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Wednesday June 24
2020
 Immigration Intake Training for LGBTQ/HIV Advocates (Part 2 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
    Wednesday, June 24, 2020
    1:00 pm - 3:30 pm
  • CLE Credits
    Ethics and Professionalism: 0.50
    Skills: 1.00
    Areas of Professional Practice: 1.00
  • Format
    Webinar: Questions Allowed During Program
  • Practice Area(s)
    Ethics
    HIV
    Immigration
    LGBT
    Practice Skills
  • Price: $0

About the Faculty

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    Rex Chen (Speaker)

    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.
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    Kinjal Patel (Speaker)

    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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    Sarah Telson (Speaker)

    Sarah M. Telson is a queer, Black, short New Yorker. She has been practicing at Brooklyn Legal Services since 2014 and has been a Senior Staff Attorney in the Immigrants’ Rights and Advocacy Project since 2018. She believes in the full liberation of queer and trans Black folks, and to that end, has worked to build a practice prioritizing the immigration needs of queer and trans people of color.
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    Lynn Ventura (Speaker)

    Lynn Ventura has been employed since 2000 as a senior staff attorney at Manhattan Legal Services (formerly Harlem Legal Services), where she worked in the HIV Unit and now works as an immigration attorney in the Family and Immigration Law Unit, Lynn received a B.A. and a J.D. from the University of Miami, and M.S. from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism.