Central American Legal Assistance
Heather Axford serves as Director at Central American Legal Assistance since January 2023 and has been a Legal Director at the same organization since September 2008, providing legal assistance to refugees from Central and South America. Additionally, Heather Axford has been an Adjunct Professor at New York Law School since January 2017, teaching a Refugee & Asylum Law Seminar. Prior experience includes serving as a Staff Attorney at the Law Offices of Alan M. Parra, where legal assistance was provided to refugees from Ethiopia and Eritrea, and as a Hunger Fellow at the Congressional Hunger Center from 2003 to 2004. Heather Axford earned a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law in 2007 and a B.A. in History from Vassar College in 2003.
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Central American Legal Assistance
Central American Legal Assistance (CALA) provides free or low-cost legal services to New York’s immigrant community. Our mission is to protect and defend Central and South American asylum-seekers and to expand the civil rights of all immigrants. CALA has had an open door to newly-arrived immigrants since 1985. CALA’s staff are all bi-lingual. Based in a Brooklyn church, CALA offers immigrants a home base for advice or counseling as well as legal representation. We have put thousands of Latino immigrants on the road to citizenship