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Ginger will be joining Al Otro Lado, where she will represent French-speaking African and Haitian asylum seekers detained at the Otay Mesa Detention Center in San Diego, as well individuals fighting their cases from Mexico under the Migrant Protection Protocols, also known as the Remain in Mexico program.Through impact litigation, she will defend the rights of asylum seeking individuals, children and families unlawfully denied access to the asylum system at the southern border. Ginger graduated from Harvard Law School in 2020. While in law school, she represented asylum seekers through the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic, served as co-president of the Harvard Immigration Project, and interned for a semester at the Boston Immigration Court. During her law school summers, Ginger was an intern at RAICES Texas, where she represented asylum seeking women detained at the Karnes Detention Center; and was a legal intern working on refugee resettlement at HIAS in Nairobi, Kenya. Ginger holds an M.Sc. in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies from the University of Oxford and an A.B. from the University of Michigan.

Fellowship type: Justice Catalyst

Organization: Al Otro Lado

Project name: Defending Asylum at the Southern Border