Led by Nisha Agarwal
What is the difference between refugees, asylum seekers, immigrants and undocumented immigrants? 2) How does this impact Maine? 3) What is the organization — International Refugee Assistance Project — doing on this? and 4) What has Nisha’s own journey been in relation to migration, personally and professionally?
As Deputy Executive Director of Impact at International Refugee Assistance Project (IRAP), Nisha Agarwal oversees the departments of Policy, Communications, U.S. Litigation, Legal Knowledge and Training, Climate Displacement, and Disability Inclusion and Accessibility. Previously, Nisha served as Commissioner of the Mayor’s Office of Immigrant Affairs since the beginning of the de Blasio Administration, building landmark initiatives like IDNYC, the City’s municipal identification card, and Cities for Action, a national advocacy coalition of local elected officials. A child of immigrants from India, she became a public interest lawyer out of Harvard Law School, leading the Health Justice Program at the New York Lawyers for the Public Interest in 2006. She later was the deputy director and co-founder of the Center for Popular Democracy and the executive director of the Immigrant Justice Corps.
Music by Will Bristol