2025 Conference.
In 2025, CVIIC’s Regional Conference on Immigrant Integration brought together representatives of scores of immigrant-serving and immigrant rights organizations from the San Joaquin Valley to strengthen regional collaboration, identify priorities and share resources.
Partner agencies organized the thematic panels: a plenary on rapid response, followed by breakout sessions on topics such as immigration enforcement, immigrants with a criminal history, and technological change.
Program
9:00-9:55 (Plenary) Rapid Response Under Trump 2
• Maria Romani, ACLU of Northern California
• Juana Carbajal, UFW Foundation
• Blanca Ojeda, Faith in the Valley
• Sukaina Hussain, California Immigrant Policy Center
10:00-10:55 Round 1 Breakout Sessions Supporting Community Through Immigration Enforcement
• Kristina McKibben-Sias, Community Justice Alliance
• Rosemary Gomez, California Rural Legal Assistance
CRIMMIGRATION: How to Help Immigrants with Criminal History
• Olga Grosh, Pasifika Immigration Law Group LLP
• Lazaro Salazar, Lazaro Salazar Law, Inc.
• Elizabeth Lincoln, Fresno County Public Defender’s Office
Building Bridges: Immigrant Integration in an Era of Automation and Technological Change
• Jie Zong, UCLA Latino Policy and Politics Institute
11-11:55 Round 2 Breakout Sessions Ask Journalists: Immigration and Misinformation
• Gisselle Medina, Religion, Culture and Community Development Reporter at Fresnoland
• Melissa Montalvo, Government Accountability reporter at the Fresno Bee
• Esther Quintanilla, English Learners reporter at the Central Valley Journalism Collaborative
Supporting Immigrant Communities through Worker Cooperatives and SEED
• Vanessa Bransburg, Democracy at Work Institute
• Iliana Perez, Immigrants Rising
• Luis Perez, Immigrants Rising
• Pedro Ramirez, Immigrants Rising
Resistance: Community, Intersectionality and Organizing
• Jesus Ibanez, Education and Leadership Foundation
• Gustavo Gasca, Education and Leadership Foundation
Advocating for Immigrant Victims Through Threats of Mass Deportation
• Tina Rodriguez, Beloved Survivors Trauma Recovery Center
• Jose Ledezma Cervantes, Beloved Survivors Trauma Recovery Center
• Diana Sanchez, Beloved Survivors Trauma Recovery Center
12:00-1:30 Lunch and Plenary 12:00-12:30 Buffet Lunch 12:30-1:30 (Plenary) A Funder’s Perspective: What is Philanthropy Currently Thinking and Doing to Support our Undocumented and Vulnerable Communities?
• Janaki Anagha, 11th Hour Project
• Mark Washington, Kresge Foundation
• Sidra Fatima, Kresge Foundation
• Artie Padilla, Central Valley Community Foundation
• Reyna Villalobos, Sierra Health Foundation
• Maria Cortez, Stanislaus Community Foundation
• Jose Corona, The Agricultural Platform Collective
• Gina DaSilva, Governor’s Office
1:30-2:25 Round 3 Breakout Sessions Overview and Discussion: Immigration Enforcement and Concord Court Trends
• Moderator: Rosemary Gomez, CRLA Foundation
• Pablo Badra, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
• Sean Lai McMahon, California Collaborative for Immigrant Justice
The Weight of Uncertainty: Mental Health Challenges Among Immigrants
• Polet Diaz, Social Justice Collaborative
• Maira Oregel, Social Justice Collaborative
Life After College for Undocumented Students
• Raul Moreno, Moreno Seeds Foundation
• Juan Carranza, Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative
2:30-3:30 (Plenary) Learning, Appreciations, and Next Steps
• Led by Allison Davenport, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Participating organizations
- ACLU of Northern California
- All for Kids
- Aspire Public Schools
- Assemblymember Dr. Joaquin Arambula’s office
- Belen Sanchez Insurance Agency, Inc.
- Beloved Survivors Trauma Recovery Center
- Binational of California
- California Endowment
- California Immigrant Policy Center
- Carolyn D. Phillips, Attorney at Law
- Catholic Charities, Diocese of Fresno
- California Department of Public Health
- Central California Legal Services
- Central Valley Community Foundation
- Central Valley Immigrant Integration Collaborative
- Central Valley Partnership
- Centro Binacional para el Desarrollo Indígena Oaxaqueño
- Centro La Familia Advocacy Services, Inc
- CHIRLA
- Community Justice Alliance
- Concrete Development Inc
- Consulate of Mexico in Fresno
- CRLA Foundation Fresno
- Education & Leadership Foundation
- FIRM – Fresno Interdenominational Refugee Ministries
- Fresno County Public Defender’s Office
- Fresno State
- Fresnoland
- Ginkgo Solutions
- Governor’s Office
- Immigrant Legal Defense
- Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
- Immigrants Rising
- International Rescue Committee
- Kaweah Health
- Kern Community College District-Public Affairs & Development
- Kids in Need of Defense
- Law Office of Armida Mendoza
- Lazaro Salazar Law, Inc.
- Madera County
- Moreno Seeds Foundation
- NBCLC
- Oasis Legal Services
- Ocho Semillas
- Office of Assemblymember Arambula
- Office of Senator Melissa Hurtado
- Poder Latinx
- PPMM
- Proteus Inc.
- Reading and Beyond
- San Joaquin College of Law-NALC
- SBDC
- Sequoias Adult Education Consortium & Visalia Adult School
- Services, Immigrant Rights and Education Network (SIREN)
- Small Business Majority
- Social Justice Collaborative
- Stanislaus Community Foundation
- State Center Adult Education Consortium
- The California Endowment
- The Rosenberg Foundation
- UC Immigrant Legal Services Center
- UC Merced
- United Way of Fresno & Madera
- United Way of Merced County
- Univision Foundation
- Valley Onward
- Valley Voices
- Vision y Compromiso
- West Coast Mennonite Central Committee
- WKF Fund
- World Relief Modesto
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