"Big Beautiful Bill" Debrief Panel

Panel describing how the bill was passed, and how it will affect student's access to Medicaid, SNAP, Immigrant Rights, and student loans.

Panelists: 

Brittany Shannahan, Organizer, Medicare-for-All Campaign, Public Citizen: Brittany Shannahan currently serves as a Medicare-for-All Organizer at Public Citizen, a nonprofit consumer advocacy organization that works vigorously to defend our democracy, resist corporate power, and fight to ensure the government works for its constituents. She has extensive experience organizing activist networks and campaigning for national and local civil society campaigns. As a Medicare-for-All Organizer, Brittany advocates for a single-payer healthcare system and coordinates activists locally and around the country to pass city and county resolutions. Before her time at Public Citizen, Brittany worked in various other public interest roles, including Healthcare Is a Human Right Maryland as Campaign Manager and Habitat for Humanity of the Chesapeake as a Development Assistant.

Tony DuLaney, Clinical Case Manager, University of Baltimore, School of Law: Tony DuLaney currently supports University of Baltimore students through the University's Office of Student Support in which he oversees the Compass Case Management Program, Student Assistance Program, and the Student Emergency Assistance Fund. In his work as the Co-Chair of the University Basic Needs Committee, he collaborates with several campus administrators in assessing and creatively supporting the holistic needs of the University of Baltimore Student Community. Prior to his time at UBalt, Tony worked in various roles within the Mental Health Nonprofit space in supporting Community Mental Health Centers and School Based Mental Health Programs throughout the Baltimore- Washington Metro Area.

Professor Valeria Gomez, Director Immigrant Rights and Immigrant Justice Clinic, UB Law: Valeria Gomez, an expert in immigration and asylum law, joined the UBalt Law faculty in 2022. She directs the University of Baltimore School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic and Immigrant Justice Clinic and also teaches Immigration Law. Gomez regularly speaks on issues related to asylum and immigration law and clinical teaching. Gomez’s scholarship currently focuses on the intersection of immigration law, gender, sexual orientation, and reproductive justice, and on the effect of geography and space in the implementation and consequences of immigration law and policy. Her scholarship is informed by her experience as a practicing immigration attorney, her past experiences as a public interest attorney in under-served legal regions and her experiences as a Mexican-American woman.