Holly Cooper, Co-Director of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic, has extensive litigation experience defending the rights of immigrants and is a nationally recognized expert on immigration detention issues.  She has been active in the enforcement of the Flores Settlement Agreement, which sets child-welfare standards and requires the release of immigrant children from immigration detention without unnecessary delay.

Satsuki Ina was born in the Tule Lake Segregation Center, a maximum security concentration camp for Japanese Americans during WWII. She has a private psychotherapy practice in the San Francisco Bay Area specializing in the treatment of community trauma. A community activist, writer, and filmmaker, she has produced two award-winning documentary films about the WWII Japanese American incarceration: Children of the Camps and From A Silk Cocoon: A Japanese American Renunciant’s Story.

Karen Pedraza is a second-year law student at UC Davis School of Law. She currently volunteers in the Immigration Law Clinic working alongside Holly Cooper in enforcing the Flores Settlement Agreement. She recently traveled to Tornillo, Texas where about 1,500 children were detained in a "tent city" 30 miles from El Paso. She and her colleagues investigated fingerprint delays, met with children, inspected the detention center, and researched whether the conditions violated the Flores Settlement agreement.

Moderator: Professor Blake Nordahl is the supervisor of the McGeorge School of Law Immigration Law Clinic and a California Certified Law Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law. He serves on the California State Bar's Advisory Law Commission for Immigration and Nationality Law, and is the liaison between the Sacramento U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services field office and the Board of the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

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