Jennie Guilfoyle is the Legal Director at VECINA. Previously, she served as the Deputy Legal Director for the Immigration Justice Campaign at the American Immigration Council.
Before joining the Council, Jennie spent four years as an Attorney Adviser at the U.S. Department of State in the Bureau of Consular Affairs, focusing on issues such as citizenship and intercountry adoption. Earlier in her career, she worked as a Senior Training Attorney at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, where she designed and led in-person and online trainings on a variety of immigration law topics. She also worked at Church World Service, training refugee resettlement programs on immigration law and program management.
Jennie began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works fellow at the New York Association for New Americans, representing asylum and VAWA applicants. She currently resides in Washington, D
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