Center on Domestic Violence, School of Public Affairs

LESLYE E. ORLOFF J.D will be present, Helping Immigrant Survivors: Options and Challenges in an Age of Immigration Enforcement. Ms. Orloff is the Director of the  National Immigrant Women’s Advocacy Project (NIWAP) at American University Washington College of Law whichadvocates for laws, policies and practices that enhance legal options for immigrant women and immigrant victims domestic violence, sexual assault and human trafficking. She founded and directed the Immigrant Women Program at Legal Momentum from 1999 to 2011 where she provided technical assistance, training and advocacy designed to improve immigrant women’s access to immigration benefits, the justice system, public benefits, social services and health care.  Leslye was a co-founder and co-chair of the National Network to End Violence Against Immigrant Women and was the Washington, D.C. spokesperson for that organization from 1992 through 2011 where she was active in drafting major legislation protecting immigrant victims. Ms. Orloff has written local and national training curricula, manuals, and story collections bringing immigrant women’s voices to national policy makers.

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