Brad Smith leads Microsoft's Department of Legal and Corporate Affairs, which is responsible for the company's legal work and for government, industry, and community affairs activities.

Since becoming General Counsel in 2002, Smith has led Microsoft's successful negotiations with numerous government agencies and other technology companies on competition and intellectual property issues. He has sponsored the company's efforts to work with governments to protect Internet safety, protect free expression on Internet blogs, and expand philanthropic activities, including through technology training for the underprivileged and improved math and science education in the public schools.

Smith has been involved in refugee and pro bono activities on behalf of Microsoft since joining the company in 1993. Microsoft was the first corporate partner of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, initially helping UNHCR to develop and deploy information technology to provide identity cards and reunite refugee families in Bosnia. Microsoft subsequently has helped UNHCR utilize this and other new technologies around the world.

Microsoft has partnered with law firms in the Seattle area to create Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ), a nationally-recognized pro bono initiative that Microsoft funds and that provides legal representation for refugees in the Puget Sound area. Tapping the services of Microsoft lawyers and paralegals, together with many others in the local legal community, VAIJ's work has ensured that every unaccompanied minor in Washington State who faced a deportation or removal proceeding had the benefit of legal counsel.

Smith also co-chairs the Advisory Board for the Corporate Pro Bono Challenge. Microsoft is a Charter Signatory for the Challenge, a national partnership project of the Association of Corporate Counsel and the Pro Bono Institute, which encourages corporate legal staff and their law firms to participate in pro bono service.

A summa cum laude graduate from Princeton University, Smith received the Class of 1901 Medal, the Dewitt Clinton Poole Memorial Prize, and the Harold Willis Dodds Achievement Award, the highest award given to a graduating senior at commencement. He was a Harlan Fiske Stone Scholar at the Columbia University School of Law, where he received the David M. Berger Memorial Award. He also studied international law and economics at the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland and has lectured at the Hague Academy of International Law.

Angelina Jolie is a co-founder of KIND, the Co-Chair of the Jolie-Pitt Foundation, a Goodwill Ambassador for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), and an award-winning actress. Since becoming a UNHCR Goodwill Ambassador in 2001, Jolie has met with refugees and internally displaced people in more than 20 countries on five continents worldwide and become an eloquent voice on behalf of the displaced, particularly women and children.

Jolie won a Best Supporting Actress Oscar for her performance in 1999's Girl, Interrupted, and has won three Golden Globe awards and two Screen Actors Guild Awards. She was nominated for a Best Actress Oscar for Changeling (2008), directed by Clint Eastwood.

Jolie began appearing in films and TV production in the mid-1990s, winning a first Golden Globe for her role as the wife of the controversial lead character in the 1997 small screen production of George Wallace. She won a second Golden Globe the following year with her title role in Gia, a TV drama about the supermodel Gia Carangi, as well as a Screen Actors Guild Award and an Emmy nomination.

Jolie played a rookie police officer opposite Denzel Washington's veteran detective in The Bone Collector (1999). Her breakthrough performance came that same year with Jolie's portrayal of a mental patient in Girl, Interrupted, for which she won multiple awards, including an Oscar.

Jolie then appeared with Nicolas Cage and Robert Duvall in Gone in 60 Seconds (2000). She followed this in 2001 with the phenomenally successful Tomb Raider, which helped her become a Hollywood superstar. In 2003, she filmed a sequel , Lara Croft: Tomb Raider - The Cradle of Life.

In 2003, Jolie portrayed a United Nations relief worker in the provocative drama, Beyond Borders. The actress co-starred with Brad Pitt in Mr. and Mrs. Smith in 2005. She also appeared in Oliver Stone's ancient Greece epic, Alexander, and action/adventure Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow with Jude Law and Gwyneth Paltrow. She lent her voice to the animated feature Shark Tale, and in 2008, to another animated film, Kung Fu Panda.

In 2006, she appeared in Robert De Niro's The Good Shepherd, about the early history of the CIA, with Matt Damon. The following year, Jolie made her directorial debut with the documentary A Place in Time, which captures life in 27 locations around the globe during a single week.

In the same year, Jolie starred as Mariane Pearl in Michael Winterbottom's documentary-style drama, A Mighty Heart, about the 2002 kidnapping and murder of Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl in Pakistan. The film earned Jolie her fifth Golden Globe nomination and her third Screen Actors Guild Award nomination.

