Leading Migrant Rights' Organization Recognizes Professor with Prestigious Award

Professor Jayesh Rathod and Anita Sinha, practitioner-in-residence at the Immigrant Justice Clinic,
with their students. 

Photo credit: Armando Gallardo


On Nov. 18, 2015, Centro de Los Derechos del Migrante (CDM), a transnational migrant rights organization founded by Rachel Micah Jones ‘03, presented Professor Jayesh Rathod with a Breaking Boundaries Award for his work as director of American University Washington College of Law’s Immigrant Justice Clinic. The award recognizes the clinic’s history of supporting migrant workers’ rights through innovative applied research and public advocacy.

The Immigrant Justice Clinic provides representation on a broad range of cases and projects involving individual immigrants and migrants, and their communities, both in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and overseas. Among other achievements, the clinic’s student attorneys argued a case before Virginia Supreme Court, represented migrant women and their children being held in New Mexico’s immigration detention center, and researched a number of immigration issues, including a report on the experiences of immigrant guest workers who staff the traveling fair and carnival industry in the United States.

Professor Rathod was honored with the award during the CDM’s 10th anniversary celebration at the Mexican Cultural Center in Washington, D.C.