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SOLIDARITYSafe Haven Awards 2017
Fried Frankis proud to support
IMMIGRATION EQUALITY and joins in congratulating the
2017 Safe Haven Honorees
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New York | Washington DC | London | Paris | Frankfurt
SAFEHAVENAWARDS 2017
MAY 18 / NYC
6:30 WELCOME COCKTAIL RECEPTION
8:00 AWARDS CEREMONY
PRO BONO HONOREES Kirkland & Ellis LLP McCarter & English LLP Morgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLP GLOBAL VISION HONOREE Patrick Machado
9:00 DESSERT RECEPTION
10:00 EVENT CONCLUDES
(212) 714-2904ImmigrationEquality.org
The Safe Haven Awards are jointly hosted by Immigration Equality and Immigration Equality Action Fund. This year’s Registration Volunteers are members of Cheer New York.
CHAMPION / $25,000
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
DEFENDER / $15,000
Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver, & Jacobson LLPLatham & Watkins LLPPaul, Hastings, Janofsky & Walker LLPRopes & Gray LLPSullivan & Cromwell LLPVedder Price P.C.
ADVOCATE / $10,000
Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer & Feld LLP Fragomen WorldwideHolland & Knight LLPKasowitz, Benson, Torres & Friedman LLPKramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP McCarter & English LLPMcDermott Will & Emery LLPMorgan, Lewis, & Bockius LLPPaul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Sidley Austin LLPSkadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLPWhite & Case
CITIZEN / $5,000
Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer LLPBakerHostetlerBoies, Schiller & Flexner LLPCadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLPClifford Chance LLPDavis, Polk & Wardwell LLP Debevoise & Plimpton LLPDLA Piper Hogan Lovells US LLPHughes, Hubbard & Reed LLPKelley Drye & Warren LLP Ogilvy & MatherProskauer Rose LLPSimpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP
BEVERAGE SPONSOR
Reyka Vodka
HOST COMMITTEE
CO-CHAIRS
Jamie DrakeDeborah H. Renner
DEFENDER / $10,000
Jamie DrakeJo Chen* & James Brown
ADVOCATE / $5,000
BarclaysJeffrey A. SchoenfeldJoseph Loy* & Michael KaveyNavin Manglani* & Navin Dargani
CITIZEN $2,500
Alan Flippen* & Joey JuanFish & Richardson Jennifer Colyer* & Albert Shemmy MishaanKing & Spalding LLPN. Paul Coyle* & James LaineyRandy Feuerstein* & Laura Goldstein
GREEN CARD $1,100
Aaron C. MorrisAlbert ChenAllen & Overy Deborah H. RennerEdward Sadtler Heidi Schmid* & Dr. Tu HuynhJames Steindecker & Chris BurneyJordan Backman & Christopher RosekransJoseph Landau & Joseph FitzgeraldKaren & Neil KaveyMarilyn MishaanMark Jones & Andrew TagliabueMichael Patrick & Carol Sedwick Rachel B. Tiven & Seth M. MarninShearman & SterlingSteven Klapisch
*denotes member of the Board of Directors
OUR SPONSORS
Dear Friends,
Welcome to the 2017 Safe Haven Awards! Thank you so much for supporting Immigration Equality’s lifesaving work. You are a vital part of the ongoing protections we provide to thousands of LGBTQ and HIV-positive individuals and families each year.
Tonight, we unite to celebrate our victories over the last 12 months, and to recommit ourselves to fighting the battles that are certain to come. Since November, Immigration Equality has been preparing for war with an Administration that has worked from its inception to target our community. The promises that the President made during his campaign to attack immigrants and to undermine LGBTQ and HIV-positive people are now coming to fruition.
On behalf of Immigration Equality’s Board of Directors and staff, I commit every ounce of our substantial will to protecting and supporting immigrants now, and for the next four years. Every day, we will work to uplift, to empower, and to defend our community. It is our mission, our duty, and our passionate promise.
We could not do this without you. Whether you have supported us financially, provided free legal services to one of our clients, or marched with us in protest, thank you! Because of you, we will always be here to ensure that LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants are treated fairly and humanely.
