A Profile in Public Service: A Conversation with Dorothy Singletary, Assistant General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)

Dorothy Singletary serves as Assistant General Counsel at the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). She advocates for fast food, retail, and home care workers with SEIU’s Fight for $15 campaign and the Union of Southern Service Workers campaign. Before joining SEIU, Dorothy worked as Assistant General Counsel at Climate Jobs National Resource Center (CJRNC), a non-profit that works to create good union jobs in the clean energy sector. Prior to her work at CJNRC, she served as an SEIU legal fellow. Dorothy received a B.A. in political science from the University of Maryland College Park and earned her J.D. from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. 

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Clerkships: An ACS Information Meeting

The Berkeley Law ACS chapter will be hosting an event with Thea Cohen, the ACS national clerkship coordinator, to discuss clerking for liberal judges, the resources ACS has for clerkships, and how to navigate ideology when looking for clerkships.

https://berkeley.zoom.us/j/94663153655

Confronting the War on Immigrants: Citizenship, Detention & Deportation

From radical attempts to end birthright citizenship to mass detentions at Guantanamo, President Trump has made persecuting immigrants a cornerstone of his first weeks in office. In this event, Professors Ana Raquel Minian and Amanda Frost will examine the long history of attacks on immigrants and how they weaken rights and protections for us all.

Featuring:

Amanda Frost, author of You Are Not American: Citizenship Stripping from Dred Scott to the Dreamers, Professor of Law at the University of Virginia School of Law
Ana Raquel Minian, author of In the Shadow of Liberty: The Invisible History of Immigrant Detention, Professor of History at Stanford University
Taonga Leslie, Director of Policy and Program for Racial Justice, American Constitution Society

CLE credit will be provided.