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On Tuesday, February 13, 2018, at the Annual Meeting of Members, AABANY presented the Committee of the Year Award to the Immigration Law Committee for their impactful programming throughout 2017 to help protect and advance the rights of immigrants during a year when immigration news and issues were at the forefront. Accepting the award are Co-Chairs Amanda Bernardo, Susan Akina and Poonam Gupta (l. to r.), flanked by President Dwight Yoo on the left and Executive Director Yang Chen on the right. Congratulations to the Immigration Law Committee on a well-deserved award! For more information about the Immigration Law Committee, visit this link. (Photo: Tristan Loanzon.)

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The Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. has announced the 10 delegates to the Filipino-American Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) 2017, including Brooklyn native Amanda Bernardo, Esq. They will be traveling in an immersion trip to the Philippines to meet with leaders of government, industry, business, culture, and social enterprise from October 8 to 14. An immigration attorney, Bernardo is the chair of the Immigration Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, and the Public Relations chair of the Filipino American Lawyers of New York. She recently collaborated with Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas to educate Filipino immigrants on their rights in the United States. For her FYLPRO legacy project, she plans to launch a U.S.-wide “Know Your Rights and Resources” program for new Filipino immigrants. The other FYLPRO delegates are: Marjorie Baltazar (Chicago, IL). She is the Principal of [...]

The Philippine Embassy in Washington, D.C. has announced Amanda Bernardo, AABANY’s Immigration Committee Co-Chair, as one of the 10 delegates to the Filipino-American Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) 2017.

Congratulations to Amanda on this achievement and recognition!

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