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Participant BiographiesAmy Sugimori, Executive Director, La Fuente (United States)Amy Sugimori is executive director of La Fuente, which houses the New York Civic and Long Island Civic ParticipationProjects (NYCPP/LICPP). Both projects engage new immigrant community members in civic life in New York City and onLong Island. Prior to being appointed executive director of La Fuente, Ms. Sugimori worked as an attorney for the NationalEmployment Law Project, where she provided support to community and labor organizations throughout theUnited StatesBefore that, she litigated in Texas and in the Southeast on behalf of rural and agricultural workers. Ms. Sugimori is an experton the intersection of U.S. immigration and employment law, and speaks regularly on these issues. She has published articleson immigrant worker rights, the labor market, undocumented workers, and movement building. She received a J.D. from NewYork University School of Law, where she was editor in chief of the NYU Review of Law & Social Change.Current selected projects include:• Engaging immigrant community members in the public debate around state and local budgets and their impact on accessto public facilities, including public schools, parks, and street lighting.• Providing workshops for new immigrant community members on state and federal political structures, the electoralprocess, and how these impact issues of community concern.• Building relationships between Latin American immigrant communities and African, South Asian and Middle Easterncommunity groups to work on issues of common concern, including immigration reform and public education.Aly Tandian, Assistant Professor of Sociology, Gaston Berger University (Senegal)Dr. Aly Tandian is an assistant professor of sociology at the Gaston Berger University (Saint-Louis). He obtained a Ph.D. insociology at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail 2 in 2003 for his thesis “International Migration to the Question of Identity:Redefinition of Statutes of Migrants and Women’s Changing Identities in the Middle Senegal River Valley.” Dr. Tandian isthe coordinator of the interdisciplinary Migration Studies and Research Group [www.germ.sn], associate member at theCentre d’Anthropologie, EHESS CNRS (Toulouse), scientific collaborator at the Centre of Ethnic and Migration Studies of theUniversity of Liege (Belgium) and at Grupo Estudios de Poblacion Social, Universitad de Complutence (Madrid, Spain). From2003-2006 he taught the sociology of international migration and interethnic relations at the University of Toulouse Le Mirail2. He has published numerous articles on migration and interethnic relations in subSaharan populations in France, Spain,Italy, Belgium, and Senegal. Currently, his research focuses on climate change and migration, the social protection of femaleSenegalese migrants, migration, ITCs, and transnationalism.Karen Tumlin, Managing Attorney, National Immigration Law Center (United States)Karen Tumlin, is a Managing Attorney at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC) in Los Angeles, California. Shefocuses on promoting the rights of low-income immigrants through litigation and administrative advocacy. Before joiningNILC in 2005, Ms. Tumlin clerked for a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and worked as a researchassociate at the Urban Institute, where she coauthored studies on immigration, welfare, and language access issues. She alsospent a year in Thailand, where she conducted a study on child trafficking for the U.N. International Labor Organization. Ms.Tumlin holds a juris doctor degree and a master of public policy from the University of California-Berkeley.Selected current projects include:• Challenging Arizona’s new anti-immigrant law, SB 1070, in federal district court on several constitutional grounds.• Litigation to ensure detained immigrants are able to have their day in court and are not detained in sub-standardconditions.• Pursuing administrative solutions to current immigration problems.40 | T h e T R a n s a t l a n t i c f o r u m o n M i g r a t i o n a n d I n t e g r a t i o n