Contact
For general inquiries, please email [email protected]
Meet the team
PRESIDENT Adriana Diaz Mireles UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: Adriana worked in corporate immigration law and has also done pro bono work around asylum law. She wants to continue doing both! |
VICE PRESIDENT Rafael Martinez Garcia UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: Prior to law school Rafael worked in Business Immigration and he has continued to work in Business Immigration, as a Summer Law Clerk and currently as a Law Clerk. |
DIRECTOR OF COMMUNICATION Noelle Ruane UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L noelleruane@uchastings.edu Experience in the immigration field: Noelle worked in business immigration law for 5 years prior to law school, 4 of which were during the Trump administration and ignited a strong interest in immigrants rights and immigration law. Noelle’s family immigrated from Ireland during the potato famine and Armenia after the Armenian genocide. |
DIRECTOR OF ADVOCACY David Fuentes Urías UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: David immigrated to the U.S. as a child and wants to use his legal education to help immigrants and allow them to thrive in the U.S. |
TREASURER Sophia Ureta-Fulan UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: Sophia is interested in immigration defense work. Last summer, she was a Legal Intern with an immigration non-profit in SF’s Mission District called the Immigration Center for Women and Children (ICWC). There she prepared affirmative U-Visa applications for migrant families. |
EVENTS COORDINATOR
Shilpa Ann Shaju
UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L
[email protected]
Experience in the immigration field: Shilpa worked at boutique law firm for 4 years and handled VAWA, affirmative asylum, T-visa, hardship waiver, and employment based cases from start to finish.
EVENTS COORDINATOR
Shilpa Ann Shaju
UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L
[email protected]
Experience in the immigration field: Shilpa worked at boutique law firm for 4 years and handled VAWA, affirmative asylum, T-visa, hardship waiver, and employment based cases from start to finish.
DETENTION CENTER DELEGATION CHAIR
Savannah Carter UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: Savannah grew up in Southern California in a community with many Latinx and Vietnamese immigrant families. She witnessed many of her friends and colleagues experience prejudice in school, the workplace, and in interactions with the government. She is inspired to advocate for those in her community who have been targets of discrimination and racism because of their heritage or status. |
TREASURER FOR THE HSIR PRO BONO ORGANIZATION
Megan Wilhelm UC Hastings College of the Law, 2L [email protected] Experience in the immigration field: Last summer Megan worked for Al Otro Lado doing client intake for clients seeking asylum. She is interested in Immigration Law because she understands the urgency in finding safe housing and resources for everyone. |