Homero is ISLA's Legal Director.  As the son of a migrant worker, Homero grew up moving around the country and living among immigrant communities his entire life.  Before co-founding ISLA, Homero was the managing attorney at Catholic Charities-Archdiocese of New Orleans where he oversaw a legal team of 30 attorneys, accredited representatives, and legal assistants focusing on representing Unaccompanied Children and immigrant victims of crime.  Before that, Homero was a staff, and later, supervising attorney at Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Baton Rouge where he conducted the Legal Orientation Program for detained immigrants at the LaSalle Detention Facility and primarily focused on detained cases.  Homero is a graduate of Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and Tulane University Law School in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 

Al Page is the Executive Director at ISLA. She is a graduate of McGill University and Tulane Law School. After law school, she received an Equal Justice Works Fellowship to represent unaccompanied immigrant minors, and at the completion of the project, she was hired by Catholic Charities of New Orleans where she continued her work as a Senior Staff Attorney, in addition to running a city-wide immigration self-help program. Recently, she founded ISLA to address the egregious deprivation of due process for immigrants in detention.

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Emma Morley is a paralegal at ISLA. She received her B.A. from the University of New Orleans in Political Science and graduated with Honors. Prior to joining ISLA, she worked as a paralegal at Catholic Charities in the Unaccompanied Minors Program. At Catholic Charities, she received accreditation to practice as a Department of Justice Representative and represented clients in their applications for relief with USCIS.

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Teresa is an Immigrant Justice Corps Justice Fellow at ISLA. She is a graduate of the University of Texas at Austin and Texas A&M University School of Law. As a first-generation American, she grew up watching her Salvadoran mother’s ten-year journey to obtaining lawful status. As a law clinic student in Texas A&M’s Immigrant Rights Clinic and intern with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), Teresa worked with asylum seekers and unaccompanied children. As an intern at Texas RioGrande Legal Aid, she aided the pro se asylum clinic for individuals subject to the Remain in Mexico policy. 

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Jessica was born and raised in Dallas, Texas. She graduated with a bachelor’s degree in Government and Study of Women & Gender from Smith College in 2012. Before law school, Jessica was a BIA Accredited Representative for survivors of domestic violence, human trafficking, and sexual assault at Mosaic Family Services. Her passion for immigrant rights led her to attend Lewis & Clark Law School where she received her J.D. in 2021. Jessica is excited to become part of the ISLA as an Immigrant Justice Corps Fellow.

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Fatima is an Immigration Justice Corps Legal Fellow at ISLA. She received her J.D. from George Washington University Law School, where she participated in the Criminal Defense and Justice Clinic. Previously, Fatima interned at the International Rescue Committee,  Advocates for Basic Legal Equality, Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition, Bronx Defenders, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. Fatima received her B.A. from Wesleyan College and speaks Urdu and Spanish. She comes to immigration law grounded in her own experiences as an immigrant from Pakistan.

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Emily Bushman attended the University of Iowa for both her undergraduate degree and law school. Emily worked for two years at the University of Iowa Legal Clinic where she worked alongside and served as an advocate for immigrant individuals and communities. In the UI Legal Clinic, Emily provided client-centered representation to clients on a variety of matters. Her work included representing asylum seekers in both affirmative and defensive asylum cases. Emily is excited to become a fellow at Immigration Services and Legal Advocacy in New Orleans, Louisiana, providing pro bono representation in Immigration Court.

Eva Lechuga is the administrative assistant at ISLA. She is a graduate of Loyola University in New Orleans where she majored in Criminal Justice. Prior to joining ISLA, she worked as a case manager at the New Orleans Family Justice Center, where she assisted the Latino community across the greater New Orleans area with crisis and case management services for numerous years.  

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