Pamela Passman oversees four main missions: to provide regulatory counsel to business groups and develop corporate positions on public policy issues, such as intellectual property rights, privacy, internet security and safety, international trade, accessibility and telecommunications; to strengthen government and industry relations; to develop partnerships with governments, international organizations, non-profits and industry; and to oversee Microsoft's community and philanthropic investments and outreach. Passman also has leadership responsibilities for Microsoft's cross-company, global corporate citizenship efforts and Microsoft Unlimited Potential, a commitment to bring the benefits of technology to the next five billion people.

From October 1996 through April 2002, Passman served in Tokyo as Associate General Counsel responsible for Microsoft's Law & Corporate Affairs groups in Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and the Peoples' Republic of China, including Hong Kong.

Prior to joining Microsoft, Passman was with Covington & Burling, an international law firm based in Washington, D.C. She also practiced for two years in Japan with Nagashima & Ohno and served as Special Counsel to the Office of Political and Economic Research, Executive Office of the President of Itochu Corporation.

Passman is a member of the Executive Committee of the Board of the Information Technology Industry Council and serves on the Boards of Business for Social Responsibility, the Seattle Art Museum and the National Bureau of Asian Research. Passman is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and the Pacific Council on International Policy.

Passman is a graduate of Lafayette College and the University of Virginia School of Law. She was also a recipient of a one year Thomas J. Watson Foundation grant for independent research in Japan. Passman and her husband and two children reside in Bellevue, Wash.

Lydia G. Tamez directs all of Microsoft's global immigration programs. Certified in 1993 as a Specialist in Immigration and Nationality Law by the Texas Board of Legal Specialization, Tamez guides senior management in formulating U.S. and global immigration policies and practices for the company. She also operationalized Volunteer Advocates for Immigrant Justice (VAIJ), a volunteer effort now in its fifth year which represents asylum seekers and other immigrants including unaccompanied children held in immigration detention facilities in the Seattle area. As part of her responsibilities, Tamez oversees Microsoft's pro bono participation in VAIJ.

Tamez is a member of the American Council for International Personnel, Compete America, the National Immigration Forum, and the Western Immigration Networking Group, and serves on the Board of Trustees of the American Immigration Law Foundation. She is also a member of the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the Washington State Bar, and the State Bar of Texas.

Before joining Microsoft in 1995, Tamez served as an Associate Attorney for nine years at Tindall & Foster, a prominent Houston firm, practicing a full range of family- and employment-based immigration law services for corporate and individual clients. She graduated from Yale University in 1981, where she was a recipient of the Patterson grant to study immigration reform. In 1985, Tamez graduated from Yale Law School, where she represented detained immigrants in the Jerome Frank Legal Services Organization and authored her thesis on the constitutional right to interpretation for immigrants in removal proceedings.

Howard Buffett grew up in Omaha, Nebraska, and has been active in business, politics, photography, agriculture, conservation, and philanthropy. He currently spends the majority of his time operating the Howard G. Buffett Foundation, a private foundation that primarily supports humanitarian initiatives. Buffett also operates a 1,280-acre family farm in central Illinois, manages a 400-acre family-owned farm in eastern Nebraska, and oversees 6,000 acres of farmland in South Africa. Buffett has served in a number of executive positions; served in elected office on the Douglas County Board of Commissioners (Nebraska); on two Office of the United States Trade Representative committees, and as Chairman of the Nebraska Ethanol Authority and Development Board.

Buffett currently serves on the Corporate Boards of Berkshire Hathaway, Inc., an investment holding company; Lindsay Corporation, a world-wide leader in the manufacturing of agricultural irrigation products; and Sloan Implement, a privately owned distributor of John Deere agricultural equipment in North America. Buffett has served on the boards of Archer Daniels Midland, a leading world food processor; Coca-Cola Enterprises, Inc., the largest Coca-Cola bottler in the world; and ConAgra Foods, one of North America's largest food service manufacturers and retail food suppliers. Buffett is a member of the Commission on Presidential Debates. He serves or has served on numerous non-profit boards.

Buffett was appointed a United Nations Goodwill Ambassador Against Hunger in 2007. He has received the Aztec Eagle Award from the President of Mexico, the highest honor bestowed on a foreign citizen by the Government of Mexico and has been recognized by the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture as one of the most distinguished individuals in agriculture. In 2005, he received the Will Owen Jones Distinguished Journalist of the Year Award.

