertson
Mary Giovagnoli
Catherine Ann Gnatek
Angelo Gomez
Joyce Goncalves Nogueira
Andrea Gonzalez
Jennifer Gonzalez
Cheyenna Gonzalez Pilsner
Elisa Gonzalez Trenche
Ashley Gordillo
Anna Gorisch
Mary Grace Chow
Emma Graham
Antonia Graphos
Danielle Griffith
Dicky Grigg
Karen Grisez
Juliette Grossman
Elisa Gu
Enola Gueta
Guadalupe Guzman
Stephanie M Gwyn
Karen Hadley
Ruth Hargrove
Christopher Harnish
Peter Hartofilis
Joshua B. Harvey
Linden Heffelfinger
Emily Heger
Carina Helu Iseli
Darin Hetman
Nicole Hoikka
Rosemary Hollinger
Mary Margaret Holmes
Kusia Hreshchyshyn
Sajjad Hussain
Elizabeth Hutson
Christopher Hyner
Ihuoma Igboanugo
Joshua Imatong
Nicole Israel
Alexandria Iwanenko
Ginger Jacobs
Michelle Jacobson
Zahra Jaffry
Marsha James
Caroline Jarcho
Jeff Jarkow
Steffani Jijon
Aaron Johnson
Sarah Jolie
Jennifer Jones
Sunny Jong
Juan Jose Gonzalez Martinez
Ellyn Josef
Rachel June-Graber
Tunaseli Kamburoglu
Helen Kaminski
Alex Kannan
Katrina Kauffman
Katrina Kaufman
Kimberly Kelley
Camille Keppi
Mojgan Kh
Anuj Khertapal
Won Ki Lee
Christine Kim
Gina Kim
Deborah Kimbuta
Jacob Klaiman
Brian Knowles
Sharadha Kodem
Adrian Kubicki
Alok Kumar
Allie Kushner
Raquel Lainez
Tiffany Lam-Bentley
Ana Larsen
Rebecca Larson
Wayne Latu
Josephine Le
Miguel Leal
Camila Lemaster
Camila LeMaster Esquivel
Richard Levin
Andrew Lewis
Monica Lewis
Vincent Y. Ling
Anna Lipjart
Abraham Liza
Michael Lok
Ysabel Lonazco
Amie Lopez
Genesis Lopez
Elliot Lund
Marisa Malek
Lisa Marcel Leon
Arlene Jacqueline Marcelle Grant
Amy Marchis
Kely Martell
Ashley Martinez
Solange Matheus
Mohan Mayank
Candace McCoy
Amy McDaniel
Laura McDavid
Lindsay McDowell
Amy McLellan
Michael McPherson
Andrea Mendez
Jesus Mendez
Emily Merchant
Emily Michie
Monika Middler
Chris J. Middleton
Mary Jane Miller
Angela Milstein
Angela Milstein, Angela
Shelly Mittrick
Jessica Mizrahi
Anna Moller
Daniela Moloci
Alex Monsalve
Michael Morales
Emeralda Morales Mejia
Isabella Moreira
Leslie Morris
Eric Morton
Shaquoya Moultrie Bell
Amy Mudd
Maya Mufson
Joseph Mulvey
Matthew Myatt
Andrea Navar
Karla Navarrete
Angela Nevard
Sophia Nguyen
Mirakmal Niyazmatov
Imelda Noyola
Ashley Nunez
Francisco Ojeda
Nicholas Orr
Maro Orte
Catrina Owino
Furkan Ozkundakci
Nicole Pabon
Angela Pace
Keisha Palmer
Andrea Parisi
Yuliya Pashkova
Ajay Patel
Parth Patel
Tim Patton
Natalie Peled
Stephanie Pengilley
Brent Persun
Steve Phillips
Maria Pia Matos
Bella Pianalto
Keira Pilates
Moises Prochovnik
Julian Quiroga Cubillos
Evelyn Quispe
Robin Ragan
Aarushi Raghunathan
Maria Ragova
Manuel Ramirez
Maria Ramirez
Yessica Ramirez
Fernando Ramirez-Ayard
Michelle Reed
Karen Reimus
Veronica Reinhagen
Jean Reisz
Sabrina Rewald
Michelle Reyes
Jade Reyes Reid
Zoie Reyna
Melina Rezaei
Sofia Rinvil
Katrina Riveron
Christopher Rizzo
Deva Robbins
Christine A Robles
Hazel Rodriguez
John Rodriguez
Janelle Rodriguez Mena
Brian Roe
Elizabeth Romo
Andrea Ronquillo Mendez
Caitlin Rowe
Georges Rozelen
Alexander Rubin
Celia Rutherford
Mari Saigal
Saiyora Saimurodova
Perla Salcedo
Serena Salinas
Leslie Santos
Puja Sarkar
H. Lee Sarokin
Doug Sasche
Lisa Schreter
Amanda Schuchhardt
Steven Schulman
Sharyna Scott
Andres Sellitto Ferrari
Caroline Sennett
Betul Serbest
Ashish Sharma
Gursharon Shergill
Ilyce Shugall
Alison Sigurdsson
Gabriela Sil
Erica Simlevski
Vanessa Simone
Woon-Wah Siu
Brian Smith
Howard Smith
Ryan Snyder
Javier Sobampo
Nicholas F Socci
Nareeneh Sohbatian
Hilary Soloff
Stephanie Sontag
Sonia Sotello
Desiree Spears
Bethany Spielman
Matthew Springmeyer
Artemis Spyridonidis
Kate Stephenson
Emily Suh
David Tannenbaum
Maria Tapia-Hernandez
Katherine Taylor
Jeremy Ray Thomas
Carlo Tognato
Laurie Tomassian
Jennifer Tomchak
Karla Torres Sueiro
Lou Tripodi
Cem Uyar
Claudia Valenzuela
Rebeca Valenzuela
C. Anthony Valladolid
Patricia Valle
Shayda Vance
Oneida Vargas
Onieda Vargas
Yovanna Vargas
Christina Velazquez
Andre Verdun
Anna Veross
Huong Vo
Laura Wagner
Michelle Wang
Spencer Weisbroth
Leongah Wheeler
Sharon White Senghor
Brittany Widin
Verena Wieditz
Katherine Woleben
Deborah Wolozin
Leah Wong
Sydney Wong
Jajah Wu
NikkiRae Yamane
Michael Yron
Carlie Zamorano Cardwell
Valeria Zepeda
Yi Yi Zhang
Isabella Zuluaga
Dahlia M. French
Jerry Berger
Amanda Hurd
Ryan Jones