Join the Conversation on Immigrant Rights at the Brooklyn Museum

The president’s January executive order that banned travelers from seven countries from entering the United States has affected Brooklyn in myriad ways, tearing apart families, causing massive protests, and putting immigrant communities here on edge.

Now, the Brooklyn Museum and Brooklyn Community Foundation are holding a panel to get in-depth perspective on the issue from the leaders of groups who work for immigrant interests every day.

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Defending Immigrant Rights: A Brooklyn Call to Action will discuss the effects of President Trump’s executive order on Brooklyn’s immigrant communities. Leaders of community organizations that are part of the Immigrant Rights Fund, which is funded by the Brooklyn Community Foundation, will speak.

Panelists include activist and Brooklynite Linda Sarsour, the executive director of the Arab American Association of New York, who has said she would like to be mayor of an independent Brooklyn.

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Other panelists are Murad Awawdeh of the New York Immigration Coalition, Carl Lipscombe of the Black Alliance for Just Immigration, Lisa Schreibersdorf of Brooklyn Defenders Services, and Nayim Islam of DRUM/Desis Rising Up and Moving. The panel will be moderated by Cecilia Clarke, president and CEO of the Brooklyn Community Foundation.

The event, created in concert with Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, will take place Thursday, February 9 from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. at the Iris and B. Gerald Cantor Auditorium at the Brooklyn Museum. It is free of charge to attend. For more information, click here.

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