Direct Services
ALLIP Project Director
Staff Attorney - Immigration
Reporting to the Immigration Project Director, the Staff Attorney works directly on complex immigration cases, with a current emphasis on immigration cases dealing with victims of crimes (U, VAWA, T visas), and removal defense cases, provides technical support and capacity building to other nonprofit organizations on immigration, and staffs evening and weekend workshops. Primary duties assigned to the staff attorney include, but are not limited to, providing direct application assistance in immigration cases, providing legal representation for diverse clients with complex immigration cases before USCIS and Immigration Court, and conducting immigration trainings for other CBOs and partner agencies. This position does not have any direct reports.
Advancing Justice - LA only accepts resumes as PDF or Microsoft Word files with no macros enabled.
Staff Attorney
Staff Attorney
Community Legal Advocate - Thai
Community Legal Advocate - Chinese
Staff Attorney
Staff Attorney - Immigration Project
Matthew Toyama is a staff attorney in the immigration project at Asian Americans Advancing Justice - Los Angeles. He joined Advancing Justice-LA in January 2018 and provides removal defense services in Los Angeles and Orange counties and for persons detained throughout California.
Director, Immigration Program Administration
Angelica Peña serves as the Director of Immigration Program Administration within Direct Services. She oversees the unit's grant administration, program evaluation, and the network of immigration and citizenship partners. In addition, she leads our national citizenship capacity building portfolio of organizations providing naturalization services to immigrant communities across the country.
Pages
Our mission is to advocate for civil rights, provide legal services and education, and build coalitions to positively influence and impact Asian Americans, Native Hawaiians, and Pacific Islanders and to create a more equitable and harmonious society.