Maunica Sthanki
Supervising Attorney
Post-Deportation Human Rights Project
Email: pdhrp@bc.edu
Phone: 617.552.9261
Ms. Maunica Sthanki has been working in the field of immigration for over eight years, and has four years of direct immigration litigation experience. She has successfully litigated dozens of cases at the immigration court level, the Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Circuit Courts. Ms. Sthanki specializes in the field of criminal immigration law, but has litigated a variety of cases, including asylum, cancellation of removal, and adjustment of status.
Ms. Sthanki was a staff attorney for ProBAR (South Texas Asylum Representation Project) where she worked exclusively with adult immigrant detainees at the Port Isabel Detention Center. She provided immigrant detainees with direct representation, pro se assistance, and legal rights presentations. She also helped her clients deal with the day-to-day struggles of detention, from family difficulties to mental health issues. Prior to ProBAR, Ms. Sthanki worked at immigration firms in New York City where she successfully litigated several Federal Circuit Court appeals.
Ms. Sthanki has a B.A in English and International Studies from Louisiana State University and a J.D. from the University of Texas School of Law.
Prof. Daniel Kanstroom
Boston College Law School
email: kanstroo@bc.edu
Daniel Kanstroom is the Director of the Boston College Law School International Human Rights Program and Clinical Professor of Law. Professor Kanstroom has lectured on human rights and immigration law at many U.S. universities and community events, as well as at the University of Paris, the University of Kent (Canterbury), and the Monteverde Institute (Costa Rica). He has been a visiting professor at Université du Littoral Côte d’Opale (Boulogne sur Mer). He has published widely in the fields of U.S. immigration law, criminal law, and European citizenship and asylum law in such venues as the Harvard Law Review, the Yale Journal of International Law, the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal, and the French Gazette du Palais. His most recent book, Deportation Nation: Outsiders in American History, was published in 2007 by Harvard University Press.
Professor Kanstroom is the founder and director of the Boston College Immigration and Asylum Clinic, in which students represent indigent non-citizens and asylum-seekers. He is also on the Board of the Directors of the PAIR Project, and was rapporteur for the American Branch of the Refugee Law Section of the International Law Association. He has extensive experience litigating immigration and asylum cases at every level of the U.S. legal system. Professor Kanstroom completed his B.A. at State University of New York at Binghamton, his J.D. at Northeastern University, and his LL.M. at Harvard University.
Prof. M. Brinton Lykes
Boston College Lynch School of Education
email: lykes@bc.edu
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M. Brinton Lykes is Professor of Community/Social Psychology at the Lynch School of Education at Boston College. Her research interests include gender, culture, and theories of the self; effects of state-sponsored terror and organized violence; human rights policy and mental health interventions; participatory action research; and community-based strategies for change. Her many publications have appeared in Social Science & Medicine, American Journal of Community Psychology, Psychology of Women Quarterly, and the Journal of Social Issues.
Professor Lykes is involved extensively in Boston-area communities and abroad. She is a founder and program committee member of the Ignacio Martín-Baró Fund for Mental Health and Human Rights, an Advisory Committee Member of Women’s Rights International, a former committee member and Chair of the American Psychological Association's Committee on International Relations and Psychology, and a volunteer consultant to the Association of Haitian Women in Boston, among numerous other commitments. She also serves on the Editorial Boards of Action Research and Peace and Conflict: Journal of Peace Psychology, and as a reviewer for many other journals. Professor Lykes received her B.A. at Hollins University, her M.Div. from Harvard University, and her Ph.D. at Boston College.
Prof. Qingwen Xu
Graduate School of Social Work, Global Practice
email: qingwen.xu.1@bc.edu
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