Alvaro Bedoya, founding director of Georgetown Law’s Center on Privacy & Technology and visiting professor, researches the importance of privacy for people of color, immigrants and working people.
As the tragic and difficult events have unfolded in Afghanistan in recent days and weeks, members of the Georgetown community have built on ongoing efforts to find ways to help.
Georgetown joins a new letter from the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration and Immigration and American Business Immigration Council supporting the Dream Act of 2021.
Georgetown hosted plenaries examining Universal Apostolic Preferences, Ignatian spirituality, racial justice, immigration, women in leadership and environmental justice with Jesuit university faculty, staff, administrators and board members.
McCourt School of Public Policy professors evaluate the Biden administration’s handling of the coronavirus pandemic, the economy, climate change, immigration reform and racial justice.
Heather Yu Huang (C’23) studies and works to address cultural and educational inequities, and Jennifer Martínez Sánchez (C’22) applies her studies in sociology and public health to advance immigrants’ rights.
The university praised the end of a new U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) directive that would have negatively affected its international students.
Alumnus Noobtsaa Philip Vang (MBA '16) creates Foodhini, an online restaurant that provides jobs and other opportunities for immigrant and refugee chefs.
Joanna (Foote) Williams (SFS’13), director of education and advocacy for the Kino Border Initiative (KBI), worries that the plight of migrants on the Mexican border is becoming invisible.
