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Participant BiographiesFidéle Mutwarasibo, Research and Integration Officer, Immigrant Council of Ireland(Ireland)Fidéle Mutwarasibo is currently a research and integration officer at the Immigrant Council of Ireland (ICI). Before joiningICI in 2002, Mr. Mutwarasibo worked in community development with Canal Communities Partnership and was a researcherwith the African Cultural Project. Prior to migrating to Ireland in 1995, he was a secondary school teacher, and communitydevelopment, relief, and emergency worker in Rwanda and the Democratic Republic of Congo. In March 2010, Mr.Mutwarasibo successfully defended his doctoral thesis titled “(New) Migrant Political Entrepreneurs: Overcoming Isolationand Exclusion through Creative Resistance in Ireland” at University College, Dublin. He is a founding member of the AfricaCentre and sits on advisory committees of a number of public and civil society organizations. He is a regular contributor todebates on migration and integration at national and European levels.Selected current work projects include:• Country Manager of Pathways to Work — An Employment Upgrade Training Programme for Young Immigrants, atransnational project funded by the European Commission aims to support young migrants in accessing employmentopportunities and fostering their mobility in the workplace.• Manager of Pathways to Parental Leadership, a project funded by the European Programme for Integration and Integrationaimed at encouraging and fostering migrant parents’ participation in their children’s school life.• Coordinator of Mentoring Program, a project funded by the European Fund for the Integration of Third CountryNationals, through the Office of the Minister for Integration and administered through Pobal. After a successful run ofthe pilot phase, the mentoring program was rolled out nationally in 2010, to encourage interactions between newly arrivedmigrants and members of the established community, including natives and migrants.Chris Newman, Legal Director and General Counsel, National Day Laborer OrganizingNetwork (United States)Chris Newman is the legal director and general counsel for the National Day Laborer Organizing Network (NDLON), wherehe directs legal advocacy programs for indigent immigrant day laborers throughout the United States. For the last six years,he has overseen the network’s efforts to defend day laborers’ civil and workplace rights, and has represented the network’sinterests in federal efforts to reform U.S. immigration laws. During that time, NDLON has assumed a significant leadershiprole in policy and legal discussions at the federal, state, and local level on the appropriate use of local police to enforce federalimmigration law.Mr. Newman was the recipient of an Academy of Educational Development New Voices Fellowship in 2004. Prior to joiningNDLON, he founded the Legal Clinic at El Centro Humanitario, a day labor worker center in Denver, CO. He has a bachelor’sdegree in political science from the University of Illinois at Chicago, and a Juris Doctor degree from the University of DenverCollege of Law, where he graduated with honors.Selected current work projects include:• Coordinating efforts in Arizona to respond to recent anti-immigrant legislation; Counsel on lawsuit challenging SB 1070 inFederal court.• Leading national effort to prevent local police from enforcing federal criminal immigration law.• Coordinating local legislative campaigns to ensure migrants receive full labor protections.Chinedu Onyejelem, Editor and Publisher, Metro Eireann (Ireland)Chinedu Onyejelem is the publisher of Ireland’s multicultural weekly, Metro Eireann. He is the author of News in Black andWhite, and holds a master’s degree in ethnic and racial studies from Trinity College, Dublin. Mr. Onyejelem was one of theonly six Ireland’s National Ambassadors appointed for the European Year of Intercultural Dialogue 2008. He is currently amember of the Irish Department of Foreign Affairs/NGO Standing Committee on Human Rights.Selected current work projects include:• Gospel Music Festival.• Conversations with Blackmen, a book in progress.• Metro Éireann Media and Multicultural Awards (MAMA), a recognition of the contributions of individuals andorganizations in promoting cross-cultural understanding and cooperation in Ireland.T u r k e y o n t h e M o v e : A C o u n t r y o f E m i g r a t i o n ,I m m i g r a t i o n , a n d T r a n s i t M i g r a t i o n | 35