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Susan Girardo Roy has an immigration law practice focusing the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She graduated cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center and began her legal career through the DOJ Attorney General Honors Program, at the Executive Office of Immigration Review, Board of Immigration Appeals. She then became an Assistant Chief Counsel for the INS, specializing in complex asylum, citizenship, and criminal immigration cases. She was later appointed to be an Immigration Judge, a position she held for two years. Now that Susan has a private practice, she uses her considerable immigration expertise to help people navigate their way through the complex and often confusing U.S. immigration laws.
Jennie Guilfoyle is the Deputy Director of Programs for the Immigration Justice Campaign at the American Immigration Council. Before joining the Council, she spent four years as an Attorney Adviser at the State Department in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, working on issues ranging from citizenship to intercountry adoption. Prior to that, she worked for many years as a Senior Training Attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, designing and leading in-person and online trainings on a wide range of immigration law topics. She also worked at Church World Service, where she trained refugee resettlement programs on immigration law and program management. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the New York Association for New Americans, where she represented asylum and VAWA applicants. She holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law, and a B.A. in English from Harvard College. https://www.
Jennifer Babaie is a Staff Attorney in IRAP’s legal department. She previously worked for the Open Society Justice Initiative as a Litigation Fellow providing litigation support on cases before the European Court of Human Rights and the Committee Against Torture. She also served as a judicial clerk and attorney advisor for a U.S. immigration court in Washington State where she advised judges adjudicating asylum claims, claims under the Convention Against Torture, and on credibility issues. Jennifer received a J.D. and M.A. in International Law and Organizations from George Washington University. During law school she spent a year working with the U.N. International Law Commission developing research on states duties to prevent and prosecute crimes against humanity. Before law school, she worked as a refugee resettlement case manager with the International Rescue Committee in San Jose, California. https://refugeerights.org/our-
Zaid Hydari received a B.A. in History and Government from the University of Texas at Austin, and a law degree from our very own Fordham University School of Law. Zaid is the Executive Director and co-founder of the Refugee Solidarity Network (RSN), a US-based non-profit that works to protect the rights of people uprooted from their homes and strengthens the communities where they seek safety. At RSN Zaid manages a US-based team working in partnership with advocates and stakeholders in host countries abroad to develop national capacity and advance legal frameworks that uphold human rights. Prior to RSN, Zaid spent four years based in Istanbul where he worked with a national human rights NGO, an opportunity first made possible by the James E. Tolan International Human Rights Law Fellowship through the Leitner Center for International Law and Justice. https://www.fordham.edu/info/
