David Vines Email & Phone Number

New York, Ny, Us

New York, Ny, Us

New York, United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

New York, United States

• Built and managed a database of arguments raised by commenters in opposition to the Trump administration’s proposed asylum restrictions to help litigators challenge the regulations in federal court.• Established partnerships with nine immigration advocacy organizations and four law firms. On January 8, 2021, a lawsuit brought by one of our partner organizations resulted in a nationwide injunction against the regulations.

• Organized a summer fellowship program that matched 116 law students with 58 legal services and community organizations engaged in COVID rapid response and social justice advocacy

New York, Ny

• Drafted bond appeals for detained clients; prepared visa applications; accompanied clients after release from detention; wrote a brief appealing client’s U visa denial; and took affidavits in both English and Spanish.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

• Wrote an extensive memo identifying legal vulnerabilities in HUD’s proposed changes to the Fair Housing Act’s Disparate Impact Rule; met with the White House Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to share our concerns.• Authored a comprehensive memo analyzing Fourth Circuit precedent on defamation claims and demonstrating how our client’s case could be distinguished from the court’s stringent, defendant-friendly actual malice framework.• Pressured Google to strengthen its anti-harassment policies and restrict “hoaxer” content in response to threats made against our client after video of his daughter’s murder was weaponized by YouTube conspiracy theorists.

Dilley, Texas

• Helped dozens of detained asylum-seeking women and children prepare for credible fear interviews; accompanied clients to their interviews; and led Spanish-language orientation sessions for newly-arriving families.• Worked with three reunified families appealing negative findings of credible fear; prepared declarations detailing each mother’s asylum claim and conveying the hardship they felt after spending months separated from their children.• Wrote two legal briefs for women appealing negative findings of credible fear.

Austin, Texas

• Prepared visa applications for survivors of human trafficking; took declarations in Spanish; helped Spanish-speaking clients complete their application forms; and wrote memos on novel legal issues.

Ciudad De México

• Co-authored the report "Fake Jobs for Sale: Analyzing Fraud and Advancing Transparency in U.S. Labor Recruitment," which synthesized a decade of internal data and quantified the scale of fraud perpetrated against migrant laborers.• Joined an outreach trip to San Luis Potosí, Mexico; documented migrant workers’ complaints about mistreatment; and participated in workshops informing workers of their rights under the H-2 visa program.• Handled Spanish-language client intake and, over the course of several months, assisted a Spanish-speaking client who filed a wage theft and retaliation complaint with the California Department of Labor.

Ciudad De México

• Taught elementary English classes and Spanish-language Know Your Rights classes to children and adolescents.

Brooklyn, Ny

• Co-authored and edited a report advocating the Federal Reserve devise a more equitable response to future financial crises and provide greater relief to working families.• Wrote a series of memos on a plaintiff’s right to discovery fees under the Freedom of Information Act.

Chicago, Il

• Assisted public defenders with casework and processed expungement requests for juvenile criminal records.

Chicago, Il

• Helped clients facing foreclosure assemble loss mitigation packages and apply for loan modifications.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Conducted policy research, authored and edited newspaper articles, blogs, official questionnaires, and three comprehensive policy documents for the candidate on a variety of city issues.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Compared state-run college scholarship programs; evaluated state scholarship standards, student debt burdens, and higher education funding models across thirty states.• Adapted my own undergraduate research on Tennessee’s tuition-free community college program for online publication following February 2015 announcement of President Obama’s free community college plan.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Read, edited, and commented on first drafts of student papers; held conferences with each student to help refine their arguments and hone their writing skills.• Underwent extensive training that focused on facilitative, collaborative tutoring, and working with students from diverse backgrounds, identities, and levels of writing proficiency.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Oversaw the allocation of over $44 million in segregated university fees.• Led a successful year-long overhaul of the committee’s funding criteria in accordance with the “viewpoint neutrality” standards set forth in Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System v. Southworth, 529 U.S. 217 (2000).• Wrote an appeal to the University of Wisconsin Board of Regents challenging the Chancellor’s allocation of more than $220,000 in student fees to the Wisconsin Union without approval from the committee.• Organized a statewide advocacy campaign against a provision in the state budget revoking a degree of student control over student activity fees. On June 30, 2013, the governor heeded our request for a veto.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Served as the chief advisor to the UW-Madison student body president.• Scheduled and participated in meetings with ASM committee chairs, University of Wisconsin administrators, and Wisconsin State legislators.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Recruited, hired, trained, and managed a team of thirteen Campus Vote Organizers at eight University of Wisconsin System campuses. Our non-partisan vote drive registered over 6,000 students in advance of the fall 2014 election.

• Responsible for leading daylong vote trainings that teach students about electoral power, best practices for registering voters and running GOTV drives, and how to institutionalize voter registration on their campus.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Worked as the logistics and volunteer coordinator for a free conference attended by 350 student activists.• Responsible for booking housing, workshop rooms, food preparation space, and coordinating volunteers, as well as being the 24/7 emergency contact during the conference.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Coordinated five Student Vote Organizers at UW-Madison who registered 2,985 voters.• Recognized by United Council as the Student Vote Organizer of the Year and nominated by the United States Student Association for National Vote Organizer of the Year.

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Hired by Professor Katherine J. Cramer to find and analyze local newspaper articles for her 2016 book, "The Politics of Resentment: Rural Consciousness in Wisconsin and the Rise of Scott Walker."

Madison, Wisconsin Area

• Co-authored and edited the candidate’s platform, environmental plan, statement of values, model for local engagement, and numerous endorsement questionnaires during both of his successful county board elections.

Education record

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science, Educational Policy Studies

Activities and Societies: Associated Students of Madison, Writing Fellows Program

Education record