2014 Annual Report
www.supportkind.org Vision Statement
KIND serves as the leading organization for the protection of children who enter the U.S. immigration system alone and strives to ensure that no such child appears in immigration court without representation. We achieve fundamental fairness through high-quality legal representation and by advancing the child’s best interests, safety, and well-being.
KIND Annual Report 2014 2 KIND Annual Report 2014 2 Table of Contents
Letter from Board Chair Brad Smith ...... 4
Fast Facts ...... 5
Child Migration Emergency...... 6
Addressing the Due Process Crisis ...... 7
New Partnerships ...... 8
Online Action Gains New Supporters ...... 9
Public Education, Outreach and Media ...... 10
Advocacy Day ...... 11
2014 Gala — Coming Together for Children Alone ...... 12
Cesar’s Story ...... 13
Snapshot: Stories from around the Country ...... 14
Safe Return and Reintegration, and Addressing Root Causes of Child Migration...... 15
Leadership and Staff ...... 16
KIND Partners ...... 18
Foundation and Government Funders ...... 20
Financials ...... 21
KIND Annual Report 2014 3 Letter from Board Chair What a year 2014 was. More than understand how they translate protection and the precious right 68,000 children arrived at our into daily life. But we only have to to stay in the U.S. borders—alone, afraid, and listen to the stories of the children traumatized—a tenfold increase who KIND serves in partnership We still have a lot of work to do. from the average when KIND with our thousands of volunteers. The child migration emergency opened its doors in 2009. Many The children’s descriptions of all has turned into a due process of these children have faced that they have suffered, often so emergency as tens of thousands unspeakable horrors that no one painful to hear, and their desperate of these children’s cases make should have to endure, least of all hope that the U.S. will give them their way through our immigration a child. Rape, life-threatening the safety and stability they have system, with 70 percent of the attacks, kidnapping, traffcking, longed for, and most have never children unrepresented. The root the murder of loved ones—with known. For so many around the causes of their migration continue nowhere to go, and no one to go world less fortunate than ourselves, unabated, with violence wreaking to for protection. We hear of the U.S. stands for peace and havoc and tearing young lives apart. similar atrocities in far off places freedom, even to the youngest KIND will continue to do all we like Syria, Iraq, and Nigeria, and of refugees. can to close this egregious are appalled and want to help in protection gap and ensure that some way. Ironically, we are less The U.S. legal community stood out in this child migration crisis children are not sent back to harm. aware —and sometimes less I am confdent that, working outraged—about similar brutality for its extraordinary commitment to giving back and helping as no closely with all of our fercely when it is happening in countries committed partners, we will make on our back doorstep. But these one else has. With the help of our partners, KIND has generated even greater strides this year to horrors are the daily reality for transform these children’s lives. the tens of thousands of children more than $84 million in pro feeing Central America. bono services. KIND’s pro bono attorneys have been a lifeline It’s hard to comprehend the for these children, transforming statistics—Honduras, the murder their lives from daily fear and capital of the world, El Salvador uncertainty to hope. The Brad Smith close behind, and Guatemala— numbers are stark—children President and Chief Legal Offcer, all in the top fve most violent who are represented are fve Microsoft Corporation countries in the world—and times more likely to be granted
KIND Annual Report 2014 4 KIND Fast Facts 2014
9,500 Trained KIND had trained more than 9,500 lawyers by the end of 2014
$84 Million in Pro Bono Legal Services KIND has received more than 192,286 pro bono hours totaling more than $84 million in services from 2009-2014
250 Partners KIND had partnered with 250 law frms, corporate legal departments, law schools, and bar associations by the end of 2014
7,500 Referrals 7,500 children referred to KIND by the end of 2014
67 Countries KIND has worked with children from 67 countries 5 Child Migration Emergency
KIND played a pivotal role in to go north to the U.S. because them for up to two weeks. responding to the unprecedented they have family or a connection Thousands of children were unaccompanied child migration here, asylum requests by those sent to reftted military bases in emergency that exploded in May seeking refuge in other countries California, Texas, and Oklahoma 2014 and continued throughout in the region had increased 712 until sponsors who could care for the summer. The majority of the percent since 2009. them were found. children reported feeing gang violence and forced recruitment, On June 2, 2014, President When the number of arrivals with extremely disturbing Barack Obama called the record started to slow in the fall, what was accounts of abuse they had number of unaccompanied a humanitarian crisis at our border experienced or witnessed against children at our border a turned into a due process crisis in them or those close to them. They humanitarian emergency, our immigration courts. Thousands told of having nowhere to go for and the Federal Emergency of additional children fooded the safety or escape, and of police Management Agency was adjudication system in great need unable or unwilling to address the brought in to coordinate a of already scarce representation. violence which was met with response to ensure the U.S. could accommodate all the Thanks to our supporters, new and impunity. In another sign of the old, KIND was able to add more prevailing lack of security in children in hastily re-purposed military bases that were brought staff and additional resources Central America, more children around the country to help ensure under 13 years old came than ever on line to house them throughout the summer. that more children would have an before, and more girls, despite the attorney in their deportation very real chance that they would Children were turning themselves proceedings. However, despite be raped or sexually assaulted in to Border Patrol agents asking our efforts, almost 70 percent along the journey to the U.S. for protection, including hundreds of children were forced to appear The UN Refugee Agency of toddlers. Short-term border in court alone with no one to (UNHCR) found that while the holding facilities, which by law are help them. majority of those feeing decided only allowed to hold children for three days, were at times holding