YEAR IN REVIEW
Aaron C. Morris Executive Director
JAMIE DRAKE CO-FOUNDER, DRAKE/ANDERSON
Jamie Drake, co-founder of Drake/Anderson, brings over 30 years of his singular, exuberant design sensibility to this newly established multidisciplinary interior design partnership. Arguably the foremost colorist of our day, he distills his vast knowledge of periods and styles with a discriminatingly modern connoisseurship, creating environments that are both glamorous and eloquent, yet always interpreted through the unique prism of each client and assembled with a sense of contemporary comfort. Drake’s work has been featured in virtually every design publication of note, including ELLE DECOR, House Beautiful, Interior Design and Architectural Digest. Extremely active in various causes, Drake currently serves as chair of The Alpha Workshops, where he also has been a board member for many years. He is a recipient of a Partnership for the Homeless Director’s Award and is a longtime supporter of Housing Works, for which he also serves as chair. Jamie has been a generous supporter of Immigration Equality for twelve years.
DEBORAH H. RENNER PARTNER, BAKERHOSTETLER
Deborah Renner leads BakerHostetler’s class action practice in New York and is a founder and former editor of BakerHostetler’s Class Action Lawsuit Defense blog. She also serves as the pro bono coordinator for the New York office and is on the firm’s Diversity Committee.
Deborah focuses her practice on complex commercial litigation, including the defense of consumer fraud, data breach, insurance, Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) and securities class actions. Deborah has successfully defended numerous companies in nationwide, multidistrict and state class actions. She was recently elected to the American Law Institute and the American Bar Foundation. In her pro bono work, Deborah has been a champion of LGBTQ rights, working on numerous asylum cases referred by Immigration Equality as well as representing more than 50 companies in an amicus brief before the U.S. Supreme Court in Gloucester Co. School Bd. v. Grimm, arguing in favor of the rights of transgender students.
WELCOME FROM CO-CHAIRS
Million Dollar FirmsDONATED OVER $1 MILLION IN FREE LEGAL SERVICES IN 2016
Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP
Hughes, Hubbard & Reed LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Skadden Arps Slate Meagher & Flom LLP
Gold Star FirmsACCEPTED FIVE OR MORE CASES IN 2016
Akerman LLP
Bank of America
Debevoise & Plimpton LLP
Dechert LLP
Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP
Kirkland & Ellis LLP
Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP
Manatt, Phelps & Phillips LLP
Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP
Norton Rose Fulbright
O’Melveny & Myers LLP
Proskauer Rose LLP
Ropes & Gray LLP
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
KIRKLAND & ELLIS LLP Kirkland & Ellis LLP has been running its firmwide LGBT Asylum Project in partnership with Immigration Equality since 2009, taking on more cases and devoting more attorney hours each year. The LGBT Asylum Project now introduces Immigration Equality’s work to all incoming associates and summer associates, and provides in-house trainings. In 2016, the firm worked on 17 cases on referral from Immigration Equality, nine of which were opened that year.
Aaron D. Resetarits, Alan Rabinowitz, Allie Strang, Arlene J. Ortiz-Leytte, Ashley Borom, Aulden Burcher-DuPont, Craig William Durrant, David S. Flugman, Dmitriy Tishyevich, Edward H. Sadtler, Elliot C. Harvey Schatmeier, Emma Raviv, Hayden Bui, Ian R. Conner, Jaye Kasper, Jennifer Basch, Jon R. Carter, Jordan Romanoff, Joseph A. Loy, Justin You Zhou, Keith Kobylka, Kristin Leighton, Laura Keay, Mark C. McLennan, Peter B. Silverman, Rachael J. Morgan, Rhea Ghosh, Saunak Desai, Shanti E. Sadtler, Terence Y. Leong, Thomas Matthew, Wesley Lewis, Zahreen Ghaznavi
MCCARTER & ENGLISH, LLP In 2016, McCarter & English, LLP took on several urgent cases from Immigration Equality. One of these was a challenging Third Circuit appeal for a detained client in constant danger of removal that has kept this zealous team busy ever since. In addition, in 2016, the firm provided valuable legal advice to Immigration Equality’s detained transgender clients. Amanda Dumville, Beth Monahan, Katie Lynn Taylor, Natalie Watson, Nicholas Insua, Michele Vanderstreet, Michelle Movahed, Onome Adejemilua, Scott Weingart, Simone Wilson-Brito, Veronica Montagna
HONOREES
Immigration Equality and the
2017 Safe Haven Awards
Latham & Watkins is proud to support
We join in recognizing tonight’s honorees and winners for their devotion to lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV postive immigrants’ rights.
