About Us

OUR TEAM

BAI & IJDH Staff

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Mario Joseph, AV

Bai Managing Attorney

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Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq.

IJDH Co-Founder and Executive Director

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Alexandra Filippova

Senior Staff Attorney

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Steve Forester

Immigration Policy Coordinator

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Kristina Fried

Bertha Justice Fellow

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Catherine Chang

Operations Coordinator

Interns & Volunteers

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Sierra Paulsen

Legal Intern

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Edad Mercier

Legal Intern

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Ben Gerstein

Legal Intern

Board of Directors

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Brian Concannon, Jr., Esq.

IJDH Co-Founder and Executive Director

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Franciscka Lucien, MA

Director of Health Equity at the Clinton Global Initiative of the Clinton Foundation

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Irwin Stotzky, Esq

Professor of Law
at the University of Miami

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Joia Mukherjee MD, MPH

Chief Medical Officer
of Partners In Health

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Chris Geyer

Former COO

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Pamela Merchant

Nonprofit Advisor

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Nadia Ben-Youssef

Advocacy Director at Center for Constitutional Rights

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Renée Metelus

Operations Manager at Found in Translation

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Nicole Lee Bayard

Intuitive Coach, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, and Human Rights Advocate

Advisory Council

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Blaine Bookey

Co-Legal Director at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies

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Herby Duverné

Principal and CEO
of Windwalker Group

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Fran Quigley

Clinical Professor at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law

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Mary H. White, M.D.

Infectious Diseases
Physician

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Beatrice Lindstrom

Clinical Instructor in the International Human Rights Clinic at Harvard Law School

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Charlot Lucien

Scholar, Storyteller, and Visual Artist

In Remembrance of Dr. Paul Farmer

IJDH Co-Founder and Board Member