70% 68,000 58% 1,000 Almost 70 percent of Over 68,000 children 58% of children At the height of the children were forced to from Central America interviewed by UNHCR emergency, more than appear in court alone with feeing violence and abuse potentially qualifed for 1,000 unaccompanied no one to help them were apprehended by the international protection children appeared at end of September 2014— and could be determined the U.S. southern three times more than to be refugees1 border in one day alone in 2013 and ten times the historical norm
1 Children on the Run, March 2014
KIND Annual Report 2014 6 Addressing the Due Process Crisis
The extraordinary rise in law frm partners. The increased unaccompanied children in volunteer resources greatly the U.S. and their need for enhanced KIND’s capacity to representation was compounded serve more children in our by the Obama Administration’s site cities. prioritization of unaccompanied children’s cases to the top of the In addition to seven new immigration court docket across staff attorneys supported by the country. The creation of these foundations and other donors, so-called “rocket dockets” in late KIND was able to bring on six summer 2014 to hasten decisions attorneys through a new in unaccompanied children’s cases Department of Justice Our partners rose to the greatly meant that children needed to representation initiative, justice increased challenge, broadening fnd attorneys as quickly as possible AmeriCorps, in partnership and deepening their commitment so they could be represented in with Equal Justice Works. We to KIND, by providing additional their hearing before the also added two new attorneys attorneys across the country. immigration judge. in Baltimore as part of the Others came forward and offered new Baltimore Representation Many did not receive their help, enabling KIND to Initiative, also funded by the their hearing notices, forge new partnerships and extend Department of Justice to unintentionally missing our reach. KIND also benefted represent unaccompanied their court date and were greatly from the generosity children at the city’s ordered deported with no of key law frm partners which immigration court. assigned associate attorneys to opportunity to tell their story. our offces for a period of time. KIND expanded its work at In a number of cases, children Two such associates joined our immigration courts in select had only a few days from the Los Angeles offce, one from cities to reach more children time they received their hearing Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe in need and began to conduct notice to their frst scheduled and one from K&L Gates, while regular screenings and legal appearance—not nearly adequate Paul Hastings provided one orientations on juvenile docket time to fnd a pro bono attorney— to our New York offce. In days in collaboration with other particularly at a time of historic need. addition, KIND added 33 new legal service providers.
California Makes History Expanding Our KIND participated in a groundbreaking meeting hosted by Geographic Reach the Attorney General of California, Kamala D. Harris, to Through our two justice AmeriCorps discuss the legal representation needs of unaccompanied fellows in Boston, KIND now provides children in the state and how to address them through direct representation to children living in: increased pro bono support. This meeting was the start of signifcant new attention by the state to • Maine the needs of unaccompanied children residing • New Hampshire in California, including a legislative initiative to support their legal representation, and • Rhode Island additional funds to reach more children in • Vermont need of attorneys in the state.
KIND Annual Report 2014 7 New Partnerships Great Response to Great Need KIND was particularly successful in College of Law and the law frms bringing in new corporate partners to Greenberg Traurig and Seyfath Shaw. KIND received a tremendous continue to create an innovative and outpouring of support at the height effective approach to pro bono. Attorneys and staff from Microsoft’s of the child migration emergency Some of these partners included legal department volunteered with from thousands of new individual Amazon, AT&T Mobility, Capital KIND Seattle’s frst Intake Clinic donors, schools, and churches. One, Chevron, Credit Suisse, as part of Microsoft’s Day of Caring. Exelon-Constellation Energy, Clinic volunteers conducted legal We were also thrilled to receive Exxon Mobil, Fred Loya Insurance intakes with children who had been support from a number of new Group, JPMorgan Chase-Corporate, released from custody as part of foundations, listed on page 20. JPMorgan Investment Bank/Global the process of matching them with We also received a portion of the Emerging Markets, McKinsey & pro bono attorneys. In addition $3 million the state of California Company, Morgan Stanley, to those who volunteered at the made available to increase Oppenheimer Funds, Signature clinic, more than 100 Microsoft representation of unaccompanied Bank, Southern California Edison, volunteers are working with KIND children in response to the large The Walt Disney Company, in a variety of ways. numbers of children being released Viacom, and Warner Brothers. in the state. KIND’s New York offce launched a new representation project in collaboration with Columbia Law School and the law frms Troutman Sanders and Paul Hastings. KIND $1,000,000 held a training for law students An anonymous donor who were then brought in to showed their support assist the legal teams at the with a generous gift frms representing unaccompanied of $1 million children. We have since replicated this project with South Texas
