The Just Economy Building a Just Economy One Dollar Time, guest Sui Chung. PART 2.

Описание: Podcast: The Just Economy
Building a Just Economy One Dollar and One Vote at a Time
Host: Cornell Crews Jr., Executive Director

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Guest Speaker: Sui Chung is Executive Director of Americans for Immigrant Justice, Florida,
nonprofit immigrant defense law firm.  She is an award-winning leader of the
immigration bar.  In 2023, the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers
Guild honored Sui with the Lisa Brodyaga Award for her contributions in advancing the
rights of immigrants.  The American Immigration Lawyers Association has awarded her
three times with national awards.  During multiple terms, AILA National appointed her to
chair its national ICE and EOIR liaison committees, where she represented the interests
of over 16,000 immigration attorneys nationwide.  Additional highlights of her career
have included co-representing the lead Florida Supreme Court case addressing
immigrants’ right to effective representation in criminal proceedings;
representing arguably the most famous unaccompanied minor from the award-winning
nonfiction novel, Enrique’s Journey; leading groundbreaking court-appointed
representation of mentally incompetent immigrants; and representing AI Justice and
other organizations as amicus curiae counsel in briefing before the United States
Supreme Court.  Sui is a past president of the AILA South Florida Chapter and was
previously elected to serve a three-year term as a director of AILA National’s Board of
Governors.  She was formerly Chair of the board of directors of the American
Immigration Council, vice president of Catholic Legal Services board of directors, and a
member of the boards of Immigrants’ List PAC and Immigrants’ List Civic Action.