Board of Directors
The Board of Directors is responsible for coordinating all the efforts of the Refugee Reunification Project Fund. Members of the Board of Directors also screen grant applications.
Farrin Anello: Farrin is a Skadden fellow at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she represented asylum seekers and served as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services Clinic. Farrin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before beginning her current position, she worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York.
Amanda Edmonds: Amanda is an attorney at Ropes & Gray, LLP in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Yale Law School. At Yale, she represented asylum seekers and served as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her work with asylees who have been separated from their families convinced her of the need for the Refugee Reunification Project Fund.
Jean C. Han: Jean is an attorney at Ayuda, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., focusing on asylum and other forms of refugee relief. From 2007-2009, she was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellow at the Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Harvard Law School, where she taught and supervised students representing asylum seekers from countries all over the world. While a student at Yale Law School and Harvard College, Jean served as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic and interned at Greater Boston Legal Services.
Raquiba Huq: Raquiba is an attorney at Legal Services of New Jersey. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School, where she served as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic. At Legal Services, she continues to work with asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrant populations.
Eunice Lee: From 2009-2011, Eunice was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellow at Harvard Law School's Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Formerly, she was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, NY. Eunice received her B.A. from Stanford University with honors and distinction and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was named the 2006 Reinhardt Scholar for Public Interest Law. As a law student, Eunice was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and submissions committee editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She also served as student director of the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, student director of the Orville H. Schell Center for International Human Rights, and co-chair of the Pacific Islander/Asian/Native American Students' Association. After graduating from law school, Eunice clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Abja Midha: Abja is an attorney practicing in New York City. She is a graduate of Yale Law School where she was very active in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her experiences working with asylum applicants who could not afford to bring their families to the United States led to her interest in forming the Refugee Reunification Project Fund.
Elora Mukherjee: Elora is an attorney at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP where her practice focuses on civil rights issues. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School. While a law student, she represented asylum seekers in the Immigration Legal Services clinic and interned at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project. From 2006-2007, she served as a Karpatkin Fellow at the ACLU where she filed suit on behalf of 26 immigrant children detained under prison-like conditions at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. A landmark settlement announced in August 2007 greatly improved conditions at the facility and secured the release of these children and their parents.
The Board of Directors is responsible for coordinating all the efforts of the Refugee Reunification Project Fund. Members of the Board of Directors also screen grant applications.
Farrin Anello: Farrin is a Skadden fellow at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project. She is a graduate of Yale Law School, where she represented asylum seekers and served as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services Clinic. Farrin served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. Before beginning her current position, she worked as a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York.
Amanda Edmonds: Amanda is an attorney at Ropes & Gray, LLP in Washington, D.C. She is a graduate of Yale Law School. At Yale, she represented asylum seekers and served as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her work with asylees who have been separated from their families convinced her of the need for the Refugee Reunification Project Fund.
Jean C. Han: Jean is an attorney at Ayuda, a non-profit organization in Washington, D.C., focusing on asylum and other forms of refugee relief. From 2007-2009, she was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching & Advocacy Fellow at the Immigration and Refugee Clinic at Harvard Law School, where she taught and supervised students representing asylum seekers from countries all over the world. While a student at Yale Law School and Harvard College, Jean served as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic and interned at Greater Boston Legal Services.
Raquiba Huq: Raquiba is an attorney at Legal Services of New Jersey. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School, where she served as a student director of the Immigration Legal Services clinic. At Legal Services, she continues to work with asylum seekers and other vulnerable immigrant populations.
Eunice Lee: From 2009-2011, Eunice was the Albert M. Sacks Clinical Teaching and Advocacy Fellow at Harvard Law School's Immigration and Refugee Clinic. Formerly, she was an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Immigrants' Rights Project of the American Civil Liberties Union in New York, NY. Eunice received her B.A. from Stanford University with honors and distinction and her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she was named the 2006 Reinhardt Scholar for Public Interest Law. As a law student, Eunice was co-editor-in-chief of the Yale Human Rights and Development Law Journal and submissions committee editor of the Yale Journal of Law and Feminism. She also served as student director of the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, student director of the Orville H. Schell Center for International Human Rights, and co-chair of the Pacific Islander/Asian/Native American Students' Association. After graduating from law school, Eunice clerked for the Honorable Carlos F. Lucero of the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals.
Abja Midha: Abja is an attorney practicing in New York City. She is a graduate of Yale Law School where she was very active in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her experiences working with asylum applicants who could not afford to bring their families to the United States led to her interest in forming the Refugee Reunification Project Fund.
Elora Mukherjee: Elora is an attorney at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP where her practice focuses on civil rights issues. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School. While a law student, she represented asylum seekers in the Immigration Legal Services clinic and interned at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project. From 2006-2007, she served as a Karpatkin Fellow at the ACLU where she filed suit on behalf of 26 immigrant children detained under prison-like conditions at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. A landmark settlement announced in August 2007 greatly improved conditions at the facility and secured the release of these children and their parents.