Leadership Without Borders

Goals and Objectives

Participants will:

  • Learn how to work with and for undocumented students, individuals and community
  • Learn about statewide high impact best practices/promising practices for institutional change
  • Be able to train other professionals on their campus/school or in their community to support undocumented students
  • Develop a network of educators, professionals, and undocumented students to support in their work on campus or school

Who Should Attend

  • K-12 Teachers, Counselors and Administrators
  • 2-year & 4-year institutions
  • Admissions Directors & Staff
  • Faculty
  • Outreach & Recruitment Staff
  • College Registrars
  • Student Services/Affairs Administrators & Staff
  • Financial Aid Director & Staff
  • Community Leaders
  • Policy Makers

Schedule

The Summit is a few weeks out still; therefore, the schedule is still subject to change. Check back again later for more details!

Check In & Registration 8:00am - 9:00am
Welcome
Summit Welcome

Institutional Welcome

 9:00am - 9:30am
Hugo Garcia Villa, Leadership Without Borders—Program Manager
VP Rickey Hall, OMA&D
Keynote Address 9:35am - 10:15am
Hamdi Mohamed, Office of Immigrant & Refugee Affairs—Director
Stretching Break 10:15am - 10:30am
Concurrent Sessions:
A. Cost Free College & the Fight to Expand Employment Opportunities for Undocumented Students
B. Know Your Rights!
C. Writing Your Story Through Poetry!
D. La Bienvenida, Best Practices on Undocumented Parent Engagement		 10:30am - 11:30pm
Communities for Our Colleges
Colectiva Legal del Pueblo
Ricardo Ruiz
Marcela Pattinson
Lunch Break & Networking /Resource Fair 11:30pm - 1:00pm
Concurrent Sessions:
A. Resilience: a journey into immigration enforcement and the lives of Latinx students in Eastern Washington
B. The Bracero Program and the long history of the “Border Crisis”
C. Creating an income through an ITIN number.
D. The Right to Work and Licensing		 1:00pm - 2:00pm
Ricardo Gomez

Alina Mendez
Jhoana Avante
Carolyn Pinedo-Turnovsky
Transition Break 2:00pm - 2:15pm
Closing Keynote
A Call To Action		 2:15pm - 3:15pm
Karely Amaya, Masters of Public Policy Candidate
University of California Los Angeles