Jug Chokshi
Board Treasurer
Jug Chokshi is the COO of the New England Foundation for the Arts, Inc. Prior to this, Jug held executive and financial leadership roles in several high growth social impact organizations. Most recently he served as the executive director of Resiliency for Life.
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Conchita Cruz
Co-founder Conchita Cruz is ASAP’s Co-Executive Director. She previously served as Deputy Chief of Staff to U.S. Congressman Jared Polis (D-CO) and as Chief of Staff for State Senator Gustavo Rivera of the Bronx.
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Fred Diego
Fred Diego is a technologist with 10 years of experience developing systems, large and small, in the public and private sector.
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Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen
Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen (he/him) is the Executive Director of the National Center for Transgender Equality. He is a transgender policy, advocacy, and messaging expert.
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Paola Luisi
Paola Luisi has over a decade of experience in progressive politics, campaigning, and storytelling. Before joining Families Belong Together, she worked on reproductive health and rights across Latin America.
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Arlenis Morel
Arlenis Morel is Co-Executive Director of Make the Road New York and a State Director for Make the Road Action. She represented District 24 in Queens on the Community Education Council for two years.
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Elora Mukherjee
Elora Mukherjee is the Jerome L. Greene Clinical Professor of Law at Columbia Law School. Elora is director of the Law School’s Immigrants’ Rights Clinic, which provides high-quality legal representation to both immigrant children and adults.
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Liliana Ornelas
Liliana Ornelas is the Director of School Engagement at Project Lead the Way, working alongside the One8 Foundation in MA to expand STEM pathways in schools in the Commonwealth. Before joining PLTW, she was the Manager of Programs and Curriculum at American Student Assistance in Boston.
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Lia Parada
Lia Parada is the Immigration Hub’s Director of Legislative Advocacy. She has deep expertise working with Congress and national advocacy campaigns engaged in critical policy fights. Lia leads the Hub’s legislative advocacy, working with partners to secure a path to citizenship.
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Juliana Pino
Juliana Pino is the Policy Director at the Little Village Environmental Justice Organization, a community-based organization that organizes and advocates for environmental justice and the self-determination of immigrant, low-income, and working-class families.
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Swapna Reddy
Swapna Reddy is a non-voting member of ASAP’s board and ASAP’s Co-Executive Director. Prior to law school, she conducted technical and empirical research for the Abdul Latif Jameel Poverty Action Lab, the Indianapolis Colts, and more.
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Natalia Rigol
Natalia Rigol is an Assistant Professor at Harvard Business School in the Entrepreneurial Management Unit. Natalia received her Ph.D. in economics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and she was an undergraduate student at Harvard University.
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Kavitha Sreeharsha
Board Vice President
Kavitha Sreeharsha is the Senior Director of Immigrant Justice Philanthropy at Emerson Collective. Since 2015, Kavitha has led Emerson Collective’s immigration grantmaking and has led Emerson Collective to become a prominent supporter of the immigration and immigrant rights ecosystem.
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Dorothy Tegeler
Board Secretary
Dorothy Tegeler is a non-voting member of ASAP’s board and ASAP’s Deputy Executive Director. Prior to joining ASAP, Dorothy worked for five years as Editor and Assistant Director of the health education nonprofit Hesperian Health Guides.
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Michael Wishnie
Board Vice President
Michael J. Wishnie is William O. Douglas Clinical Professor of Law and Deputy Dean for Experiential Education at Yale Law School. Mike’s teaching, scholarship, and law practice have focused on immigration, labor and employment, habeas corpus, voting rights, government transparency, and veterans law.
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