2017 MLA Annual Conference

We are pleased to welcome Michele Garnett McKenzie, Deputy Director of the Advocates for Human Rights, to present this session: Immigration and Human Rights in Minnesota. Michele Garnett McKenzie leads research, education, and advocacy efforts for The Advocates for Human Rights in areas including migration and human trafficking. As an attorney with a background representing asylum seekers and detained immigrants, and a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Michele serves on the national leadership of the Immigration Advocates Network and has also served as an adjunct clinical faculty member of William Mitchell College of Law and the University of Minnesota Law School. Her talk will serve as an introduction to the issues of human rights and immigration as they pertain to Minnesota's public libraries.