Was Live Tue, Oct 24, 2023 | 11 am PT
Guest Speakers:
- Manoj Govindaiah, Managing Attorney for Immigrant Legal Defense
- Dr. Kelly Fletes, Dean of Student Services, Monterey Peninsula College
- Alonso Garcia, Senior Program Manager, Equity at Foundation for California Community Colleges
- Sabrina P, California Community College Student
Event Overview
As the decade-long legal battle over the DREAM Act and legal protection for California’s undocumented population continues, Find Your Ally (findyourally.com) offers legal lifelines for some 50,000-70,000 undocumented community college students.
Find Your Ally –offered through the Higher Education Legal Services Project – is an unprecedented state-funded effort to provide all students enrolled in the CA Community Colleges and their families with free immigration legal assistance, which includes opportunity to have their DACA fees covered. Students qualify whether full-time or part-time, taking for credit or non-credit courses, dual enrollment, and adult ed courses.
In this briefing cosponsored by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC) and the Foundation for California Community Colleges, college students, college administrators, and statewide immigrant legal service experts will discuss what services are most crucial to helping immigrants achieve the future they want and what legal challenges they face.
