Angela Edman Email & Phone Number

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provide legal representation to low-income immigrants before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services (USCIS) and Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts).
• Manage high caseload as only attorney covering DC-MD region for National JFON Network.
• Manage three legal clinics per month at host churches in Washington, D.C.; and Hyattsville, Baltimore, and Gaithersburg, MD to provide legal consults and advice to immigrants in community.
• Supervise legal assistant, teams of volunteers, and interpreters in office and at legal clinics.
• Deliver Know Your Rights (KYR) presentations to communities throughout the DC-MD region.
• Participate in advocacy through larger JFON network and community partnerships.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provide legal representation to low-income immigrants before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and Executive Office for Immigration Review (Immigration Courts).
• Maintain high caseload as only attorney in office including: asylum, U visas, T visas, VAWA, TPS, SIJS, removal defense, DACA, waivers, family-based petitions, adjustment of status, and naturalization.
• Provide legal consultations to immigrant community members at three legal clinics per month at host churches in Washington, D.C.; and Hyattsville, Baltimore, and Gaithersburg, MD.
• Deliver Know Your Rights (KYR) presentations to communities throughout the DC-MD region.
• Participate in advocacy through larger JFON network and community partnerships.

Baltimore, Maryland Area

• Staff Attorney for Access to Justice
• Managed Detained Torture Survivors’ Legal Support Network, a legal services program that provided Know Your Rights presentations in detention facilities, screened for torture, assessed legal needs, advocated for.
• Provided pro bono legal representation to detained immigrants in removal proceedings.
• Authored First Steps: An LIRS Guide for Refugees, Asylum Seekers, and Migrants Released from Detention, which provides information on rights, responsibilities, and eligibility for benefits based on immigration status..
• Advocated for legal and policy reforms such as community alternatives to detention, improved CFI, humane enforcement practices, increased ICE & CBP accountability, and improved parole policy.

Hong Kong

• Staff Attorney (Jan. 2011 – Dec. 2012)
• Provided legal representation and advice to clients from African and Asian countries seeking asylum/refugee status before UNHCR at first instance, appeal, and re-opening stages. Conducted client intakes and.
• Developed expertise on sexual & gender-based violence, and on working with torture survivors.
• Developed HKRAC’s approach to working with counselors of severely traumatized clients.
• Supervised Refugee Law Clinic students on asylum cases at HK Univ. and Chinese Univ. of HK.
• Trained and recruited pro bono attorneys, caseworkers, and interns; supervised casework.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided direct legal services to women involved in the criminal justice system in civil and criminal law, including immigration, public benefits, bankruptcy, and family law including parental rights, divorce, and.
• Represented clients in parole revocation hearings and facilitated transfer to rehabilitative facilities.
• Drafted legal briefs and motions for submission to DC Superior Court and U.S. Parole Commission.
• Developed pro se and other educational materials, conducted trainings in and out of confinement.
• Supervised interns, volunteers, and legal assistant.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Successfully represented clients in complex asylum cases and adjustment of status applications. Won challenging Central American gender and domestic violence-based asylum case. Conducted interviews and counseling.
• Represented two organizations at the Inter-American Commission for Human Rights in ongoing cases: Drafted and submitted merits brief for Jamaican case on police brutality and extra-judicial killing. Coordinated Working.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided updates and analyses on substantive and procedural developments at the ICTY and the War Crimes Chamber of Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• Drafted legal briefs and memoranda for international criminal tribunal clients, including the International Criminal Court, on subjects including interlocutory appeal, victim participation, and due process.
• Helped develop a guide on international criminal law for a Bosnian judicial client, to support the reform of Bosnia’s new constitution, criminal codes, and legal system to comply with international law.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Provided direct legal services to women involved in the criminal justice system in a variety of areas of criminal law and civil law, including family law, bankruptcy, the intersection of criminal law and immigration.
• Conducted jail and prison visits, investigated confinement conditions.
• Conducted legal research and drafted memoranda of law.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Directed, edited, and produced three issues of legal publication focusing on human rights. Managed all editing and production.
• Solicited articles from field practitioners, managed staff of 26 law students, and created staff trainings.

Bosnia And Herzegovina

• Wrote daily legal briefs and analyses of trials at the War Crimes Chamber in Sarajevo.
• Researched sentencing policies and gender-related litigation at the War Crimes Chamber.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Wrote column covering substantive and procedural legal developments at the International Criminal Court.

Greater New York City Area

• Co-created and managed Responsibility to Protect (R2P) Project, dedicated to advocating governments and the international community to respond more effectively to genocide and humanitarian crises.
• Created and executed advocacy strategies for endorsement of R2P and the ICC at meetings with UN, government, and non-government officials; wrote advocacy letters, press releases, and reports.

Greater New York City Area

• Researched trial of Slobodan Milošević and other ICTY issues, wrote daily summaries and legal analyses.
• Conducted advocacy and implementation of International Criminal Court Campaign.

Juris Doctor, Law, Human Rights

Activities and Societies: Student Attorney in the International Human Rights Law Clinic, Editor-in-Chief of the Human Rights Brief, Dean's.

Bachelors, Political Studies, Human Rights

Activities and Societies: Editor-in-Chief: BardPolitik, Resident Assistant, Research Assistant: Human Rights Project