Spring Symposium: Pacific Northwest Immigration Enforcement Trends and Community Responses

Name: Spring Symposium: Pacific Northwest Immigration Enforcement Trends and Community Responses
Start: 2026-05-14T17:00:00-07:00
Location: Kane Hall, University of Washington

Schedule

Thu, 14 May, 2026 at 05:00 pm

UTC-07:00

Location

Kane Hall, University of Washington | Seattle, WA

Please join us for our 2026 Spring Symposium featuring UWCHR’s Immigrant Rights Observatory research on Pacific Northwest immigration enforcement trends and how communities are responding to today’s heightened enforcement and changing tactics.
Spring Symposium
Thursday, May 14, 2026
5:00 - 6:00 pm | Reception
6:00 - 7:30 pm | Main program
Kane Hall, Room 225, UW Seattle
Free and open to the public, join us in person or online live stream.
REGISTER HERE: http://tinyurl.com/springevent2026
Speakers include:
Alyssa Walker Keller, Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition
Angelina Godoy, UW Center for Human Rights
David Morales, Yakima Immigrant Response Network
David Montes, ACLU of Washington
Stephen Manning, Innovation Law Lab
Thank you to our event co-sponsors:
UW School of Law
Law, Societies, and Justice Department

Speaker bios:
Alyssa Walker Keller is a lifelong learner, asker of curious questions, and community organizer. She is the coordinator at the Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition (a statewide organization dedicated to the prevention of and rapid response to ICE detentions) and a cofounder of the Asylum Seeker Solidarity Collective, which organizes alongside recently arrived asylum seekers. Informed by the practices of Sacred Organizing, she believes that we need one another to build the world as we want it to be.
Angelina Snodgrass Godoy is Helen H. Jackson Endowed Chair in Human Rights and Director at the Center for Human Rights at the University of Washington. She is Professor of International Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School, Professor of Law, Societies, and Justice, and Adjunct Professor of Sociology. A sociologist by training, her research focuses on human rights in Central and Latin America. Godoy teaches undergraduate and graduate courses in human rights in both the Law, Societies, and Justice department and in the Jackson School of International Studies.
David Montes is a staff attorney at the ACLU of Washington. He works primarily on immigration and criminal legal system related issues but has also done voting rights work. Before joining the ACLU of Washington, he was a public defender for 11 years. He attended the University of Oregon and Northeastern University for law school.
David Morales is a volunteer with the Yakima Immigrant Response Network. The network was started in 2017 to protect immigrants in the Yakima Valley. David leads the Rapid Response Team, a group of 30+ volunteers tasked with verifying ICE activity, recording ICE interactions, and monitoring for legal violations. The team has helped dozens of immigrants over the years, including capturing evidence leading to several successful Habeas Corpus petitions and suppression of evidence motions. The Rapid Response Team has been at the forefront of tracking ICE in the Yakima Valley and keeping on top of their constant changes. David's day job is as a lawyer in Yakima, Washington.
Stephen W Manning is an attorney in Portland, Oregon. He is a founding partner of Immigrant Law Group PC and the founder and director of the Innovation Law Lab, a non-profit that combines technology and litigation to create next generation activism against the mass incarceration of refugees and immigrants. He is an adjunct professor of law at Lewis & Clark Law School. Considered the most innovative lawyer in North America for 2017 by The Financial Times, he is the recipient of the 2015 AILA Founders Award for the person who had the most impact on immigration policy, 2010 Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, the 2009 Edith Lowenstein Memorial Award for Excellence in Advancing the Practice of Immigration Law, the 2008 Gerald R Robinson Award for Excellence in Immigration Litigation, a Bill & Ann Shepard Law Scholar and other awards and recognition. He is a former Commissioner for the City of Portland’s Human Rights Commission. He is the author of several amicus briefs, practice advisories, the author of Ending Artesia: The Artesia Report (Jan 2015) and was a presenter at the TEDxMtHood Conference on new ways to deploy legal strategies to protect refugees. He is a past chair of the AILA Amicus Committee and a past chair of the Oregon AILA chapter. He is a member of the AILA Board of Governors. He is a member of the Board of Directors of Health Bridges International, a nonprofit engaged in international capacity building in medical work; a former board member of Immigration Counseling Service, a nonprofit in Oregon; and the Northwest Speak Out Project, a nonprofit engaged in community based education on sexual minorities. He was a volunteer with the AILA-AIC Artesia Pro Bono Project, is a volunteer with the CARA Pro Bono Project. He is the author of a mystery novel, Broken Spanish Bones. He is an accomplished distance runner, climber, open water swimmer, and ski mountaineer. He lives with his husband, James Wilson, in Portland, Oregon in a home they designed and built.