The Alaska World Affairs Council Presents

Robin Bronen
Executive Director of Alaska Immigration Justice Project

 

Friday, December 7, 2007 – Hilton Hotel
Doors open at 11:30 a.m. - Program begins at 12:00 p.m.
For Reservations
RSVP by Wednesday, 5th December to the Alaska World Affairs Council
by telephone 276-8038 or by email to AlaskaWorldAffairs.org .
Lunch Program $20 for Members - $25 for Non-Members - $6 for Coffee Only

Robin Bronen has worked with immigrants and refugees in Alaska since 1994. She is currently the Executive Director of the Alaska Immigration Justice Project, the only non-profit statewide agency in Alaska that provides comprehensive immigration legal services.
The Alaska Immigration Justice Project also houses the first statewide Language Interpreter Center that will provide an interpreter training and certification program in Alaska and also a statewide interpreter registry and referral system.

Prior to working at the Alaska Immigration Justice Project, she worked as the Program Director of the Immigration & Refugee Services Program at Catholic Social Services where she implemented the first refugee resettlement program in Alaska. She became Alaska's first State Refugee Coordinator in 2003 and worked in that capacity with the federal government to resettle refugees in Alaska. She guided the largest refugee resettlement in Alaska when Hmong refugees arrived in 2004.

She has initiated and coordinated local and statewide public policy discussions impacting immigrants and refugees with state agencies, the judiciary, law enforcement, the legal community and social services and health care agencies since 1996.

The Alaska Bar Association recently awarded her the Robert Hickerson Public Service Award. The Alaska Immigration Justice Project also received the Municipality of Anchorage's Diversity award in 2007.