Buffett has traveled to over 90 countries documenting the challenges of preserving our biodiversity while providing adequate resources to support human needs. As a result, he has authored seven books on conservation, wildlife, and the human condition. He has had numerous articles and opinion pieces published in chronicles such as The Wall Street Journal and The Washington Post.

Buffett is married and has five children. He resides in Decatur, Illinois, and South Africa.

Wally has more than 30 years of experience handling sophisticated and complex commercial litigation in courts throughout the country. He has been retained by major corporations, numerous law firms, corporate executives, real estate developers, trade associations, and some of the nation's largest insurance companies in disputes involving commercial contracts, business torts, trade secrets, non-compete clauses, employment practices, lender liability, securities law compliance, and insurance coverage issues. He has represented numerous professional athletes in several high-profile proceedings. He also has represented clients in connection with criminal investigations of business activities. Wally recently was recognized in Chambers USA as "an extremely effective trial lawyer" who has gotten "outstanding results" for his clients. He was inducted as a Fellow of the American College of Trial Lawyers in 2008, and routinely has been selected in the annual publication "Super Lawyers of Washington D.C."

Wally has extensive experience in all forms of alternative dispute resolution. In addition to serving as an arbitrator, he has successfully represented clients in arbitrations and mediations conducted under the auspices of the American Arbitration Association, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, the National Football League and the NFL Players Association, the National Association of Securities Dealers, and various private ADR organizations.

Wally devotes a significant portion of his practice to the representation of liability insurance companies. He provides advice and counsel to major insurers on coverage issues relating to directors and officers liability insurance, professional errors and omissions coverage, employment practices liability, trustee/fiduciary policies, nonprofit/association liability, bankers liability, and fidelity bonds. He has lectured extensively on D&O liability coverage issues and claims arising under the federal securities laws.

In 2008 Wally was appointed as a member of the District of Columbia's Hearing Committee for the Board on Professional Responsibility. He assisted in the establishment, and served on the first Board of Directors, of The Good Samaritan Foundation, a Washington D.C. non-profit organization dedicated to providing training and educational assistance to inner city children.

John Dau is a survivor of a 14-year journey from his home village in Duk County, Sudan in 1987 to his arrival in Syracuse, New York in 2001. As a young boy he fled Sudanese government troops and eventually arrived at the Kakuma refugee camp in Kenya in 1992. During this journey of more than 1,000 miles, he led thousands of younger children through violence and starvation. Selected to come to Syracuse, New York, along with 140 other "Lost Boys of Sudan" in 2001, Dau pursued the American dream. He brought his sister and mother to Syracuse and is now married with a daughter and son.

While working 60 hours a week as a security guard, he completed his Associate's Degree at Onondaga Community College and started his BA in Policy Studies at Syracuse University's Maxwell School of Citizenship.

Dau now speaks professionally throughout the United States and is president of the John Dau Sudan Foundation based in Syracuse, New York. In 2006, he was featured in the award-winning documentary, God Grew Tired of Us, and, with Michael Sweeney, wrote his first book entitled God Grew Tired of Us: A Memoir, published by National Geographic in 2007.

As a human rights activist for the people of Southern Sudan, Dau has lived a remarkable life of cultural adaptation. John has received many prestigious awards, including National Geographic's Emerging Explorers award, and was a Volvo for Life finalist in the Quality of Life category which included a contribution from Volvo of $25,000 to the John Dau Sudan Foundation. Dau was also named a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader for 2008.

As a leader, Dau is an experienced social entrepreneur. He has started three 501(c)3 organizations. He is an advisor for two of these organizations, the Sudanese Lost Boys Foundation of New York and the American Care for Sudan Foundation, both of which operate with independent boards. His primary effort now is to build the John Dau Sudan Foundation into a financially stable organization that supports the building and maintenance of clinics in Southern Sudan.

Sonia Nazario has spent 20 years reporting and writing about social issues, most recently as a projects reporter for the Los Angeles Times. Her stories have tackled some of this country's most intractable problems: hunger, drug addiction, and immigration.

She has won numerous national journalism and book awards and has been named among the most influential Latinos by Hispanic Business Magazine and a "trendsetter" by Hispanic Magazine.