KIND Annual Report 2014 8 Online Action Gains New Supporters
In response to for their support. the child migration Angela, who fed emergency in spring to the US from El and summer 2014, Salvador when she MoveOn.org asked was only fve their members in a years old, made special appeal to the treacherous support KIND journey alone and children in need and was held in a of pro bono legal government shelter representation. before being released In a matter of days, to her mother in MoveOn.org raised Virginia. Angela then more than met Shanti, her KIND $102,000 from pro bono attorney, over 4,000 of their members. to one of our clients who was able who represented her throughout her to tell her story on camera and deportation proceedings, and helped This incredible contribution to thank all of the MoveOn.org team Angela gain U.S. protection. KIND also enabled us to reach out and their members who donated
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The KIND Experience
“ There are so many young people who have taught me so much—for me, being trusted with my client’s stories is such an honor. Getting to do this work is an enormous privilege—every single day that I work with immigrant children I feel this way.” – Maureen Schad Chadbourne & Parke LLP and former KIND Fellow in NY
“ These stories and situations these children come from are so horrific that we have no trouble finding someone who is willing to step in and help.” – Joe Lee Munger Tolles & Olson LLP
KIND Annual Report 2014 9 KIND in the Media
200 Media Requests KIND received more than 200 media requests for information and interviews in 2014 Public Education and Outreach Starting in the spring, KIND met KIND also testifed before the 100 articles numerous times with the White New York State Assembly. KIND was quoted or featured House, federal agencies, and in more than“ 100 articles and Congressional offces to fnd A key focus of our advocacy over 80 publications solutions that would bring as throughout the emergency much order to the migration was to ensure that a landmark fow as possible while preserving anti-traffcking bill which meaningful access to asylum contained historic protections and complementary forms of for unaccompanied children was protections available under US not weakened to enable the U.S. immigration law. KIND met with to send these children back to Vice President Joe Biden, the their countries from the border New York Times without adequate screening to Domestic Policy Council, and KIND Board Member Sonia determine if they might be eligible the National Security Council Nazario wrote an opinion editorial for U.S. protection. KIND and as part of a small group of key for The New York Times on other advocates maintained that advocates and experts. We led unaccompanied children based the Traffcking Victims Protection a briefng with Speaker John on her investigation of gang Reauthorization Act of 2008 Boehner’s Working Group on violence in Honduras Unaccompanied Children, (TVPRA), which recognizes the composed of eight Republican unique vulnerability of these members of the House of children, included the necessary Representatives, and presented at fexibility to address the child numerous other Congressional migration emergency without staff briefngs throughout the undermining the vital protections summer. Board member Sonia for unaccompanied children that National TV Nazario testifed on behalf of the law provides. Although some KIND appeared as a guest KIND before the Senate in government sought the ability on 23 national television and Committee on Foreign Relations to return the children quickly radio shows in 2014 on the root causes of the without a full screening migration. KIND staff testifed to determine if they would face before the House Progressive harm if sent back, the protections Caucus twice, presented on remained in place thanks to the unaccompanied children in several strong advocacy of KIND and Twitter followers increased by more Senate and House staff briefngs, colleague organizations. Such than 40% and Facebook Likes and helped organize a changes are still possible, and increased by 30% in 2014 congressional staff delegation to KIND continues to monitor the region to investigate the root any developments on this issue. causes of the child migration.
KIND Annual Report 2014 10 Advocacy Day 2014 KIND and Troutman Sanders Attendees stressed to kicked off our fourth annual Congressional staffers in Advocacy Day on April 1 in numerous meetings the dire Washington, DC with a welcome need for pro bono representation from the frm’s Washington, DC for unaccompanied children. Offce Managing Partner Aimee Many spoke from their experience Colby and Partner Mark representing these children and Newman, from Atlanta. explained how it would have been Participants then received an impossible for their clients to in-depth training from a panel make their case for U.S. of experts: Bill Kamela, Microsoft protection without an attorney. Policy Counsel; Lindsay Austin, They described the reasons their Senior Manager for Federal clients came to the United Affairs, Troutman Sanders States—to fee violence, Strategies; and Tom Tilton, persecution, traffcking, and Troutman Sanders Manager severe abuse—and shared some of Federal Affairs. The panelists of the children’s painful stories. explained what participants could expect at their meetings Thanks to participants, KIND on Capitol Hill and how best made new friends on Capitol Hill to use their time with the that will help us in our mission Congressional staffers to ensure to protect these uniquely their support for the protection vulnerable young immigrants. of unaccompanied children. Participants came from across the country including Georgia, Texas, South Carolina, and California.
KIND Annual Report 2014 11 2014 Gala Coming Together for Children Alone
“KIND could not be happier to celebrate our five years of success with such exemplary supporters that have shown remarkable commitment to pro bono representation and to unaccompanied children. Their assistance ensures that these children—many of whom have fled violence and persecution—have a fair chance to present their claim for U.S. protection so that they will not be returned to harm.”
