Thursday, September 29 at 12:30 in the MPR (Room 108)
WGSS Presents
The Impact of Current Immigration Law on Families
Anna Cabot -William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow, UConn School of Law
Kara Hart - Staff Attorney, Greater Hartford Legal Aid
Stephanie Ramos - Attorney, Lacroix Ramos, LLP
Anna Cabot is the William R. Davis Clinical Teaching Fellow in the Asylum and Human Rights Clinic where law students represent refugees who have fled from persecution and are seeking asylum in the United States. Professor Cabot comes to clinical teaching from a background in immigration and human rights practice. Prior to joining the UConn faculty, she was the Managing Attorney at Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso, where she represented numerous asylum-seekers before the immigration courts and handled a wide range of other immigration matters, while supervising and training attorneys, paralegals, student law clerks, and volunteers. Responding to a wide-ranging problem, she did a study of the challenges faced by Mexican asylum-seekers for the Center for Migration Studies. She also did a year-long litigation fellowship with the ACLU’s National Prison Project.
Kara Hart provides outreach to increase immigrants’ knowledge of legal rights and represents immigrant survivors of violence and sexual assault in immigration matters including Violence Against Women Act Self-Petitions, Battered Spouse Waivers and U Visas. From 1998 until 2014 she worked with the Connecticut Domestic Violence Legal Assistance Partnership Initiative, a state-wide project funded by the federal Office of Violence Against Women, and she continues to represent clients referred by area domestic violence programs. She is a member of Connecticut’s Trafficking in Persons Council and of Connecticut’s Family Violence Model Policy Governing Council. She currently serves as the Vice Chair of the Connecticut Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Kara received a B.A. from College of the Holy Cross, an M.A. from New York University in Hispanic Civilization, and a J.D. from the University of Connecticut School of Law.
Stephanie Lynn Ramos isn’t your typical attorney. As a child, she grew up in a family of 12 kids that was extremely poor. Her family was evicted from several homes, causing her family to move frequently. Her turbulent upbringing made getting her education a unique and difficult journey. Stephanie finally graduated Magna Cum Laude from the University of Connecticut in 2009 with a B.A. in Human Services and a minor in Women’s Studies and Magna Cum Laude from Pace Law School in 2014. After taking the bar exam, she worked at the Pace Community Law Practice as a legal fellow where she was able to hone her legal skills and start laying the foundation for Lacroix Ramos, LLP to launch in 2015. Stephanie now enjoys representing clients from all over the world as they immigrate to the United States with various types of family and humanitarian based visas. She feels blessed that she is able to wake up every day to a career she finds so deeply rewarding.
For more information, contact: Ingrid Semaan at ingrid.semaan@uconn.edu