In 2003, her story of a Honduran boy's struggle to find his mother in the U.S., entitled Enrique's Journey won more than a dozen awards, among them the Pulitzer Prize for feature writing, the George Polk Award for International Reporting, the Grand Prize of the Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Award, and the National Assn. of Hispanic Journalists Guillermo Martinez-Marquez Award for Overall Excellence.

Expanded into a book, Enrique's Journey became a national bestseller, won two book awards, and is required reading for all incoming freshmen at 21 universities and dozens of high schools nationwide. It has been selected as a "One City, One Book" read by five cities, and is being made into a movie by Lifetime.

In 1998, Nazario was a Pulitzer Prize finalist for a series on children of drug addicted parents. And in 1994, she won a George Polk Award for Local Reporting for a series about hunger among schoolchildren in California.

Nazario, who grew up in Kansas and in Argentina, has written extensively from Latin America and about Latinos in the United States. She is a graduate of Williams College and has a master's degree in Latin American studies from the University of California, Berkeley. She began her career at the Wall Street Journal, where she reported from four bureaus: New York, Atlanta, Miami, and Los Angeles. In 1993, she joined the Los Angeles Times. She is now at work on her second book.

Kathleen Newland is co-founder of the Migration Policy Institute and directs MPI's programs on migrants, migration, and development and comprehensive protection for refugees and internally displaced people. Her work focuses on the relationship between migration and development, governance of international migration, and refugee protection. Previously, at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, she was a Senior Associate and then Co-director of the International Migration Policy Program (1994-2001). She sits on the Board of the International Rescue Committee, and is a Chair Emerita of the Women's Refugee Commission. She is also on the Board of the Foundation for the Hague Process on Migrants and Refugees.

Prior to joining the Migration Program at the Carnegie Endowment in 1994, Newland worked as an independent consultant for such clients as the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), the World Bank, and the office of the Secretary-General of the United Nations. From 1988-1992, Newland was on the faculty of the London School of Economics. During that time, she also co-founded (with Lord David Owen) and directed Humanitas, an educational trust dedicated to increasing awareness of international humanitarian issues. From 1982 to 1988, she worked at the United Nations University in Tokyo, Japan. She began her career at the Worldwatch Institute in 1974.

Newland is the author or editor of six books, including the first State of the World's Refugees for UNHCR in 1993, and No Refuge: The Challenge of Internal Displacement for the United Nations in 2003. She has also written eleven shorter monographs as well as numerous articles and book chapters.

Newland is a graduate of Harvard University and the Woodrow Wilson School at Princeton University. She did additional graduate work at the London School of Economics.

Ellen Sauerbrey was the Assistant Secretary of State for Population, Refugees and Migration from 2006 - 2008. Previously, President Bush nominated Sauerbrey in 2002 to be U.S. Representative to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, with the rank of Ambassador.

President Bush also appointed Sauerbrey to represent the United States at the March/April 2001 session of the UN Commission on Human Rights and to the U.S. delegations to the 2002 and 2003 sessions of the Economic and Social Council and the UN General Assembly. During the 2003 session of the General Assembly, she led the negotiations that culminated in the successful adoption of the U.S.-proposed resolution on Women and Political Participation, with 110 co-sponsors.

From 1990-1991, Sauerbrey was National Chairman of the American Legislative Exchange Council, the largest voluntary membership organization of state legislators. As chairman, she launched Project Freedom, to promote ideals of personal and economic freedom in emerging democracies.

Sauerbrey has served as the Minority Leader of the Maryland House of Delegates and was the 1994 and 1998 Republican nominee for Governor of Maryland.

A former teacher, she was elected to represent her northern Maryland district in the Maryland Legislature from 1978-1994, and served as Minority Leader from 1986-1994. An expert in economic, budget, and fiscal issues, she served on the Economic Matters, Ways and Means, and Appropriations Committees, among others.

Sauerbrey was born and raised in Baltimore. She graduated summa cum laude from Western Maryland College.

