Annual Houston Benefit: Champions for Immigrant Children

Featuring Guest Speaker
Immigration Reporter at the Houston Chronicle Lomi Kriel

With ongoing family separation at our border and high numbers of migrant children seeking protection, the time is now to come together in defense of the rights of immigrant children. Please join Young Center Founder and Executive Director Maria Woltjen for a cocktail reception hosted by the Young Center Houston Advisory Board to support our work with unaccompanied and separated immigrant children. Light refreshments will be served.

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
6:00pm – 8:00pm
Emilie Slohm meeting room at South Texas College of Law Houston

If you’re unable to attend the event, please consider making a donation to support our work with immigrant children. Ticket sales for this event are now closed. To add your name to the event wait list, please email mwitters@theyoungcenter.org.

About our featured speaker, Lomi Kriel:
Lomi Kriel is the immigration reporter at the Houston Chronicle, where she was the first to uncover the administration’s separation of migrant families at the border in November 2017, six months before the policy was officially announced. Lomi has written on all aspects of immigration, including the tightening of asylum and mass arrests of immigrants under the current administration. She frequently reports from the border, and has also reported on immigration from El Salvador, Arizona and Washington D.C. Previously, Lomi was a reporter for Reuters in Central America and covered criminal justice for the San Antonio Express-News. She holds a master of arts in political journalism from Columbia University and a bachelor of arts in English from the University of Texas at Austin. Read some of Lomi's work here and follow her on Twitter @lomikriel.

Interested in being a sponsor of the 2019 Houston Benefit? Please email ajalbinak@theyoungcenter.org for details on available packages.

For more information, please contact Maddie Witters at mwitters@theyoungcenter.org or 773-571-1116.

For check donations, please mail to:
Young Center for Immigrant Children's Rights
2245 S. Michigan Ave, Suite 301, Chicago, IL 60616

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