What if we look at immigration policy through a different lens?

Andrea R. Flores is the Vice President of Immigration Policy & Campaigns. She is an attorney and policy expert who has spent her career advising lawmakers on reforms to the immigration system. She most recently served as Chief Counsel to Senator Robert Menendez, where she helped negotiate a bipartisan bill to protect federal judges. Previously, she served as the Director of Border Management on the National Security Council and was a member of the Biden-Harris Transition team. At the ACLU, she led the organization’s national immigration advocacy work and on Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign, she served as a policy advisor on battleground state policy issues. Andrea also served three years in the Obama Administration, both at the White House Domestic Policy Council and the Department of Homeland Security, where she worked on a range of policies including the creation and implementation of Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals and the 2013 Senate immigration bill. Andrea grew up in Las Cruces, New Mexico, and attended Columbia Law School and Harvard College. She is a Term Member of the Council on Foreign Relations.

Manuel Orozco is the director of the Migration, Remittances, and Development Program at the Inter-American Dialogue. He also serves as a senior fellow at Harvard University’s Center for International Development and as a senior adviser with the International Fund for Agricultural Development.

Orozco has conducted extensive research, policy analysis and advocacy on issues relating to global flows of remittances as well as migration and development worldwide. He is chair of Central America and the Caribbean at the US Foreign Service Institute and senior researcher at the Institute for the Study of International Migration at Georgetown University.

Orozco frequently testifies before Congress and has spoken before the United Nations. He holds a PhD in political science from the University of Texas at Austin, a MA in public administration and Latin American studies, and a BA in international relations from the National University of Costa Rica.

Camille Mackler is a thought leader, strategist, and legal expert on how global issues intersect with local concerns. With a focus on migration, national security, foreign policy, and human rights, Ms. Mackler has written and spoken extensively on some of the world's most pressing issues.

On the national stage, she has put her words into action by being on the frontline of many migration crises over the last two decades. A few examples include the legal response to the Muslim Travel Ban, working to reunite asylum-seeking parents with their parents during family separation policies, advocating for - and ultimately helping coordinate - the evacuation of Afghan allies after the Taliban takeover, and most recently addressing the increase of newly arrived immigrants to New York City from the US-Mexico border.

Throughout this work, Ms. Mackler has emphasized cultivating and strengthening women's leadership and promoting diverse and inclusive efforts that ensure voices in the conversation are representative of those who live with the consequences of policymakers' choices.