VAAP announces IJC partnership

While preparing for the honor of welcoming Vermont’s first ever Immigrant Justice Corps Fellows this fall, VAAP executive director Jill Martin Diaz caught up with IJC’s alumni relations team to reflect on the game-changing resources this new partnership with bring to immigrants living in Vermont.

Jill reflected, “The fellowship is an opportunity to provide high-volume direct legal services to noncitizens in need and to do it in a supportive, mentorship-focused environment. Not only are you matched with amazing mentors, like my IJC host, who I’m still very close with, but you also have the support of IJC and the IJC community, who are colleagues and connections I carry forward today. . . . It’s just such a beautiful community to be a part of as we fight for something that shouldn’t be this hard to fight for, but it is.”

Read more at https://justicecorps.org/news/where-are-they-now-2/.