Community Educational Forum — Immigration Matters: A Conversation on Policy and Law
This community educational forum will bring together legal practitioners and community leaders to discuss the current landscape of U.S. immigration law and policy, including DHS detention practices and the broader impact of policy changes on communities. The event will feature expert panelists and offer attendees the opportunity to learn, ask questions, and engage in meaningful dialogue both in person and online.
Facilitated by Dr. Omar Ali, Dean Emeritus at UNC Greensboro and Senior Fellow at the ICRCM, the panel will include Katherine Reynolds, Director of the Humanitarian Immigration Law Clinic at Elon Law School; Abdul Omer, Immigration Staff Attorney at the Center for New North Carolinians; Heather Scavone, most recently serving as Associate Counsel in the Office of the Chief Counsel, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, at DHS; and Kathy Hinshaw, Chair of the Latino Community Coalition of Guilford.
“At a precarious time in the United States regarding immigration practices and ever-shifting policies, we are fortunate to have local partnerships to create dialogue and help educate the public,” said Dr. Ali. “Hosted at the International Civil Rights Center & Museum in downtown Greensboro, with deeply caring community leaders and experts in immigration law offering their knowledge, those who attend either in person or online will have a chance to learn, ask questions, and offer their own unique perspectives and experiences.”
Host: Dr. Omar Ali
About the Civil Rights Museum:
Animating an iconic landmark recognized across the globe, the International Civil Rights Center & Museum opened in 2010 as a comprehensive museum of the Civil Rights Movement in the United States and an innovative educational organization devoted to understanding and advancing civil and human rights in this country and the world. It commemorates the Feb. 1, 1960, beginning of sit-ins at a whites-only lunch counter in Greensboro, by the N.C. A&T Four college students — David Richmond, Franklin McCain, Ezell Blair Jr (now Jibreel Khazan), and Joseph McNeil — reflecting careful planning carried out with colleagues at Bennett College. Their non-violent direct action challenged the American People to make good on promises of personal equality and civic inclusion enunciated in the Constitution. The fast-spreading Sit-In Movement ignited by the Greensboro protests served as a historical inflection point, renewing the Civil Rights Movement as a whole.
Sit-In Movement, Inc., was founded in 1993 to acquire and restore the F.W. Woolworth’s site of these transformative events and to establish the Center and Museum as a monument to the bravery and initiative of visionary young advocates of full citizenship and social justice.
