Board of Directors

The Board of Directors is responsible for coordinating all the efforts of the Refugee Reunification Project Fund. Members of the Board of Directors also screen grant applications.

Amanda Edmonds: Amanda is an attorney at Ropes & Gray, LLP in Washington, D.C.  She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School.  At Yale, she represented asylum seekers and served as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her work with asylees who have been separated from their families convinced her of the need for the Refugee Reunification Project Fund. 

Abja Midha: Abja is an attorney at Sanctuary for Families in New York City. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School where she was very active in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. Her experiences working with asylum applicants who could not afford to bring their families to the United States led to her interest in forming the Refugee Reunification Project Fund.

Elora Mukherjee: Elora is an attorney at Emery Celli Brinckerhoff & Abady, LLP where her practice focuses on civil rights issues. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School. While a law student, she represented asylum seekers in the Immigration Legal Services clinic and interned at the ACLU Immigrants Rights Project. From 2006-2007, she served as a Karpatkin Fellow at the ACLU where she filed suit on behalf of 26 immigrant children detained under prison-like conditions at the T. Don Hutto detention center in Taylor, Texas. A landmark settlement announced in August 2007 greatly improved conditions at the facility and secured the release of these children and their parents.

Farrin Anello: Farrin is a litigation associate at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton LLP in New York. She is a recent graduate of Yale Law School, where she represented asylum seekers and worked as a student director in the Immigration Legal Services clinic. She subsequently served as a law clerk to the Honorable Janet C. Hall of the U.S. District Court for the District of Connecticut and the Honorable Denise Cote of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York. In Fall 2008, she will begin working as a Skadden Fellow at the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project.