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SUMMARY:Annual Business & Professional Women's Presentation Featuring Canal Alliance's Joana Castro Simonini
DESCRIPTION:Please join MCWL for our annual Business and Professional Women’s Presentation\,\nwhich will be held as a lunchtime Zoom event this year. This year’s featured speaker will\nbe Joana Castro Simonini\, Managing Attorney at Canal Alliance.  Joana will be speaking\nabout Canal Alliance’s critical work breaking the cycle of poverty for Latino immigrants\nand their families in Marin\, including their immigration legal services for unaccompanied\nminors and other vulnerable groups\, as well as her own experiences as a woman and\nmother in the legal profession. \nWhile this is a free event\, we invite attendees to donate directly to Canal Alliance to\nsupport their critical work and services: https://canalalliance.org/get-involved/donate/ \nJoana earned her B.A. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, majoring in History\, in\n2002 and her J.D. from the University of California\, Hastings College of the Law in 2008.\nDuring law school\, she worked as an intern and clinical student at Canal Alliance focusing\non U Visa cases. She also worked as a fellow\, clinical student and later research assistant\nat the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies at Hastings where she gained extensive\nexperience in asylum law. After law school\, and prior to joining Canal Alliance\, Joana was\nan intern at the International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia in The Hague\nand worked as a contract attorney for a private firm in Oakland\, gaining experience in\nremoval defense. Joana joined Canal Alliance in December 2014 to assist with the influx\nof unaccompanied minors at that time. She has represented children and youth before\nEOIR\, the asylum office and in their SIJS applications. As a staff attorney\, she also\nworked on U and T Visas cases\, VAWA\, Naturalization\, DACA\, Adjustment of Status and\nTPS applications\, family petitions and consular processing. Joana became Managing\nAttorney in 2017 and directly supervises the attorneys/DOJs and oversees the\ndepartment's legal and operational strategies. Born in Brazil\, Joana is a native Portuguese\nspeaker and is fluent in Spanish and English.
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