This post was written by HIRC summer intern Savannah Cornejo Garcia. Savannah is in her senior year studying Political Science and Psychology at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Currently preparing to attend law school next year, she intends to pursue a joint JD-MSW degree. She hopes that her work as a lawyer will one…
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(En español abajo) This post was written by HIRC summer intern Alma Martinez Ramirez. She is a rising senior at the University of Minnesota – Twin Cities with a Major in Political Science and a double minor in Philosophy and Public Health. On November 12, 2019, the U.S Supreme Court heard oral arguments regarding the Trump…
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One thing is for sure: I didn’t wake up one day and realize I wanted to become a social worker. This realization came with many academic and life experiences that brought me to pursue this journey. In undergrad, I majored in English Writing and wasn’t sure where life would take me after that. My first…
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This is a reflection piece by HIRC Summer Intern Alma Estefani Martinez Ramirez Today marks a historic day: June 19th is known as Juneteenth, which memorializes the day slavery ended in the United States in June 19, 1865. On this day, Texas was officially the last state liberated from slavery, making the United States free…
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We are very pleased to welcome three undergraduate interns to the Clinic! Diego Flores Diego is a first-year student at Harvard College from the Bronx, NY. The work that HIRC does is extremely personal to Diego as it was just recently that his parents were able to complete their application period to become lawful permanent…
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I wanted to intern at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinical Program (HIRC) so much that it was the only internship I applied for as a law student during my last year of law school. I know it was a risky move, but thankfully, I got lucky. My time at HIRC has been illuminating. I…
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What does the day-to-day look like for a social work intern at HIRC? Well, it could look like many different things. At HIRC, we work with a diverse population of clients. Our work consists of providing both emotional support and case management support based on a case-by-case basis. Depending on a client’s needs, a general…
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Before interning at the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic (HIRC) my understanding of social work was limited to the definitions I had picked up from psychology textbooks. I knew that social work entailed providing people with emotional support. Beyond that, I vaguely understood what kind of work ‘social services’ encompassed. In my mind, social work…
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We all have heard the phrase that parents would do anything for their children, and my mom was no exception. When I was about eleven years old, my mom, my brother and I left El Salvador because of poverty, violence, and lack of opportunity. We packed our hopes and dreams, and our desire to stay,…
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Every summer, HIRC hosts students from across the country for internships at the Clinic. We are thrilled to welcome our latest group of interns who will be working with us for the next few months. Law students Sarah M. Deibler (Cleary Fellow) Sarah is a third-year S.J.D. student at Harvard Law School, where her research…
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