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HONOREES
MORGAN, LEWIS & BOCKIUS LLP Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP has been a committed partner to Immigration Equality since 2015, taking on increasingly complex asylum cases. In 2016, the firm opened seven new cases on referral from Immigration Equality, including a Ninth Circuit appeal, and worked on 15 cases altogether. The firm’s New York office piloted a program to match first-year associates with asylum cases from Immigration Equality.
Alexandra Good, Anna Goldenhersh, Annie Heiss, Arcangelo Cella, Ari Selman, Ariel Gursky, Ashley Hale, Ben Indek, Blair Broser, Brian Clement, Christine Lombardo, Chuka Ugwu-Oju, Daniel Carmeli, David Monteiro, Elizabeth Buechner, Elizabeth Lee, Greg Christianson, Heather Dorsey, Hilary Lewis, John Hreno, Jonathan Levy, Kenneth Schacter, Marcus Marsh, Marlee Myers, Mary Gail Gearns, Matthew Ladd, Megan Whisler, Michael Cumming, Nathan Shapiro, Peter Neger, Rachel Strong, Robert Thompson, Simon Chang, Stephanie Schuster, Steven Brody, Timothy Desieno, Tyler Probst, Zoe Phillips
PATRICK MACHADO Pat has been one of Immigration Equality’s most generous supporters for nine years. Last year, Pat’s matching gift challenge helped secure more than 350 new donors, who contributed $150,000 in less than two months.
Pat currently serves as a board member of Adverum Biotechnologies, Inc., a leading gene therapy company advancing novel medicines to address unmet needs in serious rare and ocular diseases. Pat has 20 years of experience with biopharmaceutical companies leading finance, business develop-ment, and legal functions. In addition to being a financial and legal expert, he has a broad business background. Pat was a co-founder of Medivation, Inc. and has served as its Chief Business Officer, its Chief Financial Officer, and as a member of its board of directors. From 1998 to 2001, Pat worked with ProDuct Health, Inc. as Senior Vice President, CFO and earlier as General Counsel. Upon ProDuct Health’s acquisition by Cytyc Corporation, he served as a consultant to Cytyc to assist with transitional matters from 2001 to 2002. Earlier in his career Pat worked for Morrison & Foerster LLP, and for the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court. Currently, Pat serves as a member of the board of directors at Armaron Bio, Chimerix, Inc., Inotek Pharmaceuticals Corporation, Roivant Sciences, and SCYNEXIS, Inc.
Pat received a J.D. from Harvard Law School and a B.A. and B.S. in German and Economics, respectively, from Santa Clara University.
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CLIENT SPEAKERS
EDY ESTRADA
Edy is a gay man from Guatemala who fled to the United States in 2009 after years of abuse based on his sexual orientation. In Guatemala, he feared that he would be attacked by the government and by powerful gangs, both of which target LGBTQ people. For two long years after arriving in the United States, Edy lived in constant fear of being deported. Then, in 2011, he found Immigration Equality. Edy fought for asylum for nearly four years, securing safety in 2015. Last year, he obtained his green card. Today, he lives happily in New York and works as a customer service agent at JFK international airport.
SANDY FLOR VIRUEL
Sandy is a transgender woman from Mexico. She fled to the United States in 1995 to escape mistreatment based on her gender identity. For more than a decade, Sandy worked at a non-profit in Staten Island to support other transgender women in need of food, clothing, and shelter. Throughout her time in the U.S., she has mentored many transgender youth and worked as a vocal activist within the trans community. In 2009, Sandy asked Immigration Equality to help her apply for asylum. Two years later, her claim was granted. Today, Sandy continues her work in Staten Island. Her application for U.S. citizenship is currently pending.
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MASHA GESSENMasha Gessen is a journalist and the author of ten books of nonfiction, most recently The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia, to be published in October 2017. She is also the author of the national bestseller The Man Without a Face: The Unlikely Rise of Vladimir Putin (2012). She is a contributing opinion writer to The New York Times and a frequent contributor to The New York Review of Books, among other publications. She has received numerous awards, including a 2017 Guggenheim Fellowship, a Carnegie Millennial Fellowship (2015-2016), a Nieman Fellowship (2003-2004), and the 2017 Overseas Press Club Award for Best Commentary. She serves as vice-president of PEN America.
Masha was born in Moscow and immigrated to the U.S. with her family in 1981, at the age of 14. She returned to Moscow as a correspondent ten years later and stayed, becoming a Russian-language journalist in addition to her work for American magazines. She re-immigrated to the U.S. in 2013, after her family was targeted by Putin’s antigay campaign.
