Celebrating Hope for Immigrants Honorees

EILS Civic Impact Honoree, Amy Eusebio

EILS is pleased to recognize Amy Eusebio for her valuable contributions to ensuring that immigrants find supportive community here in Philadelphia and have viable, meaningful opportunities to pursue their livelihood, hopes, and dreams. Amy is a proud first-generation American, Afro-Latina, and daughter of Dominican immigrants. Eusebio joined the City of Philadelphia in 2018 as Municipal ID Program Director and was responsible for launching the PHL City ID. She has more than 15 years of experience working in non-profit social services. Eusebio’s previous roles included a focus on ensuring the programs she was part of were culturally responsive to the immigrant communities they were intended to serve. She completed her undergraduate and graduate education in social work, earning a bachelor’s degree from Temple University and a master’s from the University of Pennsylvania. She is currently the Executive Director of the Office of Immigrant Affairs of Philadelphia. 

EILS Champion Honoree, Jaya Ramji-Nogales

EILS is pleased to recognize Jaya Ramji-Nogales for her critical leadership and influence in EILS’ development and growth, and commitment to improving the lives of immigrants and their families. Dean Ramji-Nogales played a pivotal role in EILS’ history as a former board member and friend of the organization. Associate Dean for Research at Temple Law, Jaya specializes in immigration law, international law, procedure, and process. She currently teaches Civil Procedure, Evidence, Refugee Law and Policy, and the Temple Law Asylum Project, which provides tailored country conditions research to support asylum seekers and their lawyers. Dean Ramji-Nogales’ research areas include asylum and refugee law, global migration law, and empirical assessment of asylum adjudication.
She is the co-author of Refugee Roulette, which was the first empirical assessment of all four levels of the U.S. asylum system, and more recently, The End of Asylum, which examines changes to the asylum system under the Trump administration and offers suggestions for reform. 

MUSICAL PERFORMANCE BY INTERMINABLE

Interminable is a Philly-based futuristic fusion project that explores our connections as diasporic peoples through original music in Spanish and English, weaving together the common threads of improvisation and swing from Mexican traditional son jarocho music, jazz, rock, funk, and electronic music. This innovative tapestry of sounds is expressed through the band’s unique combination of instruments.  Ximena Violante sings and plays the electric guitar and jarana, a guitar-like instrument from the afroindigenous son jarocho tradition of Mexico.  Marty Gottlieb-Hollis on trumpet and St. Clair Simmons on trombone join forces as a horn section.  Matt Jernigan on drums and Yeho Bostick on bass solidify the rhythmic backbeat. During the event, Interminable will perform their piece El Camino in honor of the immigrants that we serve. 

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