Ronald Schechter is a partner in Arnold & Porter's government contracts practice group, where he specializes in government contracts, national security, construction law, and commercial litigation. He has served as lead attorney in litigation involving government contracts, construction, and intellectual property matters before the U.S. Court of Federal Claims and its predecessor, the U.S. Claims Court; federal district courts; the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the District of Columbia, Third, and Federal Circuits; the General Accounting Office; agency boards of contract appeals; and various alternative dispute resolution forums. Prior to joining Arnold & Porter LLP, Schechter served as a trial attorney for the U.S. Department of Justice, Commercial Litigation Branch.

Schechter has extensive experience in all aspects of government contracts law, including contract formations issues, bid protests, claims litigation, mergers and acquisitions, False Claims Act cases, and suspension and debarment matters. He has assisted clients in the national security area address government contracts issues unique to that area, including obtaining liability protection for their products and services. His construction law experience includes counseling clients on all aspects of the construction process and handling construction disputes on behalf of owners, prime contractors, subcontractors, developers, and architects.

Schechter also has litigated numerous commercial and intellectual property disputes before various courts and arbitration forums. His experience includes litigation under the Administrative Procedure Act and the Freedom of Information Act.

In addition, Schechter has handled numerous internal investigations and compliance reviews for government contractors in various industries. He has represented clients in such matters before the Department of Justice, the Defense Contract Audit Agency, and the Inspectors General of various agencies.

Schechter has been a featured speaker at West Publishing's "Government Contracts Year in Review," speaking on subjects that have included compliance, past performance, and Homeland Security. He is a frequent lecturer and author on various subjects associated with government contracts, construction law, and legal ethics, and has served on the Advisory Board of the Costs, Pricing and Accounting Report.

Ms. Young brings extensive immigration policy experience to her role at KIND. Most recently, she served as Chief Counsel on Immigration Policy in the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Immigration, Border Security and Refugees for Senator Edward M. Kennedy. She held prior immigration policy positions with organizations such as the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children, the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops, and the National Council of La Raza. She has also written numerous articles, reports and cutting-edge op-eds on the plight of unaccompanied children.

Wendy has received a number of awards and honors for her work on immigration rights including: Nominated as one of two NGO representatives to participate in Seminar XXI Program on U.S. Foreign Policy by Massachusetts Institute of Technology and National Defense University (2002); Honored by Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center for work on behalf of women and children detainees (2002); Child Advocacy National Certification of Recognition, American Bar Association, in recognition of contributions advancing the welfare of children (2001); Human Rights Award, American Immigration Lawyers Association, in recognition of the work of the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children on behalf of women and child asylum seekers (1999).

Ms. Price comes to KIND with a wide range of immigration and refugee protection experience. In her most recent role, Abby was the International Rescue Committee's Global Advisor on the Prevention of Abuse and Exploitation, helping to prevent abuse and exploitation of beneficiaries by humanitarian actors. The work involved collaboration with various UN entities, training in a variety of cultural settings, investigation into allegations in numerous countries and a clear understanding of the vulnerability of children in the refugee and post-conflict context. Abby has also worked with UNHCR on refugee protection issues, durable solutions and resettlement.

Closer to home, Abby has served as an advocate and representative for numerous children appearing before the Executive Office of Immigration Review and the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, directed large scale pro bono immigration programs representing Haitian asylum seekers - including a significant number of unaccompanied children - and served as the legal director for several organizations where the issue of unaccompanied and separated children was prominent. In addition to direct service and legal services management, Abby has worked as the advisor and director on immigration and refugee protection issues for several large nongovernmental organizations.

Abby's work has earned her the Arthur Helton Human Rights Award from the American Immigration Lawyers Association. Abby is a graduate of Case Western University School of Law. She received her LLM from New York University.

Megan McKenna has been writing about humanitarian issues for more than 10 years. She is a co-author of a memoir about the life of a refugee from Darfur who risked his life to translate for journalists and nongovernmental organizations. The Translator was published in 2008 by Random House. Before that, Megan worked for more than five years for the Women's Commission for Refugee Women and Children as a senior coordinator for media and communications where she led and managed a variety of communications activities, and contributed to advocacy. Megan has also worked with Doctors Without Borders, UNICEF USA and the Robin Hood Foundation. She started her career with CNN International in London.

Megan has a master's degree from Columbia University's School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA) and a BA from the University of Michigan. Megan likes to run marathons.