—KIND President Wendy Young
Microsoft received KIND’s Ira Glass, Host and Producer of Innovation Award for co-founding This American Life, was the KIND and for the tireless support Master of Ceremonies. World- of its Executive Vice President renowned composer Philip Glass and General Counsel, Brad Smith, performed with violinist Tim Fain. who also serves as KIND’s Board Several unaccompanied children Co-Chair. KIND partner law frms who found pro bono representation Crowell & Moring, Hogan Lovells, through KIND shared their stories and Kirkland & Ellis were honored of why they left their home with KIND’s Allegiance Award for countries alone, their experiences providing thousands of hours of coming to the U.S., and their pro bono representation to hopes for the future. unaccompanied children referred to KIND. Machete Producciones, a flm company based in Mexico, received KIND’s Vision Award for KIND honored Microsoft, several its award-winning flm, La Jaula de law frm partners, and a Mexican Oro (The Golden Cage), about flm production company for their the journey of three teenagers commitment to unaccompanied from Guatemala alone to the immigrant and refugee children at United States. The flm won a top our 5th Anniversary Beneft Dinner prize at the 2013 Cannes Film Gala held April 22 at Jazz at Lincoln Festival and was honored at many Center in New York City. other flm festivals worldwide.
NASDAQ recognized KIND for the second year in a row for its work on behalf of unaccompanied children. KIND Board Members, Advisory Board NASDAQ Members, staff, and pro bono partners participated in ringing the NASDAQ Stock Market closing bell on April 22nd.
KIND Annual Report 2014 12 Cesar From Guatemala I would not be here tonight without the incredible help of my attorneys at Kirkland & Ellis, particularly Jeanne Cohn-Connor and Chanson Chang, who have been with me every step of the way. I cannot thank them enough. I was four years old when my father was killed by gangs in our community. The gang members were never arrested and still lived in our town. They started harassing me when I was very young and it never stopped. It was scary and there was no way to get away from them. We were very poor and I had to start working when I was six years old in the bean felds to support my mother and myself. It was hard because I really wanted to keep going to school even though I was working a lot. I loved school and I was happiest when I
If I am able to stay in the United States, my other goal—and my Cesar, 17 from Guatemala, dream—it sounds beautiful to say it, speaking at KIND’s 2014 Gala. would be to go to college.”
was there. I am very proud that I graduated from primary school, and even more proud that I graduated with perfect attendance! That was not easy! When I was 17, I could not stand the gang harassment any more. They were trying very hard to get me to join them and I was really afraid they were going to kill me. The journey to the United States was very hard and sometimes I did not think I would survive. I had to swim across the Rio Grande to enter the U.S. But, as you see, I made it, and with the help of Kirkland & Ellis, I am getting close to fnishing my process for legal status. I am very happy that I am going to high school. My favorite subjects are English, math, and technology. I am still working on my English. I play on my school’s soccer team and I like to do things with my local church. But my main goal right now is to graduate from high school with good grades, and if I am able to stay in the United States, my other goal - and my dream - it sounds beautiful to say it, would be to go to college.”
Scarlet, 13 from Dominican Republic, 13 Diego Carvajal her pro bono attorney from Hogan Lovells LLP, and her aunt. Snapshot: Stories from around the Country
Baltimore Newark Seattle Sixteen-year-old Ken from KIND mentored attorneys in a Microsoft pro bono attorneys New York City Honduras was facing threats case in which a 15-year-old girl helped a 15-year-old girl from KIND mentored three cases and pressure to join the many from Honduras came to the Honduras receive asylum. She handled by American Express gangs in his community. Ken US to escape threats of rape was seeking U.S. protection to in which asylum was granted. refused over and over, but the by a gang in her comminity. escape years of physical and A Zimbabwean girl gained gang members continued their The gang was known to have verbal abuse by her alcoholic asylum due to her family’s harassment. Upon receiving a kidnapped and raped a number father. The police in Honduras concern for their lives on fnal warning to submit, Ken of other girls, including her refused to intervene to help account of her father’s left for the U.S., where his sister. The girl and her sister the girl. support of an opposition party. parents were waiting for him. fed to the U.S. and she was Ken’s pro bono attorney granted asylum. helped him receive asylum.
Boston KIND’s Equal Justice Works Fellow obtained asylum for a highly Los Angeles secured traumatized 11-year-old 22 asylum grants in girl—the victim of one quarter alone, repeated sexual assaults including four children by a relative. Her who resisted gang attorney collaborated recruitment and Houston Washington, DC Nixon closely with medical violence and witnessed KIND partner Baker Botts Peabody represented a boy and mental health their siblings being killed. succeeded in gaining asylum for a who fed El Salvador at age experts and obtained 15-year-old girl from El Salvador 14 to escape persecution for compelling reports to who suffered years of severe sexual being gay and ongoing sexual help the Asylum Offce and emotional abuse by her abuse by a family member. understand the claim step-grandfather. After feeing His attorneys argued that he and the child’s her abusive home, the child was not only had a well-founded demeanor. She also left with nowhere to live and was fear of persecution through coordinated with taken advantage of by a man twice his own experiences, but also intensive psychiatric her age. He was arrested, but was because the government of El counseling to ensure the quickly released. His associates Salvador has a known pattern child could successfully then began threatening the child and practice of persecuting participate in her case. and her family, demanding that lesbian, gay, bisexual, and she leave El Salvador. transgendered individuals.
