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;• Coordinate with the ILRC Texas team to conduct training for local organizers and advocates that build capacity and the understanding of issues involving the intersection of the criminal and immigration systems (“crim-imm”);• Work with local partners and the ILRC Texas team to produce community education materials that break down crim-imm and enforcement issues;• Support communications work for local policy campaigns.

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• Authored 66 blogs on immigration policy for the Council’s blog, Immigration Impact

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 entry denials, access to counsel, and detention conditions • 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• Provided direct legal services to detained asylum seeking families in credible fear proceedings• Served as primary point of contact between American Immigration Council and on-the-ground staff

• 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• Served as Regional Safety Warden, communicating safety information to 12 volunteers and interacting with 4 local law enforcement agencies during security incidents

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, and dehydration-prevention kits• 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.