Talk: It Takes a Village: One Migrant Family’s Journey to Safety [] Center for Global Justice
Event Category: All Events, Learning/Education, and Presentations/Discussions
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Monday, May 23, 20221:00pm CDT – 2:00pm EDT
Victoria Bruce, Rebecca Eichler & Careen Shannon
One day in April, a Central American family seeking asylum prepared to cross the border from Mexico to the US. Learn about their arduous journey and how dozens of dedicated advocates and humanitarians played vital roles in getting them to safety. Immigration attorneys, Rebecca Eichler and Careen Shannon are joined by award-winning documentary filmmaker, Victoria Bruce. This power house team is behind the upcoming feature-length documentary, Las Abogadas: Attorneys on the Front Lines of the Migrant Crisis.
Victoria Bruce is a Documentary Filmmaker and author with a passion for human rights and a long history of working on dramatic and sometimes dangerous non-fiction stories in Latin America…Read More
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