KIND Annual Report 2014 14 Safe Return and Reintegration, and Addressing Root Causes of Child Migration
Our Guatemalan Child Return international agencies to North American corridor. We and Reintegration Project encourage laws, policies, and also presented at a conference (GCRRP) continued to be practices that embrace child marking 30 years since the signing a model and one-of-a-kind in protection at their heart. of the Cartagena Agreement on the region, providing vital Refugees, which broadened reintegration assistance for KIND joined the Regional protections in the region, and children who must return home, Network of Civil Organizations at the 2014 Global Forum on either due to deportation or (RNCOM), a coalition of civil Migration and Development voluntary departure from the society organizations working to to ensure that unaccompanied United States. With our local promote the human rights of children were included in the nongovernmental partners, migrant and refugee populations migration debate among a wide including Colectivo Vida Digna, in Central and North America. range of key international we have helped more than 120 The RNCOM also serves as a stakeholders. children with family reunifcation, civil society liaison to the Regional school enrollment, counseling, Conference on Migration (RCM), Based on this work and lessons skills training, and scholarships. an intergovernmental forum of learned, KIND wrote a chapter 11 Central and North American with recommendations on best KIND helped enhance awareness countries that share information practices for the safe return and of child migration in Central and promote dialogue on reintegration of unaccompanied America among stakeholders in migration. KIND participated children as part of a the region, focusing on the in three sessions of the RCM groundbreaking report, unprecedented migration to focusing on child migration, “Human Rights, Children, underscore the need to create making new connections with a and Migration in Central and regional standards and coordinate variety of organizations with whom North America: Causes, Policies, actions to protect child migrants. we can work and share knowledge. Practices, and Challenges”, led We are working closely with key by the University of LANUS in civil society partners to develop KIND testifed at a hearing before Argentina and the Center for a regional protection framework the Inter-American Commission Gender & Refugee Studies at the and are communicating regularly on Human Rights on child University of California Hastings. with governments and migration in the Central and
Child Migration from Central America: Achieving Regional Solutions Grounded in Child Protection and Orderly Migration The U.S. government launched an in-country refugee resettlement processing program in El Salvador, Honduras, and Guatemala in December 2014 to provide some unaccompanied children with a viable alternative to the dangerous journey that they are currently making to the United States in search of safety. KIND received support to assist this processing by conducting outreach to Central American communities across the U.S. to inform them of the program, training adjudicators who will decide their cases, and providing pro bono legal support services to children seeking resettlement while still in their country of origin. KIND has partnered with the International Rescue Committee to encourage broad national participation in the U.S., and partner law frm Arnold & Porter is collaborating with KIND to establish a network of pro bono attorneys in Central America to help children through the program.
KIND Annual Report 2014 15 Leadership
Founders John Bul Dau Houston Advisory Author, Human Rights Activist Committee Angelina Jolie Carole Geithner Co-Founder and Patron Coalter Baker Clinical Social Worker, Author UNHCR Special Envoy International Republican Institute Sonia Nazario Brad Smith Keri Brown Author, Enrique’s Journey Co-Founder and Board Chair Baker Botts LLP President and Chief Legal Offcer, Kathleen Newland Catherine Burnett Microsoft Corporation Director, Migrants, Migration, and Development and Refugee South Texas Law School Board of Directors Protection Programs, Lucrecia Davis Migration Policy Institute Brad Smith, Chair Fragomen Worldwide President and Chief Legal Offcer, Ronald Schechter Irma Diaz Microsoft Corporation Partner, Arnold & Porter LLP Employment and Training Centers Pamela Passman, Treasurer Advisory Board Joy Dowdle President and CEO, CREATe.org Paul Hastings LLP Jane Ginns Lydia Tamez, Secretary Charles Foster Attorney Partner, FosterQuan, LLP FosterQuan LLP Sheppie Glass Abramowitz Bradley R. Goldman* Karen Lukin Humanitarian Issues Expert General Counsel and Chief Compliance Offcer, Palisade Capital Marathon Oil Company Maya Ajmera Management LLC Emma Mata President and CEO of