The Public Interest Center is co-hosting a “Know Your Rights” panel with the NY Division of Human Rights, focused on immigration and workers rights.
The event will be held on on Friday morning, October 24th, with coffee in the Solarium, followed by a panel at 10am in LL-07
Angela Fernandez is the Commissioner of the NYS Division of Human Rights. Ms. Fernandez is a graduate of the Columbia University School of Law and has more than 20 years of experience advocating for human and civil rights in the United States and internationally. Her public interest law experience began in the Middle East, investigating labor law violations of workers, with the Centre for Human Rights Legal Aid in Cairo and continued with her providing pro bono legal representation to immigrants through the American Immigrant Lawyers Association.
Ms. Fernandez is unique in that she combines top-level governmental experience with years of working collaboratively with affected community members across New York State. This has given her a clear understanding of the current policy gaps within New York and the progressive solutions to fill them. In the past 10 years, she has helped to build broad city- and state-wide coalitions that have reversed policies potentially devastating to vulnerable New Yorkers.”
The commissioner will introduce the other panelists and moderate the panel, the panelists are:
Rebecca Nathanson, Director, Anti-Retaliation Unit & Counsel to Labor Standards, NYS Department of Labor
Michael Paglialonga, Deputy Counsel, NYS Department of Labor
Caroline Downey, General Counsel, NYS Division of Human Rights
