Cori Alonso-Yoder, AB, JD
Titles
Assistant Professor of Law
Director of the Immigration Clinic
School Affiliation
Carey School of Law
Specialties
Immigration
equal justice issues
About
Email: calonso-yoder@law.umaryland.edu
Ana Corina “Cori” Alonso-Yoder is an assistant professor of law and director of the Immigration Clinic, an affiliate of the Chacón Center for Immigrant Justice at the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law. Professor Alonso-Yoder is a nationally recognized scholar on immigration legislation and the impacts of state, local, and federal laws on immigrant communities. In Professor Alonso-Yoder's work to promote immigrants’ rights, she has collaborated on transnational labor policy and worker outreach in central Mexico, provided legal orientation and advice and counsel to inmates in U.S. immigration detention facilities, and served as an assistant to the chair of the United Nations Committee Against Torture in Geneva. Her service to the Latino community has been recognized with the Hispanic Law Conference’s Edmund Bou Award and the DC Courts’ Legal Community Award. Professor Alonso-Yoder is actively involved in board service with the immigrant advocacy organizations La Clínica del Pueblo and Centro de los Derechos del Migrante.
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