Society for Seyfarth Shaw LLP Science and the Public (SSP) Ronald Gray General Counsel, International David Moyer Rima Alaily Cards, Citicorp Credit Services Inc. Chevron Assistant General Counsel, Competition Law Group, Michelle Greenberg-Kobrin Charles Munnell Microsoft Corporation Dean of Students, Columbia Immigration Lawyer (ret) University School of Law Jamie Broder Stan Perry Partner, Paul Hastings LLP Gilbert C. Hoover, IV Reed Smith LLP Vice President, General Counsel, The Aurora Cassirer Shubert Organization, Inc. Susan Sanchez Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP Exxonmobil Mary K Young Wally Christensen Consultant, The Zeughauser Group Jennifer Tomsen Former Partner, Troutman Sanders Greenberg Traurig LLP LLP (ret.) Samuel Witten** Counsel, Arnold & Porter LLP *Board and Staff who departed KIND in 2015 **Board and Staff who joined KIND in 2015
KIND Annual Report 2014 16 KIND Staff
Headquarters Team Emily Kephart** Dalia Castillo-Granados Vanessa Lucas Project Coordinator, Guatemala Staff Attorney Pro Bono Coordinating Wendy Young Return and Reintegration Project Attorney President Justine Fanarof** Field Team Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney Natalie Sullivan* Legal Services Pro Bono Coordinating Baltimore Office Los Angeles Office Juliann Bildhauer Attorney Deputy National Jennifer Jaimes** Katie Fleet** Cristina Alaniz** Legal Services Director Supervising Attorney Supervising Attorney Program Assistant for Pro Bono Programs for Pro Bono Programs Elizabeth Dallam* Seattle Office National Legal Services Director Jacqueline Bradley-Chacon Rosalind Oliver* Staff Attorney Supervising Attorney Rebekah Fletcher* Alice Sullivan Fitzgerald for Pro Bono Programs Supervising Attorney, Director of Pro Bono Lisa Fink** Children’s Program Recruitment and Training Program Assistant Audra Behne Pro Bono Coordinating Merkys I. Gómez Alison Griffith Development, Finance, Attorney Chilren’s Coordinating and Operations Equal Justice Works Attorney AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Iris Franco** Vibha Bhatia Pro Bono Coordinating Jami Colina* Cynthia Henning Finance and Operations Director Attorney Project Coordinator Equal Justice Works Ellen Jorgensen AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Teresa Gutierrez** Carolina Jimenez** Director of Public Outreach Pro Bono Coordinating Program Assistant and Strategic Development Boston Office Attorney Rosario Lopez** Laurie Carafone Melissa Galarraga** Chloe Neblina Program Coordinator Operations Manager Supervising Attorney Program Assistant for Pro Bono Programs Charity Ramsey Megan Smith** Newark Office Equal Justice Works Elizabeth Badger Development Associate AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Senior Attorney Sarah Plastino Communications Supervising Attorney Washington, DC Karen Cole for Pro Bono Programs and Public Outreach Equal Justice Works Office Adrian Ballines** Megan McKenna AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Christie Turner-Herbas Equal Justice Works Communications and Supervising Attorney for Paola Gentile Goldental AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Advocacy Director Equal Justice Works Pro Bono Programs Vicky Hernandez Cory Smith** AmeriCorps Legal Fellow Maia Kirch** Detained Program Assistant Policy Director Beth Zilberman* Program Assistant Equal Justice Works Fellow, Samantha Rumsey Aryah Somers Priya Konings** Sponsored by Microsoft Equal Justice Works Fellow, Advocacy Director Pro Bono Coordinating Corporation and The Sidley Sponsored by Greenberg Attorney Alexandra Pender Austin Foundation Traurig, LLP Communications and Elizabeth Lincoln* Sara Williamson** New York City Office Advocacy Senior Associate Program Assistant Program Assistant Wendy Wylegala Regional Program Alexandra Prokopets Houston Office Supervising Attorney Lisa Frydman** for Pro Bono Programs Staff Attorney Director of Regional Policy Liz Shields** Lindsey Buller* and Initiatives Supervising Attorney for Pro Bono Programs Program Assistant Wendy Ramirez* Project Director, Guatemala Child Jenny Regueiro* Sarah Burrows** Return and Reintegration Project Supervising Attorney Pro Bono Coordinating for Pro Bono Programs Attorney Rachel Dotson** Megan Jordi* Gender and Migration Christina Avalos Initiatives Director Paralegal Pro Bono Coordinating Attorney *Board and Staff who departed KIND in 2015 **Board and Staff who joined KIND in 2015
KIND Annual Report 2014 17 Partners
