Program

• Introduction: Guillermo Vasquez de Velasco, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, DePaul University
  
• Reverend Guillermo Campuzano, C.M., Vice President of Mission and Ministry, DePaul University
  

• Introduction: Dean Jennifer Rosato-Perea, Dean of the College of Law, DePaul University
  
• Hiroshi Motomura, Susan Westerberg Prager Distinguished Professor of Law and Faculty Co-Director, Center for Immigration Law and Policy, UCLA School of Law
  

• Chair: Sioban Albiol, Director, Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic, DePaul University
  
• Melineh Kano, Executive Director, RefugeeOne
• Br. Michael Gosch, CSV, Co-founder, Viator House of Hospitality
• Jessica Alaniz, Associate Director, Bethany House of Hospitality
• Ruth Lopez-McCarthy, Senior Immigration Fellow, Illinois Department of Human Services
  

• Chair: Judge James R. Fujimoto, Ret.
  
• Michael Kasprzynski, Assistant State’s Attorney, Immigration Policy and Legal Advisor, Cook County States’s Attorney’s Office
• Nathaniel Damren, Immigration Unit Attorney, Office of the Cook County Public Defender

• Chair: Professor Juan Mora-Torres, Associate Professor, Department of History, DePaul University
  
• Nubia Willman, Director, Office of New Americans, City of Chicago
• Karyn L. Bass Ehler, Assistant Cheif Deputy Attorney General for the Illinois Attorney General
• Suzanne Akhras Sahloul, Founder and Executive Director, Syrian Community Network

• DePaul Migration Advocates (DMA) Video
  
• Introduction: Margaret Storey, Associate Dean, College of LAS, DePaul University
  
• Erika Lee, Regents Professor and Director, Immigration History Research Center, University of Minnesota
  

Community Partners Conversation (invited session): Assessing Capacity, Creating Opportunity (Suite 8011)

• Chair: Kathleen Arnold, Director, Refugee and Force Migration Studies, DePaul University
  
• Fred Tsao, Senoir Policy Counsel, Illinois Coalition of Immigrant and Refugee Rights
• Sister JoAnn Persch, RSM, Sisters of Mercy
• Ruben Loyo, Associate Director – Detention Project, National Immigrant Justice Center of Heartland Alliance

• Chair: Maria Ferrera, Associate Professor, Masters of Social Work Program and Co-Director, Center for Community Health Equity, DePaul University and Rush University
  
• Anne Saw, Associate Professor, Department of Psychology, DePaul University
• Fernando De Maio, Professor, Department of Sociology, DePaul University, and Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, American Medical Association
• Minal Giri, Medical Director, Melrose Park Pediatrics and Chair, Refugee Immigrant Child Health Initiative

• Chair: Shailja Sharma, Professor and Chair of International Studies, Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, DePaul University
  
• Sabina Shaikh, Director, Program on Global Environment, Associate Senior Instructional Professor, Environmental & Urban Studies, University of Chicago
• Barbara Willard, Associate Professor, Communication Studies, DePaul University
• Craig Mousin, University Ombuds, Adjunct Faculty, College of Law and Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, DePaul University

• Introduction: Craig Mousin, University Ombuds, Adjunct Faculty, College of Law and Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, DePaul University
  
• Donald M. Kerwin Jr., Executive Director of the Center for Migration Studies