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Michelle Caldera

Michelle Caldera is a veteran advocate for immigrants and speaker of Romanian, Russian and Spanish, in addition to English. Michelle Caldera comes to us most recently from the New York Association for New Americans where she was a staff attorney representing immigrants in all levels of administrative proceedings. Before that she represented low-income clients at Bet Tzedek Legal Services in Los Angeles. From Sept. 1999 - May 2000, she was a visiting lecturer within a Civic Education Project in Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, and she spent 1993-95 in Craiova, Romania as a Peace Corps Volunteer teaching English and leadership training. She has also served as a Sandler Fellow for Human Rights Watch traveling to Texas and Louisiana to study death row inmates and back to Romania to focus on religious freedom. Michelle Caldera holds her (1998) J.D. from Columbia Law School, where she was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar, and her B.A. (1992) from Claremont McKenna College.

Recent Courses

• Clinic: Asylum and Human Rts. (Spring 2008)
• Clinic: Asylum/Hum, Adv. Fldwk (Spring 2008)
• Clinic: Asylum and Human Rts. (Fall 2007)
• Clinic: Asylum/Hum, Adv. Fldwk (Fall 2007)
• Clinic: Asylum/Hum, Adv. Fldwk (Spring 2007)
• Clinic: Asylum and Human Rts. (Fall 2006)