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Wednesday April 15
2020
 Anti-API Attacks in the Time of Covid19: Building Solidarity and Fighting Back Together as Anti-Racist Allies

The webinar will address the history of anti-Asian bias and the heightened racist attacks on Asian-Americans today in the U.S. The webinar will also address the effects on API individuals and allies, a new wave of bigotry through leadership, implications on immigration. And finally, the workshop will present and discuss ways to fight against these attacks on the API Community or specifically against those now facing such violence and hatred. Participants will be allowed to submit questions prior to the webinar for the live Q&A portion at the end.

Speakers:
Elizabeth OuYang, Adjunct faculty at Columbia University and New York University
Shanehi Shah, Social Impact Consultant and API Affinity Group Facilitator for MPG Consulting
Rex Chen, Director of Immigration Services at LSNYC
Janice Chua, Coordinating Attorney with the Pro Bono Network at LSNYC
Rose Morgan, JLC Coordinating Attorney for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education

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  • When
    Wednesday, April 15, 2020
    3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Diversity, Inclusion and Elimination of Bias
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Rose Morgan (Moderator)

    Rose Morgan is the Director of Legal Education and Professional Development and leads the Justice Learning Center at Legal Services NYC. Previously, she was the coordinating Attorney for Diversity, Equity & Inclusion Education at The Justice Learning Center for Legal Services NYC (LSNYC). Rose has significant experience in early adult education as well as city government enforcing federal, state and local anti-discrimination laws in employment-related matters. She has also developed, coordinated and presented trainings on a city, state and national level for lawyers and other advocates on substantive legal issues as well as discrimination and diversity matters. She has also served clients in local legal services offices in Queens, Brooklyn and Manhattan providing representation in the practice areas of employment discrimination, consumer and family law. Rose served as a former president of The Legal Services Staff Association and has continued her union work as an active participant on labor-management committees at LSNYC.
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    Janice Chua (Moderator)

    Janice Chua is an Immigration Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney at Legal Services NYC (LSNYC), where she provides training and mentoring to pro bono attorneys at law firms and corporations on a variety of immigration matters. Prior to joining the pro bono unit, she was a Staff Attorney at LSNYC’s Queens office, focusing on humanitarian immigration relief. She started her legal career at New York Legal Assistance Group, where she represented individuals in removal proceedings and other complex immigration cases. Janice was in the first class of Immigrant Justice Corps (IJC) legal fellows, from 2014 to 2017. Through IJC, she represented detained families in Karnes and Dilley detention centers in Texas in 2015. Janice received her law degree from Fordham University School of Law in 2014 where she dedicated herself to promoting economic justice and community development, and to fighting to protect the rights of survivors of human trafficking and workplace crimes.
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    Rex Chen (Panel Member)

    Rex (he, him) is the Immigration Director for Legal Services NYC, the largest civil legal services provider in the country. He spoke in 2022 on a panel about structural racism in immigration law at AILA’s annual conference. He is Taiwanese-American and had a chance to work with activists Yuri Kochiyama and Kazu Iijima to overturn an immigrant’s wrongful murder conviction. He chaired AILA’s 2023 Litigation Institute and received an AILA President’s Commendation in 2023. He is an expert on suppression motions in immigration court and has won a Third Circuit appeal involving the interplay between a United Nations Convention and immigration law.