ManoLasya Perepa serves as Policy and Practice Counsel for AILA’s Government Relations team. Her work is focused on immigration court reform. Prior to joining AILA, Ms. Perepa was at the National Immigrant Justice Center where she represented sexual assault survivors, people with diminished legal capacity, children, and other asylum seekers in removal proceedings. Additionally, she worked on the Immigration Court Helpdesk program which assists pro se respondents. Ms. Perepa also has experience filing U-Visas, VAWAs, and I-751 Waivers for survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault.
Silvia B. Gwin is an AILA member practicing in the Austin office of Ogletree Deakins. She has extensive experience with non-immigrant and immigrant visa applications, PERM applications, and U.S. permanent residency matters. She has represented Fortune 100 companies, but also assisted smaller clients and start-ups, in a diverse range of industries including technology, internet, information technology, and financial services.
Christopher D. Boom, JD, LLM, PhD, is Of Counsel at Duque Immigration Law, PLLC, where he focuses his practice on appellate removal defense and research-based visa petitions. His other publications include Beyond Persecution: A Moral Defence of Expanding Refugee Status in the International Journal of Refugee Law.
Madelyn Cox-Guerra is a recent graduate of the University of Minnesota Law School. In the last three years, Cox-Guerra has prioritized serving both her community and her fellow students. She served as a board member for the Minnesota Justice Foundation - Student Chapter throughout her three years in law school, where she raised money to fund student summer grants for public service. She also served the Detainee Rights Clinic, the Latinx Law Students Association, and the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association. She is thrilled to be published in the AILA Law Journal.
Da’Niel Rowan is a Partner in Fragomen’s Silicon Valley office. She provides counsel on all major employment-based temporary and permanent visa categories to large multinational corporations in the technology sector. Eddie Corona is an Associate at Fragomen’s Silicon Valley office, working with a variety of clients in the technology, financial and biomedical sectors on their employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant matters.
Evan Patton is a recent graduate of the Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University, where he served as Senior Editor on Pace Environmental Law Review. After passing the February 2023 bar as a New York Pro Bono Scholar, he is currently awaiting admission and looking forward to contributing to the world of immigration law.
Maria Montenegro-Bernardo is a first-generation college graduate and law student at Elisabeth Haub School of Law at Pace University. Her dream is to become an immigration lawyer and be a source of help and support for families that come to the U.S, just as her family once needed.
Amy Grenier is the Policy & Practice Counsel handling asylum and border issues for AILA’s Government Relations team. Jennifer Ibañez Whitlock is the Supervisory Policy & Practice Counsel handling enforcement and detention issues for AILA’s Government Relations team. Taylor Levy is an immigration attorney and a consultant who focuses on asylum and border issues.
Alejandro Alvarado is a second-year law student at the University of New Mexico School of Law and a staff editor of the Tribal Law Journal. Prior to law school, Alejandro was a paralegal working primarily on business immigration, family petitions, and VAWA/U visa cases. This piece should be interpreted as an introduction to some of the issues connecting Indigenous Peoples and U.S. immigration policy, and the author encourages readers to further explore topics related to the law and history of Indigenous Peoples of the Americas.