Shortly thereafter, Masha approached Immigration Equality for help to secure family reunification benefits for her wife and son to join her in the U.S. Once the immigration petitions were granted, the family reunited in New York.
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Holland & Knight is proud to support Immigration Equality.
We salute the 2017 Safe Haven Award honorees for their dedication to advocating for LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants, bi-national couples and their families.
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About Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP is a national law firm primarily focusing on complex commercial litigation.
The firm has offices in New York, Washington, DC, Silicon Valley, Los Angeles, Houston, Atlanta, San Francisco, Miami, and Newark.
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Kasowitz Benson Torres LLP
is proud to sponsor the
Safe Haven Awards 2017and salutes the hard work of
Immigration Equalityand its dedication to fighting for
LGBTQ immigration rights
Kramer Levinis proud to be an
ongoing partner in
Immigration Equality’simportant work,
having obtained asylum
for more than 30
Immigration Equality clients.
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Proud to be part of the solution.Manatt proudly supports the
Immigration Equality 2017 Safe Haven Awards.
IMPACT WORK
Today, we find ourselves on the frontlines of a battle for human rights in America. Now more than ever, we must be strategic and creative about how to protect and empower LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants.
Immigration Equality provides free legal services to LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants living at or below the poverty line. In fact, our legal services program is bigger than ever before. Today, we are directly representing over 680 individuals and families across the United States. At the same time, we give free legal advice to thousands of people every year throughout the United States and abroad. Together with our pro bono partners, we ensure that families can stay together and that asylum-seekers have a safe place to call home. Even as the Administration increases its attacks on our community, we have maintained a 99% success rate.
Only days after his inauguration, the President announced three remarkably xenophobic Executive Orders. Since then, Immigration Equality has been working around the clock to fight the Orders and to inform LGBTQ and HIV-positive people of the new dangers they face. We are also in close collaboration with key members of Congress who have actively engaged in protecting individual clients, and with former leaders of the Obama administration to develop creative methods to prevent agencies from undoing the progress it took us years to achieve. And, as the current administration targets our community, we are invigorating the press to hold the government accountable and to educate the public on how to stay safe.
Immigration Equality has long been active in appellate courts, and we still are today. In January, members of our Board and staff filed our opposition to the Muslim and Refugee Ban in district court. In April, with the help of Skadden, Arps, we filed an amicus curiae brief in the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals describing how the Ban disproportionally hurts LGBTQ families and refugees. Over the course of the next four years, we will continue to identify as many opportunities as we can to ensure the justice of LGBTQ and HIV-positive immigrants in the courts. We must protect basic rights: like the right to counsel, equality for same-sex couples, and liberation for transgender immigrants in deplorable detention conditions.
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victories to date current clients
OUR WORK
950+ASYLUM AND FAMILY REUNIFICATION
CURRENT CLIENTS BY REGION
PRO BONO NETWORK
115+ $23 million
680+
law firms, including 150+ legal offices nationwide
in free legal services in 2016
Our pro bono partners donated over
We support
16%
19%26%
31%
31%
40%
4%
5%
Caribbean
Foundations
Middle East/North Africa
Special Events
26%
37%
1%
16%
19%
16%
3%
2%
Latin America
Individuals
Other
Sub-Saharan Africa
Europe/Central Asia
Law Firms
Asia
Corporate Gifts
2016 REVENUE
Foundations $ 747,439 40%
Individual Contributions $ 702,504 37%
Law Firms $ 292,000 16%
Special Events $ 104,025 5%
Corporate Gifts $ 46,728 2%
TOTAL INCOME* $ 1,896,443
40%
37%
16%
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OUR BOARD
Jo Chen
Jennifer Colyer
N. Paul Coyle
Randy Feuerstein Chair
Alan Flippen Secretary
Jessica Klein
Joseph Loy
Navin Manglani Treasurer
Tanisha Massie
David Mooney
Heidi Schmid
OUR STAFF
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T.J. Berardo Foundation Relations Manager
Jennifer Carrel Operations Director
Fabiola Davila Asylum Paralegal
Pamela Denzer Client Programs Director
Bryan Deschamps Development Assistant
Piibe Jogi Staff Attorney, Pro Bono Program
Matthew Johnson Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow
Aaron C. Morris Executive Director
Sophia Rehm Asylum Paralegal
Laura Sofia Rodriguez Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow
Yleana Roman Staff Attorney, Pro Bono Program
Im Senephimmachack Development Director
Jackie Yodashkin Public Affairs Director
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