Nissa has over a decade of experience in the independent sector and has served international, national, and local nonprofits. Her areas of expertise include resource development, program management and nonprofit governance. In her most recent role as VP for Program & Development at the T. Howard Foundation, Nissa provided all oversight and resource development for a nationwide career development program recruiting minority college students pursuing careers in the multimedia/entertainment industry. Through her professional experiences and community involvement, Nissa has become well-versed in a variety of issues affecting disadvantaged communities and youth. Her past employment includes Enterprise Community Partners, The Kingsbury Center, and the US Committee for Refugees and Immigrants. Nissa received her B.A. from Denison University in Granville, Ohio, and was the university's first African-American female to earn a degree in PPE (Philosophy, Political Science, Economics), a rigorous interdisciplinary program established at Oxford University. She also holds a J.D. from the George Washington University Law School.

Prior to joining KIND, Liz worked with the Community Services Team of Holland & Knight LLP in Washington, D.C., providing pro bono immigration representation, focusing mainly on refugee resettlement and complex asylum claims. A native Texan, Liz attended law school at the University of Houston School of Law where she received recognition from the Pro Bono Initiative Program for dedicating over 120 hours of public service. While at the University of Houston, Liz spent a year working at the Immigration Clinic, interned at Lonestar Legal Aid and worked for the immigration law firm of Harry Gee, as well as Nguyen, Jazrawi, & Chen. Upon relocating to Washington D.C., she spent her first few months at the Women's Refugee Commission, assisting with a report on family detention in the United States and changes enacted by the 2008 ICE Detention Standards to address immigrant families' and children's physical and emotional needs. Liz completed her undergraduate studies at Rice University in Houston, Texas, receiving a Bachelor of Arts in both English and Women and Gender.

Ann joins KIND after spending nearly two years at the Department of Homeland Security with the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Ombudsman's Office in Washington D.C. As an Immigration Law Analyst, Ann developed recommendations for Congressional review, assisted individuals and employers with case problems and researched immigration issues. Ann traveled extensively throughout the United States to meet with USCIS leaders and staff, as well as immigration stakeholders and community-based organizations to conduct outreach and discuss immigration concerns. Previously, Ann was an attorney for the International Institute of New Hampshire, where she represented refugees, victims of domestic violence and other low-income immigrants. While at DePaul University College of Law, she was selected to be a Sullivan Fellow. Prior to law school, Ann was an AmeriCorps Volunteer in Seattle and mentored high-risk youth. She also lived and worked in Romania as a Peace Corps volunteer from 1999 - 2001, teaching English at a Hungarian high school and volunteering at a local orphanage.

Yasmin is originally from Houston and most recently worked as a Staff Attorney at ProBAR in Harlingen, Texas representing detained adults and unaccompanied children in their immigration proceedings.  ProBAR is a free legal services organization dedicated to providing legal education and representation to detained men, women and children in South Texas.  Prior to joining ProBAR, Yasmin was a litigation associate at the law firm of Mayer Brown LLP in Houston, Texas from 2004 to 2007, where she undertook a substantial amount of pro bono work that included immigration defense, death penalty defense, and briefing before the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.  Yasmin graduated from the University of Texas School of Law in Austin in 2004 where she was a member of the Immigration Clinic, interned at the Political Asylum Project of Austin, and spent six months working at the International Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica.  Yasmin also completed her undergraduate studies at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated in 2000 with a Bachelor's of Arts and a Bachelor's of Journalism.

Originally from Canada, Lindsay holds a JD from the University of Toronto and a BA from McGill University. Prior to law school, Lindsay was an intern at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees as well as the International Bureau for Children's Rights. She also helped facilitate a refugee sponsorship program in Montreal for four years. Lindsay spent a year doing human rights work in Brazil and has also worked in Guatemala, Bolivia, and Nepal. Throughout law school, Lindsay was deeply involved with the immigration department of a poverty law clinic called Downtown Legal Services. As a legal caseworker, she represented clients in immigration and asylum proceedings.  Upon graduation, Lindsay worked at a boutique law firm in Canada. After moving to Los Angeles, Lindsay was a volunteer attorney at Public Counsel where she worked on asylum cases. Lindsay is licensed to practice law in both Canada and the United States and speaks Spanish, French and Portuguese.