Corporate Legal Ballard Spahr Andrews & Ingersoll LLP Fried Frank Harris Shriver & Jacobson LLP Barker Epstein & Loscocco PC Friedman Kaplan Seiler & Adelman LLP Departments Bastarrika, Soto, Gonzalez & Somohano LLP Frye & Associates PLLC Amazon Baute & Tidus LLP Fulbright & Jaworski LLP American Express Bean Porter Hawkins PLLC Funk & Bolton PA AT&T Beck Redden LLP Garrity Graham Murphy Garofolo & Flinn PC AT&T Mobility Berry Appleman & Leiden LLP Gibbons PC BG North America LLC Best Best & Krieger LLP Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP CenterPoint Energy, Inc. Bingham McCutchen LLP Gimmel Weiman Ersek Blomberg & Lewis PA Chevron Blaine L Gilbert & Associates PC Global Justice Law Group PLLC Citibank Blank Rome LLP Goodwin Procter LLP Credit Suisse Boies Schiller & Flexner LLP Greenbaum Rowe Smith & Davis LLP Disney Bracewell & Guiliani LLP Greenberg Traurig LLP Energy Investors Fund Brown Rudnick LLP Hanis Irvine Prothero PLLC Exelon-Constellation Energy Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schrek LLP Harlan York and Associates Exxon Mobil Bryan Cave LLP Haynes & Boone LLP Fred Loya Insurance Group Buckley Sandler LLP Hogan Lovells LLP FTI Consulting Firm Bulman, Dunie, Burke & Feld CHTD Holland & Knight LLP GE Burns & Levinson LLP Hollingsworth LLP GE-Healthcare Division Cadwalader Wickersham & Taft LLP Hughes Hubbard & Reed LLP GE Idea Works Chadbourne & Parke LLP Hunton & Williams LLP Gen-Tech Construction Chin & Curtis LLP Husch Blackwell LLP JP Morgan Chase Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP Ideal Legal Group, Inc. Marathon Oil Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll PLLC Ilagan & Associates PC McKinsey & Company Cohn Lifand Pearlman Herrman & Knopf LLP Irell & Manella LLP Merck Cooley LLP Jackson Lewis PC Microsoft Corporation Covington & Burling LLP Jacob, Medinger & Finnegan LLP Morgan Stanley Cozen O’Connor LLP Jahos Broege and Shaheen LLP NBC Universal Crowell & Moring LLP Jeffer Mangels, Butler & Marmaro LLP Oppenheimer Funds Davis Wright & Tremaine LLP Jenner & Block LLP Procter & Gamble-Gillette DC Law Group PLLC Johnson Gallagher Magliery LLC Prudential Debevoise & Plimpton LLP Jones Day LLP Public Consulting Group Dechert LLP Joyce & Associates, PC Signature Bank Dickstein Shapiro LLP K & L Gates LLP Southern California Edison Dillard & Associates Kasowitz Benson Torres & Friedman, LLP Union Pacifc Railroad DLA Piper LLP Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP Viacom Donnelly,Conroy and Gelhaar LLP Kaye Scholer LLP Warner Brothers Dorsey & Whitney LLP Kilpatrick Townsend LLP Weeks Marine Drinker Biddle, Reath LLP King & Spalding LLP Wyndham Worldwide Drummond Woodsum & MacMahon Kirkland & Ellis LLP Corporate Legal Department Duane Morris LLP Knobbe Martens, Olson & Bear LLP Law Firms DuBoise Cary Law Group PLLC Krutcik & Georggin Dykema Gossett LLP Latham & Watkins LLP Abigail Williams& Associates Edison, McDowell & Hetherington LLP LeClairRyan LLP Adams & Reese LLP Epps Yong & Coulson LLP Legal Counsel for Youth and Children Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld Farrell Fritz PC Lichtmen & Elliot PC Alston & Bird LLP Fish & Richardson LLP Linklaters LLP Ana Jacobs & Associates Foley Hoag LLP Littler Mendelson PC Arnold & Porter LLP Foster Pepper Locke Lorde LLP Baker Botts LLP Foster Quan LLP Lowenstein Sandler LLP Baker Donelson Bearman, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy LLP MacDonald Hoague & Bayless Cladwell & Berkowitz PC Franco Law Group PC Magaletta and McCarthy PC BakerHostetler LLP Frank & Pollack LLP Maggio & Kattar PC
KIND Annual Report 2014 18 Partners (continued)
Mayer Brown LLP Sidley Austin LLP Hofstra Law School McCarter & English LLP Silverman Thompson Slutkin, White LLC Loyola Law School McDermott, Will & Emery LLP Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP New York School of Law Merrick, Hofstedt & Lindsey PS Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP New York University School of Law Milbank Tweed LLP Skoloff & Wolfe, PC Northeastern University School of Law Miles & Stockbridge PC Snell & Wilmer Roger Williams University School of Law Mintz Levin PC SNR Denton Rutgers School of Law Morgan Lewis & Bockius LLP Stein Legal Group LLP Pepperdine University School of Law Morrison & Foerster LLP Stephen Jeffries & Associates Seattle University School of Law Munger Tolles & Olson LLP Stephen S. Wise Temple Seton Hall University of Law Newmeyer & Dillon LLP Steptoe & Johnson LLP Suffolk University Law School Niles Barton & Wilmer LLP Stoel Rives LLP South Texas College of Law Nixon Peabody LLP Stone & Grzegorek & Gonzalez LLP Thurgood Marshall School of Law Nutter, McClennen & Fish LLP Stradling Yocca Carlson & Rauth, P.C. Touro Law Center O’Melveny & Meyers LLP Strasser Asatrian LLC University of Baltimore Law School Or Ami Congregation Sullivan & Cromwell LLP University of California-Irvine School of Law Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP University of Connecticut School of Law Osha Liang LLP Tafapolksky & Smith LLP University of the District of Columbia Pacifca Law Group LLP Tesorni & LeRoy LLP David A. Clarke School of Law Pappas & Lenzo, LLP Thompson & Knight LLP University of Houston Law Center Patterson Belknap Webb & Tyler LLP Thompson, Loss & Judge LLP University of La Verne College of Law Paul Hastings LLP Troutman Sanders LLP University of Maryland School of Law Paul Weiss Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison LLP Tucker Ellis LLP University of Massachusetts School Perkins Coie LLP Tydings & Rosenberg LLP of Law-Dartmouth Phung, Miyamoto & Diaz LLP Valencia & Associates APC University of Washington School of Law Pierce Atwood LLP Venable LLP Washington College of Law Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP Vinson & Elkins LLP Whittier Law School Pite Duncan LLP Visa Law Group PLLC Bar Associations Porter & Hedges LLP Watt Beckworth Thompson Posinelli PC Henneman & Sullivan LLP American Bar Association, General Practice, Solo and Small Firm Division Powers & Frost LLP Weil Gotshal & Manges LLP American Immigration Lawyers Association Prince Lobel Tye LLP White & Case LLP Baltimore City Bar Association Proskauer Rose LLP Wilmer Hale LLP Boston Bar Association Pryor Cashman LLP Wilson Elser Moskowitz Edelman & Dicker LLP Federal Bar Association – New Jersey Chapter Reed Smith LLP Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati LLP Hispanic National Bar Association Rios & Cruz PS Winstead PC King County Bar Association Rivkin Radler LLP Winston & Strawn LLP Maryland State Bar Association Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ceresia LLP Yang & Ullman PLLC Mexican American Bar Association Robinson & Cole LLP Zuckerman Spaeder Minority Corporate Counsel Association Rodriquez-Nanney PA Law Schools National Asian Pacifc American Bar Association Ropes & Gray LLP National Association of Women Lawyers Rutan & Tucker LLP American University Washington College of Law Washington State Chapter of American Ryan Stark Lilienthal LLP Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law Immigration Lawyers Association Sally & Fitch LLP Boston College Law School Scott & Associates LLC Boston University School of Law Sedgwick Detert Moran & Arnold LLP Bunker Hill Community College Segal Roitman LLP Catholic University Columbus School of Law Seyfarth Shaw LLP City of New York School of Law Shearman & Sterling LLP Columbia Law School Sheehy Ware & Pappas PC Georgetown Law Sheresky Aronson Mayefsky & Sloan LLP George Washington University Law School Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP Harvard Law School
KIND Annual Report 2014 19 Foundation and Government Funders
The Abell Foundation The Annie E. Casey Foundation Morton K. and Jane Blaustein Foundation Boston Bar Foundation* Briarwood Farm Foundation Carnegie Corporation of New York The Clinton H. & Wilma T. Shattuck Charitable Trust Equal Justice Works Equal Justice Works justice AmeriCorps Legal Fellowship Program Exelon Corporate Relations Immigrant Justice Corps* The Isabel Allende Foundation* J.E. Fehsenfeld Family Foundation George and Patricia Ann Fisher Foundation Ford Foundation The Fund for Unaccompanied Children John & Marcia Goldman Foundation The Herb Block Foundation Houston Endowment Inc. Hispanics in Philanthropy The Howard G. Buffett Foundation The John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Leonard M. Greene Fund of the Vermont Community Foundation The Morrison & Foerster Foundation Newman’s Own Foundation Oak Foundation* Open Society Foundation Faye and Michael Richardson Charitable Trust The Robin Hood Foundation State of California Department of Social Services Sunwest Bank Charitable Foundation Texas Bar Foundation Unbound Philanthropy The Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation, Inc. Vera Institute of Justice W.M. Keck Foundation* Anonymous Foundations (2)
*These supporters joined in 2015 but are included in this report 20 Financials
11%
6% 2% 2% 2% 1% 1% Revenue Expenses
80% 95%
Donated Legal Services Legal Services Foundations General Administrative Government Grants Communications & Advocacy Events Regional Work Other
In-kind Contributions
Pro Bono Legal Services From 2009-2014
2009 $7,080,652
2010 $11,664,038 192,286 2011 $13,971,146 Pro Bono Hours 2012 $17,922,680
2013 $17,256,267
2014* $17,025,281 $84,920,064 $ Equivalent
**KIND changed from a fscal year (October-September) to a calendar year in 2014.
KIND Annual Report 2014 21 Drawings by children referred to KIND
KIND Annual Report 2014 22 Drawings by children referred to KIND
KIND Annual Report 2014 23 Give safety and freedom. With your support, we have been able to help so many children who need us. It has meant the difference between a child being sent back to a life of danger and fear in his or her home country—and the chance to live a life of safety and freedom in the United States. Thank you for your ongoing support. We cannot do this without you.
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