Virtual Training: Current Immigration Landscape and How Attorneys Can Help

Victoria is the Associate Director of Partnerships at We The Action. Victoria’s greatest passion is helping people, especially marginalized communities, although karaoke comes in at a close second. Before joining the team, she served as the Aide to Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor at the Supreme Court of the United States. Victoria is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and is a graduate of California State University, Fullerton.

Jennie Guilfoyle is the Legal Director at VECINA. She joins VECINA as the former Deputy Legal Director for the Immigration Justice Campaign at the American Immigration Council. Before joining the Council, she spent four years as an Attorney Adviser at the State Department in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, working on issues ranging from citizenship to intercountry adoption. Prior to that, she worked for many years as a Senior Training Attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, designing and leading in-person and online trainings on a wide range of immigration law topics. She also worked at Church World Service, where she trained refugee resettlement programs on immigration law and program management. She began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the New York Association for New Americans, where she represented asylum and VAWA applicants. Jennie lives in Washington, D.C.

Alex Miller is the Interim Executive Director at VECINA. She is deeply committed to the immigration justice movement and has broad experience representing asylum seekers, advocating for migrants’ access to justice, and working to amplify the impact of pro bono volunteers. After working in corporate law in New York for five years, Alex moved back to her hometown of Tucson, Arizona to work at the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, ultimately leading their Border Action Team. From there, she joined the International Rescue Committee as the Director for Asylum Seekers and Families in Arizona, managing one of the primary border shelters in the state of Arizona. More recently, she was the Director of the Immigration Justice Campaign at the American Immigration Council, where she led a team dedicated to recruiting, training, and mentoring pro bono attorneys to increase migrants’ access to counsel. Alex attended Georgetown University for undergrad and Stanford Law School. Alex has taught Refugee Law and Policy as an Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Arizona.