Katy Murdza Email & Phone Number

Houston, Texas, United States

• Work with local immigration and criminal justice partners and coalitions to implement campaigns for city and county policies that decrease deportations and increase access to social services for immigrants;
• Use direct action, advocacy, civic engagement, education, and other tools available arrest, prosecution, criminalization, incarceration, and deportation, and other forms of criminalization;
• Support strategy development with local partners, including goals, objectives, tactics, and timeline of the campaigns;
• Map the local political and legal landscapes of designated localities;
• Build relationships and advocate with key stakeholders and targets in the campaigns, including city and county officials;
• Facilitate the implementation of policy advice through technical assistance and training from the ILRC Texas attorneys;

San Antonio, Texas, United States

• Collected information on advocacy trends in detention through individual and group meetings with partner legal service providers
• Created and implemented advocacy questionnaires to track advocacy issues reported by pro bono attorneys
• Created Take Actions for advocates to contact elected and agency officials on priority issues
• Coordinated coalition partners in filing oversight complaints on detention issues including failure to prevent the spread of COVID-19 and access to counsel violations
• Co-authored a special report, The Legacy of Racism in the History of the U.S. Border Patrol
• Wrote several fact sheets, including Immigration Detention in the United States by Agency and Oversight of Immigration Detention: An Overview

Dilley, TX

• Collected data and declarations to track advocacy issues among women and children detained at the South Texas Family Residential Center, including medical care, pregnancy, language access, family separation, port of.
• Trained and supervised volunteers in the tracking of advocacy issues
• Contributed information on serious advocacy cases to litigation and national complaints
• Communicated with anti-family detention stakeholders to discuss advocacy priorities
• Liaised with local ICE and USCIS representatives
• Spoke on behalf of project: 50 quotes and video/audio segments including NPR, The Guardian, L.A. Times, Univision, and local San Antonio media

• Manage 9 graduate assistants and organize institute and community data projects
• Teach weekly data analysis practice session to 15 graduate students
• Teach workshops for students and faculty on data analysis software
• Assist graduate students with data collection and analysis through one-on-one appointments
• Salinas Police-Community Relations Impact Evaluation: Created a community survey and other evaluation tools to assess the impact of grant-funded programs
• One Village Partners VBA Userforms Project: Created 6 VBA Userforms to improve data input for an NGO in Sierra Leone

Greater St. Louis Area

• Performed anti-human trafficking outreach and education for the Rescue and Restore Coalition, focusing on Spanish-speaking populations.

Monterey, California

• Support Farmlink in gathering background information from and providing technical business assistance to small agricultural business owners
• Assisted Brand Geek in renewing its B Corp certification and publishing its first impact report to comply with State of Nevada benefit corporation requirements

Calca, Peru

• Designed a survey, collected data in Peru, and analyzed the results as a participant in a series of 3 graduate courses
• Researched the perceptions about, effects of, and reactions to climate change by farmers in the Sacred Valley region

Las Margaritas De Chepo, Panama

• Participated in 2 months of training including 110 hours of Spanish, 72 hours of Teaching English as a Foreign Language, and 36 hours of project management and leadership
• Developed a curriculum for and taught student English Clubs and adult classes with over 100 participants
• Facilitated a monthly seminar series “Building Blocks to Reading and Routines” for 36 English teachers
• Served as editor of the Teaching English Project’s newsletter which was distributed to 300 teachers
• Translated Peace Corps Panama’s Leadership Development for Global Education curriculum into Spanish
• Interpreted for American volunteer groups during medical clinics and church events 3 weeks per year

Nogales, Sonora, Mexico

• Volunteered 30 hours per week providing services to Mexican and Central American migrants near the Mexico-U.S. border including free phone calls, recuperation of confiscated property, location of lost family members.
• Lived in long-term volunteer apartment and participated in regular planning meetings for the organization
• Organized colunteer schedule and meetings and communicated with non-governmental and Mexican government agency partners

South Bend, Indiana Area

• Interned 6 hours per week for university credit
• Conducted research for Director of Development to compare current methods with those of other organizations
• Investigated potential client services and revenue opportunities
• Communicated with Spanish-speaking clients when needed

Lawrence, MA

• Interned 20 hours per week and completed related coursework as part of Notre Dame's Summer Service Learning Program
• Rotated through various services including transitional housing, homeless shelter, HIV/AIDS housing, daycare, soup kitchen, food bank, and thrift stores
• Presented to staff on what I had accomplished and how the internship could be improved.

Lawrence, Massachusetts

• Interned 20 hours per week as part of Notre Dame's Summer Service Learning Program
• Assisted teacher with a remedial class for students who had failed French or Spanish
• Taught 2 students Spanish grammar lessons, administered quizzes, and conducted review games

Master’S Degree, International Policy And Development

Activities and Societies: Amnesty International, Roteract Club, Softball Team

Bachelor Of Arts (B.A.), Political Science And Spanish, 3.58

Activities and Societies: Swing Dance Club Secretary and Instructor, Logan Recreation Club Treasurer (activities with developmentally.