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Tuesday June 23
2020
 Immigration Intake Training for LGBTQ/HIV Advocates (Part 1 of 2)

This two-part training offers a brief overview on immigration law and the common immigration issues (namely, asylum and other forms of humanitarian relief; marriagebased immigration; public benefits) our LGBTQ/HIV advocates see at our various LGBTQ intake clinics. We will also spend part of the training going over an immigration intake tool that we developed with our LGBTQ/HIV advocates in mind.

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  • When
    Tuesday, June 23, 2020
    1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Areas of Professional Practice: 2.50
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    HIV
    Immigration
    LGBT
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Stephanie Taylor (Speaker)

    Stephanie Taylor is the Director of Brooklyn Legal Services' Immigrants' Rights & Advocacy Project at Brooklyn Legal Services and has been practicing immigration law since 2004. Prior to her current position, Stephanie was the Director of the Immigration Advocacy Project at Queens Legal Services. While at QLS, Stephanie practiced both immigration law and family law. She graduated from Brooklyn Law School in 2006 and lives in Brooklyn.
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    Dave Wilkins (Speaker)

    Dave Wilkins (he, him) is the Director of Immigration and LGBTQ/HIV+ Advocacy at Staten Island Legal Services. Before joining Legal Services NYC, he was an Asylum Officer at the Newark Asylum Office. He was an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow and a Staff Attorney at Central American Legal Assistance in Brooklyn, where his practice focused on representing Central American asylum seekers in removal proceedings. He received his JD from Georgetown University Law Center, where he was an advocate in and research assistant for the Center for Applied Legal Studies clinic and received a certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies.
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    Kinjal Patel (Moderator)

    Kinjal Patel (she/her) is a Skadden Fellow in the LGBTQ/HIV Advocacy Unit at Staten Island Legal Services (SILS), where she began her career as an attorney. During law school, she participated in clinics and internships that focused on legal issues related to gender, health, and human rights. Prior to attending law school, she worked as a research assistant at Boston Children’s Hospital. She holds a BA from Amherst College and a JD from Duke Law School.
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    Rex Chen (Moderator)

    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.