Join Us: SFIC Monthly Breakfast October 10th, 2024

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Monthly Breakfast October 10th, 2024

Please join us on Thursday, October 10, 2024

8:00 am - 9:30 am

Heritage Hall // St Mark's Lutheran Church

(1111 O'Farrell Street // SF/CA 94109)

Parking is available at St. Mary's Cathedral

(1111 Gough Street, SF/CA 94109)

Please print the Parking Permit below and place it on your dash.

Please do not park in the St. Mark's Lutheran Church lot.

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Breakfast Host

Compassionate Community Care

Welcome/Reading of Interfaith Statement

Michael G. Pappas, Executive Director

San Francisco Interfaith Council

Reflective Moment

Father Donal Godfrey

Chaplain, University of San Francisco

Topic: Humanizing Immigration

Please join us for a timely and important conversation on immigration issues with Professor Bill Ong Hing, a national immigration expert, law professor, and author, and Lariza Dugan Cuadra, a local and national community leader and director of the Central American Resource Center (CARECEN SF). The discussion will be facilitated by SFIC Board Member Tessa Rouverol Callejo.

The speakers will address the danger and impact of highly polarizing, racially charged, and dehumanizing narratives that depict people who migrate as a threat to community health and wellbeing, rather than human beings seeking a new life for themselves and their families and/or asylum as they flee violence and other drivers in their countries of origin.

Our speakers will help us to see the opportunities for welcoming and supporting migrants in our local community and moving towards a more just, and humane set of policies and practices that align with core tenets in our many faith traditions.

Bill Ong Hing, Professor of Law and Migration Studies, University of San Francisco, and Professor of Law and Asian American Studies Emeritus, U.C. Davis.

Professor Hing founded the Immigrant Legal Resource Center in San Francisco 1979 and helps to direct the USF Immigration and Deportation Defense Clinic.

His books include Humanizing Immigration: How to Transform Our Racist and Unjust System (2023), American Presidents, Deportations, and Human Rights

Violations (2019), Immigration Law and Social Justice (2018); Ethical Borders—NAFTA, Globalization and Mexican Migration (2010); Deporting Our Souls—Values, Morality, and Immigration Policy (2006),

Defining America Through Immigration Policy (2004), and Making and Remaking Asian America Through

Immigration Policy (1993).

He was co-counsel in the U.S. Supreme Court asylum precedent-setting case

INS v. Cardoza-Fonseca (1987) and also represented the State Bar of California before the California Supreme Court in In re Sergio Garcia (2014) involving bar membership for undocumented law

graduates.

Lariza Dugan Cuadra, Executive Director, Central American Resource Center - CARECEN SF

In her role as Executive Director, Lariza is committed to continuing the Central American Resource Center --CARECEN SF’s 38+ years empowering and responding to the needs, rights and aspirations of Latinx, immigrant, and under-resourced families in the San Francisco Bay Area – building leadership to pursue self-determination and justice.

Prior to joining CARECEN SF in 2012, Lariza managed community building initiatives and public service grants at the Mayor’s Office of Housing and Community Development. While at San Francisco’s local PBS station KQED–Education Network she implemented early education, media literacy and Latin@ outreach initiatives.

In 2003 she founded Puentes Consulting focused on new media, cultural content review and community development initiatives aimed at lifting the intellectual, economic, cultural and civic contributions of migrants to the social fabric of this nation and countries of origin.

She currently serves as Board Treasurer of Alianza Americas– A transnational network of 50+ immigrant-led organizations across the United States and Latin America; She is a member elected Concilio Member of the San Francisco Latinx Parity and Equity Coalition, and 2023 How Women Lead, Latina Cohort Fellow.

Tessa Callejo, Philanthropy, Movement and Nonprofit Consultant

Ms. Callejo has over 40 years of experience providing strategic leadership and advising to immigrant, philanthropic and faith community organizations in the San Francisco Bay Area in California.

Ms. Callejo currently serves as a board member of the San Francisco Interfaith Council and provides professional advising services to nonprofit organizations such as CARECEN and the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, and an array of foundations engaged in promoting social justice and immigrant inclusion in the United States.

She has served as a nonprofit executive director, program lead for the FAITHS Program and senior program officer for the Power Pathway at the Bay Area’s San Francisco Foundation, and as a philanthropic and community leader building support for and investment in immigrant and refugee communities.

From 1986 through 1993 Ms. Callejo worked for the Catholic Charities Immigration and Central American Refugee Programs building support for the refugee community and founded and led a statewide faith-based coalition, the Interfaith Coalition for Immigrant Rights, to advocate for, support and welcome immigrants from countries around the world. During her earlier career working with faith communities and the Central American community she led numerous religious community delegations during the civil wars in El Salvador and Guatemala; and supported the founding of CARECEN San Francisco in 1986.

Faith Journey

Ignatius Bau

Mr. Bau is an independent public policy consultant, working on issues of health equity and immigrant justice with community-based organizations, state government agencies, national health care organizations, and foundations. His family's immigration experience began with his mother's flight from China because of persecution for her Catholic faith. He practiced immigration law for over ten years, drafted the 1989 San Francisco City of Refuge ordinance, and authored a book on the sanctuary movement for Central American refugees.