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Immigrant Women: Their struggles and hopes

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Our guest Jill Hanson is a semi-retired labor lawyer, who now devotes almost full time to various activities on behalf of the rights of immigrants. She is active with the Palm Beach County Coalition for Immigrant Rights, El Sol, the Labor Coalition for Latin American Advancement, and recently was involved in the "We Are Florida" campaign, which defeated efforts to pass state anti-immigrant legislation in Florida. 
 
Ms. Hanson graduated with honors from Rutgers Law School, where she was an editor of the Law Review.  She received her undergraduate degree from Manhattanville College.  While employed at the Jewish Theological Seminary in New York, she became active in the union for administrative employees.  She was a founding member of the New York City chapter of CLUW, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, and became involved in many activities for equal rights for women, as a result.
 
Working with immigrant women, she has come to realize their tremendous courage, and at the same time, the great obstacles they face, in trying to make lives for themselves in this country.
 

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