Sirine Shebaya

Sirine Shebaya is the Executive Director of the National Immigration Project. She is an immigrant rights litigator and advocate who focuses on the intersection of immigration, civil rights, and racial justice. Under her leadership, the National Immigration Project combines movement-centered litigation, policy advocacy, narrative change, and training and education strategies to defend and advance the rights of immigrant communities of color. Sirine has led successful campaigns and lawsuits to disentangle local law enforcement from immigration enforcement, to expand protective policies at the federal level, and to challenge federal, state and local laws that harm immigrants.