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Isabella Marrin<\/strong>, Co-President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Owen Morrish<\/strong>, Co-President<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kiersten Hash<\/strong>, Co-Director of Client Engagement Services (CES)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chloe Haskell,<\/strong> Co-Director of Client Engagement Services (CES)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ireland Lesley,<\/strong> Co-Director of the Policy Initiative<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Carlos Hevia-Aza Tomillo<\/strong>, Director of the International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Preeti Chemiti<\/strong>, Director of Finance<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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                Cindy Zapata<\/h2>

                Lecturer on Law<\/span><\/p>

                Cindy Zapata is a Clinical Instructor in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She supervises and trains students in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) and in the Crimmigration Clinic. As part of HIRC, she supervises and trains law students working on applications for asylum and other humanitarian protections. In the Crimmigration Clinic, she focuses mainly on direct representation, including bond representation and immigration applications. She coordinates various community outreach efforts, including Know-Your-Rights presentations and Advice and Counsel sessions in the greater Boston area. She also serves as the supervising attorney for the HLS Immigration Project (HIP), a student-practice organization at HLS focused on immigration-related efforts and advocacy. She was previously a litigation associate at Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP. She holds a J.D. from UC Berkeley School of Law, and a B.A. in Political Science from Queens College \u2013 CUNY.<\/p><\/div>

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                  Morgan Drake<\/h2>

                  Clinical Teaching Fellow<\/span><\/p>

                  Morgan Drake is a Clinical Teaching Fellow at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program. She supervises and trains students in the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic and in the Crimmigration Clinic. She also supervises the HLS Immigration Project (HIP), a student-practice organization focused on immigration-related community engagement efforts and advocacy. Morgan was previously a Litigation Attorney and Equal Justice Works Fellow at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC), where she protected the due process rights of detained noncitizens through appellate representation at the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and federal courts. During her two-year Equal Justice Works Fellowship, Morgan did not lose a single case before the BIA. Morgan holds a J.D. From DePaul University College of Law (COL), where, through DePaul COL\u2019s International Human Rights Law Institute, she co-presented an amicus brief to the Inter-American Court of Human Rights advocating for differentiated approaches for particularly vulnerable populations subject to detention throughout the Americas. Prior to law school, Morgan worked with detained unaccompanied minors as a paralegal and DOJ-Accredited Representative on NIJC\u2019s Children\u2019s Protection Project. She holds a B.A. in Anthropology and Spanish from Augustana College.<\/p><\/div>

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