Contact
Susan Konig, Communications, skonig@ccny.cuny.edu , 914 525 1867
Ashley Arocho, Communications, aarocho@ccny.cuny.edu 212 650 6460
Who
This event is co-sponsored by:
The City College School of Education Committee for Democratic and Caring Communities
The City College Partnership
The City College President's Office
What
On the Frontlines Defending Immigrant Families: A Conversation with Lee Gelernt, Lead ACLU Attorney Challenging Trump's Family Separation Policy
When
Monday, September 24, 2018
5:00 PM – 7:00 PM EDT
Where
The City College of New York
The Great Hall, 2nd Floor of Shepard Hall
160 Convent Avenue
New York, NY 10031
Join us for a conversation about continuing efforts to reunite children with their families after having been separated at the border.
Lee Gelernt is a lawyer at the national office of the ACLU in New York, and currently holds the positions of Deputy Director of the ACLU’s national Immigrants’ Rights Project and Director of the Project’s Access to the Court’s Program. During the past 18 months, he has argued several groundbreaking challenges to Trump Administration policies, and successfully argued the first case challenging the President’s travel ban on individuals from certain Muslim-majority nations.
Register for this free event here.
