We connected with Breanne Palmer, attorney and immigration policy advocate, to discuss how U.S. immigration and citizenship policies have been shaped by the historical exclusion of Black people, particularly enslaved Africans who were denied legal personhood and citizenship. We discuss how the Fourteenth Amendment sought to rectify this injustice through birthright citizenship and how anti-Black immigration policies persist, disproportionately affecting Black migrants. 

We connected with Breanne Palmer, attorney and immigration policy advocate, to discuss how U.S. immigration and citizenship policies have been shaped by the historical exclusion of Black people, particularly enslaved Africans who were denied legal personhood and citizenship. We discuss how the Fourteenth Amendment sought to rectify this injustice through birthright citizenship and how anti-Black immigration policies persist, disproportionately affecting Black migrants. 

Everyone is entitled to zealous legal representation. Everyone is not entitled to my zealous representation.

Liberation is a collectivist project.

Black immigrants and Black Americans cannot get free without one another.

Workplace trauma is looking more and more like the rule, not the exception.

Networking doesn’t have to be weird.

The work you do [is not] the person you are.

I’m informally coining the term, “position origination fatigue.”

Unpacking some interview jargon.

The career retrospective continues.

Being Black, Immigrant, and Undocumented in the Era of #BlackLivesMatter.

Revisiting 45’s Anti-Immigrant Executive Orders.

Why should Black people care about immigration?

What does Black immigration look like?

Black U.S. citizenship was an American afterthought.

Meetings don’t just happen.

Oh, you weren’t also collecting Playbills as a kid?

A lateral move that widened the scope and reach of my work.

A transformative experience in radical growth.