Our guest speaker for March 9 is Martha Mercado, Director of the Welcome Center at the Good Neighbor Settlement House in Brownsville and Facilitator for the Rio Grande Valley Welcoming Committee. She brings an empathetic, trauma-informed perspective and a community-centered approach to the border. Martha is also studying to be a Department of Justice representative through the Villanova Interdisciplinary Immigration Studies Training for Advocates (VIISTA) Program.
The General Meeting of the IWC takes place on Zoom on the second Thursday of each month at 10 a.m. Join us on Thursday, March 9, at 10 am. If you subscribe to our newsletter a Zoom link and agenda will arrive in your inbox early next week.
- Slides presented at the February 2023 meeting are available here.
- Slides of earlier meetings are available on the IWC website here.
Each 90-minute meeting consists of a speaker from a collaborating organization, a report of current immigration/detention news as covered by the media, reports from IWC committees and ministries, a financial report, info about the number of people served by our various ministries, and any other current issues which affect our volunteers and supporters.
