Thursday, October 30, 2025
12:30 PM - 1:45 PM (ET)
Heritage Room, Maxwell Library
Event Type
Lecture
Department
Global Migration Program
Link
https://bridgew.emscloudservice.com/calendar/EventDetails.aspx?EventDetailId=76196
On Thursday, October 30, from 12:30-1:45pm, in the Maxwell
Library Heritage Room, Emily Brunelle will deliver From Classroom to Courtroom:
How Anthropology Informs Immigration Justice.
Emily Brunelle is a BSU alumna who earned a degree in
Anthropology and now works as an immigration paralegal at the Justice Center, a
legal aid non-profit in Brockton serving all of southeast Massachusetts.
Emily’s position combines traditional paralegal work–such as assisting
attorneys with cases in immigration court like asylum and special visas for
survivors of domestic violence and youth–with community engagement activities
to collaborate with local immigrant organizations and other community partners.
This includes working as a local leader for the LUCE Immigration Justice
Network of MA, which is a coalition of immigrant-led grassroots organizations
that builds power in immigrant communities and fights to defend our communities
from ICE. Emily’s experiences at BSU have helped informed her work as a
non-immigrant who chooses to be in community with and stand with immigrants in
an unjust legal system.
Sponsored by
the Global Migration Program, the event is open to the BSU community and the
public.