Sign up for one-on-one appointments with Wasserstein Fellow Michelle Lapointe

Interested in Immigrants Rights?

Appointments are available with Wasserstein Fellow Michelle Lapointe, Legal Director at the American at the American Immigration Council. Michelle leads the organization’s impact litigation and oversees the Council’s legal advocacy to advance the rights of immigrants and promote a fair and just immigration system. Prior to joining the Council in 2024, Michelle served as a Deputy Legal Director at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), where she litigated immigrants’ rights cases and advocated for immigrant worker rights. Michelle began her legal career and spent nearly 12 years at the Southern Poverty Law Center’s Immigrant Justice Project. At SPLC, she represented farmworkers and guest workers in class and collective actions for unpaid wages and other employment violations, and litigated cases against federal and state officials for violations of immigrants’ civil rights.

Michelle will be on-campus October 26-28. Sign-up today!