DONNA J BLEVINS, JD, MPP, Board Member and of Counsel to WOB Donna Blevins is a long time resident of Austin and former lobbyist on issues of equity in public education in the State of Texas. She is a licensed attorney in Texas who earned her law degree from...
DR. JOSEFINA CASTILLO: “As a sociologist and as a woman, I’ve always been concerned with issues that address social and gender equality. Also my faith has always influenced my personal stance and beliefs in non-violent conflict transformation. These factors have...
ELVIA ROSALES ARRIOLA is a Latina, feminist critical legal theorist. She has a JD from UC Berkeley and an MA in American History from NYU. She is a former ACLU Karpatkin Fellow (1983-84) and Assistant Attorney General in the Civil Rights Bureau of the New York State...
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR SARA PHALEN is based in West Chicago, Illinois. She first connected to Women on the Border in 2005 on an NIU law student delegation as part of a course on women and globalization designed by then director and professor Arriola. She became a Board...
COVID-19 As a Threat to Immigrants In Detention In late March, 2020 an immigration jail detainee tested positive for the deadly Corona Virus (COVID-19) at a New Jersey jail. Shortly following this confirmed case the ACLU filed a lawsuit on behalf of immigrants in...
COMMENTARY: The border, migrant laborers, the maquiladoras and now ICE jails and deportation. Why hasn’t the discourse on immigration reform ever taken into account how NAFTA produced waves of migration to the U.S.? Or how CAFTA created maquiladora jobs but did...