After graduating from UCLA School of Law in 2006, Gladis went to work for the South Texas Pro Bono Asylum Representation Project (ProBAR), a joint project of the American Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the Texas Bar.  During her two years there, she worked exclusively with unaccompanied immigrant children detained at facilities along the Texas-Mexico border.  She has extensive experience working with children seeking asylum before immigration court and working with families of detained children.  Her commitment and passion for this work stems in part from her own experience as an immigrant child from El Salvador.  During law school, Gladis worked on issues affecting immigrant and working communities as a law clerk for various well-respected organizations, including Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), and Greater Boston Legal Services.

Wendy began representing unaccompanied children in immigration and family law matters on a pro bono basis as an associate at Cahill Gordon & Reindel LLP in New York, where she worked from 2000 to 2008.  For her work with child clients seeking Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, she has twice received a Pro Bono Publico Award from The Legal Aid Society of New York in 2007 and 2008.  She was an intern at the International Rescue Committee in the summer of 1998 and again during 2007, and her article on asylee access to public assistance appeared in Interpreter Releases in 1999.  Previously she was an Ombudsman at the Office of the New York City Public Advocate.  While in law school, she was an exchange student at the University of Cape Town's law school, and holds a J.D. from New York University School of Law and an A.B. from Barnard College.

Prior to joining KIND, Diana worked for a New York City based private immigration law firm handling litigation before the immigration courts in St. Louis, Chicago, Dallas and Buffalo. Diana also brings to KIND five years of non-profit experience having worked for the Archdiocese of New York, Catholic Charities Department of Immigrant and Refugee Services. At Catholic Charities, Diana worked on a wide array of immigration cases from Cuban adjustments to refugee family reunification as a staff attorney. During the implementation of the LIFE Act, which opened the door for a limited number of immigrants to become permanent residents, Diana coordinated the department's filings for more than 1,000 clients. As Supervising Attorney, Diana worked with pro bono counsel and law interns on cases involving domestic violence, special immigrant juveniles and removal defense. Diana attended Hofstra University where she majored in philosophy and psychology, and received her JD from New York Law School. She is fluent in Spanish and is studying French.

Anne Marie graduated from Georgetown University Law Center. Throughout law school, she interned with a myriad of organizations including the Legal Aid Society - Juvenile Rights Division; the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration; the Capital Area Immigrant's Rights Coalition; and the Center for Applied Legal Studies at Georgetown University Law Center. Upon graduation , Anne Marie received a prestigious two-year Jesuit Refugee Service Fellowship, during which she conducted Know Your Rights presentations in South Florida detention centers; advocated for detainees with the Department of Homeland Security; conducted intake assessments; and represented detained immigrants in removal proceedings. After moving to New York, Anne Marie represented the NYC Administration for Children's Services, filing petitions in Brooklyn Family Court on behalf of abused or neglected children and seeking permanency for foster children. She continued this work with the Westchester County Attorney's Office, representing the Department of Social Services in the Westchester County Family Courts, as well as before the New York State Office of Children and Family Services.

After graduating from Georgetown University Law Center in 2006, Paul served for two years as the Howrey/Georgetown Law Center Pro Bono Fellow at Howrey LLP in Washington, DC.  Paul worked full-time on a variety of pro bono matters in areas including immigration, family law, landlord-tenant, public benefits, and criminal appeals.  He also assisted the Pro Bono Partner in administering the firm wide pro bono program.  While at Howrey, he established a citywide veterans benefits pro bono program.  Paul has worked for the Archdiocesan Legal Network of Catholic Charities DC and the Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, and served as a defense attorney for Georgetown Law Center's Juvenile Justice Clinic.  He was a founding board member of D.C. Lawyers for Youth, and also serves on the boards of GayLaw and the Washington Council of Lawyers.  He originally hails from North Carolina.

Lina graduated from Fordham University School of Law in 2009. While at Fordham, Lina participated in the Immigrants' Rights and Access to Justice Clinic and the Immigration Advocacy Project where she helped battered women with their VAWA petitions. She was the recipient of an Archibald R. Murray Service Award for her public interest work while in law school. She also interned for Justice Charles E. Ramos in the New York Supreme Court and was a summer associate with Mayer Brown LLP in New York City where she worked on a pro bono project involving unaccompanied alien children. Lina received a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and Spanish from Drew University in Madison, NJ. While at Drew she interned for Senator Robert Menendez and for the United Nations Office of the General Board of Church and Society. She is fluent in Spanish.