Presentations & Publications
“Asylum-seekers should be allowed to work,” Opinion piece, Chicago Tribune, (June 19, 2023)
“Fluid Dynamics—Water, Rights, and Art in the Body Politic,” (co-author), The Portable Gray, Vol. 5, No. 1, Spring 2022, Univ. of Chicago
“Why Must Central American Asylum Seekers Risk Their Lives to Reach the US? There is an Alternative.” Just Security, online journal, New York University, April 19, 2021
“Whistleblower: DHS Suppressed Reports on Central America,” Just Security, online journal, New York University, September 16, 2020
“Pandemic as Pretext: Trump initiatives against asylum seekers,” Notas Sobre Migracion y Desigualdades. Notes on Migration and Inequality, Colegio de Mexico, July 2020
“The Virtual Wall: Mexico, Part 1,” “Safe Third Country Agreements with Guatemala and Mexico would be unlawful;” “Blocking or Aiding Asylum Seekers: the U.S Canada Agreement;” and “Questions Surround Secretive U.S.- Guatemala Agreement,” series, Just Security, online journal, New York University, July 2019; February 2020
“Mexican Asylum Seekers and the Convention Against Torture,” (chapter), in Anaya, Alejandro & Barbara Frey, Eds. Mexico’s Human Rights Crisis, (Univ. of Pennsylvania Press) 2018
“Carta a AMLO sobre los derechos de migrantes en el EU,” with Congressman Jesus Garcia, La Jornada, 9 de julio 2018
“La protección consular mexicana ante la administración Trump: Recomendaciones de acción inmediata,” with Jorge Schiavon, Documentos de Política Migratoria, Colegio de México/ CIDE/ UNAM, April 2018
“Mexico ante las iniciativas en migración del Presidente Biden, Colegio de Mexico, Seminario Migracion, Desigualdad y Política Publica, Mexico City, (May 24, 2023)
“Biden Administration Migration Policies: Back to the Future?” Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Económica (CIDE), Mexico City, September 13, 2022
“Migración y los derechos humanos en América del Norte,” Universidad Católica Loja de Perú, II Congreso Internacional: Crisis y Migración, Conference Keynote, July 8, 2022 (Zoom)
“La politica migratoria hacia los flujos de refugiados hoy en día,” Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, SUDIMER Diplomado, May 24, 2022 (Zoom)
“The legal framework of today’s immigration policy,” National Council of Jewish Women, Chicago – Lecture: (Zoom) May 23, 2022
“Roe v. Wade: Then & Now,” panel moderator May 21, 2022 University of Chicago, Alumni Weekend
“Contemporary Asylum Problems,” University of California, Berkeley, Introduction to Human Rights lecture, Mar. 17, 2022
“Refugee Resettlement Now,” Congregation K.A.M.-Isaiah Israel, Chicago, Feb. 27, 2022
“How U.S. immigration law was responsible for Holocaust deaths: My family’s story,” Chicago-wide Yom HaShoah Virtual Memorial, April 7, 2021 (Zoom)
“Mexico: Mas alla de la frontera/ What U.S. lawyers need to know,” American Immigration Lawyers Association, National Fall Conference, December 17, 2020 (Zoom)
“Pandemia como pretexto,” Seminar on Migration and Inequality, Colegio de Mexico, June 16, 2020 (Zoom)
“La politica hacia refugiados de la administración Trump frente al COVID,” Dialogo Regional Estrategico, Sin Fronteras y ITAM, June 11, 2020 (Zoom)
Commentator, book panel, Refuge Beyond Reach, (David FitzGerald, Oxford University Press), Social Science Historical Association, Chicago, November 22, 2019
“La politica migratoria de Trump y las implicaciones para las mujeres migrantes,” Encuentro sobre Mujeres Migrantes, Consul General of Mexico, Chicago, October 16, 2019
“¿Qué son los acuerdos de “Tercer país seguro” y qué implicaciones tendría uno para México?” Seminario de Migracion, Desigualdad, y Politicas Publicas, Colegio de Mexico, 11 Sept 2019
“The Fragility of Human Rights,” Harper Lecture, University of Chicago Alumni Association, San Francisco, California, April 7, 2019
“Human rights violations, protection gaps, and the State;” chief conference organizer, New Drivers of Migration, University of Chicago, March 10-12, 2019