UDCares: Understanding Immigration Policies

To support our campus community, UDC will be hosting an informational panel session featuring faculty and law professionals who will provide an overview of current immigration policies, student visa considerations, and available campus and community resources. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions in a supportive and educational setting.

Below is a biography for each of our panelists!

Jessica Wolfendale is a professor in the Department of Philosophy. Her primary research area is the ethics of political violence, with a focus on torture, terrorism, war, and punishment. She is particularly interested in how the social, political, and legal narratives and institutions related to these forms of violence shape the moral thinking of perpetrators of state

Ayesha Bell Hardaway is a Professor of Law at Case Western Reserve University whose scholarship focuses on criminal law, policing, and the intersection of race and the law. Her research examines police accountability, including federal intervention, community oversight, and the influence of police associations and collective bargaining on efforts to address misconduct. She is the Director of the Criminal Clinic at Case Western Reserve University School of Law, where she supervises law students representing clients in misdemeanor cases, and also leads the Social Justice Law Center and the university’s Social Justice Institute

C Stonebraker-Martínez joined the IRTF staff in 2013. C proudly serves on the board of the indigeous-led local collective, the Committee of 500 Years of Dignity and Resistance. They have served as a representative to the United Nations for the International Fellowship of Reconciliation (iFOR), Co-Chair of the Fellowship of Reconciliation (FOR/FORUSA), Co-Moderator of the Disciples Peace Fellowship (DPF), VP of Disciples Justice Action Network (DJAN), Chair of the Ohio Fair Trade Network (OFTN) to name a few. A proud abolitionist community organizer organizing in the greater Cleveland area; the groups they are currently organizing and helping to build within grassroots communities are: Cleveland Co-Op Circles, the Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition, Ohio Immigrant Alliance, the NEO Medic Collective, the NEO Worker Center, Cleveland Pandemic Response, Cleveland Jewish Collective, Interfaith Action for Palestine, and the Cleveland Palestine Advocacy Community.

John Flores is an Immigration and Labor Historian. He specializes in Mexican American history, and his research interests include the history of deportation and citizenship, transnational labor movements, and the formation of racial and national identities. In The Mexican Revolution in Chicago, Flores created a census of the Spanish-speaking immigrants who applied for U.S. citizenship in Chicago between 1900 and 1940. To date, this is the largest and most inclusive historical census of Hispanic naturalization in the United States. Through this census, Flores traces the political activities of immigrants back to their origins in Mexico, Nicaragua, Cuba, and other countries, revealing the Latin American social movements that created the Mexican American community of Chicago. Professor Flores also teaches courses on Latina/os, immigration, labor, and race.

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