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Important update: The program, Collaboration Across Strategies: Connecting and Protecting Immigrant Communities, was initially scheduled for Thursday, February 06, but has been rescheduled to Wednesday, February 26, 2025, from 10:00 - 11:30 am. We apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. All registrants will be automatically registered to the new date.

Join SoCal Grantmakers and the California Immigrant Policy Center to learn how intersectional issues like housing, workforce development, health, climate, and education significantly affect immigrant communities. During this convening, we will hear from immigrant rights groups and funders who are supporting collaborations across strategies in anticipation of immediate immigration law enforcement, which includes immediate border closures, policies separating families, and education and health care access to vulnerable populations, including immigrant children and mixed-status families. Such implications will weigh heavily on community-based organizations, community clinics, K-12 education, and the safety net. 

We will explore the following high-level priorities that have emerged:

  1. Strengthening Safety from mass deportation, the dismantling of legal pathways to obtain status, hate, and law enforcement collusion.
  2. Seeking Socio-Economic Security through access to healthcare and public benefits, education, and economic opportunities.
  3. Solidifying Community Strength, including funding CBO collective agenda, including communications and narrative strategy, maintaining CBO infrastructure and staff safety and wellness while facing attacks, and underscoring community power through Integrated Voter Engagement leading up to the 2026 elections.
     

Speakers

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Connie Chung Joe, Esq.

Chief Executive Officer, Advancing Justice Southern California (AJSOCAL)

Prior to joining Asian Americans Advancing Justice Southern California in August 2020, Connie served as the Executive Director of the Korean American Family Services (KFAM) for 11 years. Under Connie’s leadership, KFAM nearly quadrupled its budget and staff, with culturally and linguistically responsive services to immigrant families, particularly those struggling with mental health, domestic/family violence, and acculturation stresses. Prior to joining KFAM, Connie was a public interest lawyer for seven years. She worked at the Housing Rights Center in Los Angeles representing clients in fair housing cases and the American Civil Liberties Union in Chicago working on immigrant’s rights, reproductive rights, post-9/11 racial profiling, police accountability and First Amendment cases. Connie received her BA in Spanish and International Relations from USC and her JD from Georgetown University Law Center.
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Masih Fouladi SCG Member

Executive Director, The California Immigrant Policy Center (CIPC)

Masih Fouladi is CIPC’s Executive Director. Masih has 15 years of advocacy experience, working to protect the civil rights of immigrant communities, focusing on defeating systemic injustices that harass, harm and criminalize communities of color and immigrants through legal, media and grassroots advocacy.
Before joining CIPC, Masih was the Deputy Executive Director of the Los Angeles chapter of the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR-LA). In his role, Masih served as the Founding Director of CAIR-CA’s Center for the Prevention of Hate and Bullying; directed CAIR-LA’s legal, programs and policy response to support Afghan arrivals in the Greater Los Angeles area. He co-authored CAIR-CA’s nationally recognized school bullying report in 2017 and served as the Greater Los Angeles regional anchor for the No Muslim Ban Ever campaign. Masih catalyzed the expansion of immigration services during his time at CAIR-LA that led to an increase of 1,000 clients being served per year and a staff expansion of over 15 immigration practitioners.
Previously, Masih served as the Executive Director of CAIR Washington for three years, where he was appointed by the Washington State Attorney General’s office to serve on a statewide Multidisciplinary Hate Crime Advisory Working Group responsible for updating the state’s hate crimes laws. He also served as a consultant to the City of Seattle on the intersection of technology and civil rights as a part of the city’s surveillance and technology committee.
Masih was appointed by Washington Gov. Jay Inslee to serve on the state’s Census Complete Count Committee. While in Washington, Masih led a successful statewide campaign to pass a religious accommodations bill.
Masih has a Bachelor of Arts in both Economic and Cognitive Psychology from the University of California, Irvine, and a Juris Doctor Degree from the University of California, Davis.
As a Muslim Iranian-American, Masih is passionate about establishing organizational infrastructure that will allow his community to thrive. He is a fan of chai, chocolate and the NBA. He enjoys spending time in nature with his family.

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