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Current Chair:<\/strong> Past Chairs:<\/strong> Through our ongoing efforts, we have learned the landscape of refugee assistance programs and recognize the extraordinary challenges of finding housing and employment in three short months after arriving to a new place without family ties or networks. Even for refugees with job-ready skills and work authorization, the challenges can be daunting.<\/p>\n Making a difference will require employers to lead by creating roles for refugee-lawyers and accelerating the hiring timeline to respond to their financial realities. The individuals in our network are bright, highly skilled, fluent in English, extremely hardworking, and eager to learn. They will add value to your organization and to our legal community.[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Our educational mission” style=”arrow” css=”.vc_custom_1706114727525{border-top-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 22px !important;border-top-color: rgba(18,130,159,0.33) !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}” el_class=”afgan_expander”]Beyond addressing the immediate needs of resettled Afghan judges and lawyers, SABA San Diego seeks to learn from their stories to foster dialogue and exchange. Through virtual presentations, we aim to provide refugee-lawyers with a basic introduction to the state and federal court system and explore the life of a civil or criminal case. We hope that in the future, we can also host events to learn from our Afghan lawyer counterparts how best to uphold the rule of law.[\/vc_toggle][vc_toggle title=”Partners and resources” style=”arrow” css=”.vc_custom_1706114743643{border-top-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 22px !important;border-top-color: rgba(18,130,159,0.33) !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}” el_class=”afgan_expander”]\n [vc_row fullwidth=”true” fullwidth_content=”false” css=”.vc_custom_1651699889824{padding-top: 80px !important;padding-right: 24px !important;padding-bottom: 80px !important;padding-left: 24px !important;background-color: #f9f9f9 !important;}”][vc_column][vc_row_inner animation=”fade-in”][vc_column_inner width=”1\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1660327090350{padding-top: 8px !important;padding-right: 24px !important;padding-left: 24px !important;}”][vc_single_image image=”1283″ img_size=”full” add_caption=”yes” alignment=”center”][\/vc_column_inner][vc_column_inner width=”2\/3″ css=”.vc_custom_1660327101977{padding-top: 0px […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1217"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1781,"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1217\/revisions\/1781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sabasandiego.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nArwa Zakir Kakavand<\/p>\n
\nMaryam Baqi, February 2022 \u2013 July 2022
\nMytili Bala, July 202 \u2013 January 2024<\/p>\n[\/vc_column_text][\/vc_column_inner][\/vc_row_inner][vc_row_inner animation=”fade-in” css=”.vc_custom_1706114544985{padding-top: 24px !important;}”][vc_column_inner css=”.vc_custom_1581014264831{padding-right: 24px !important;padding-left: 24px !important;}”][vc_toggle title=”Our approach” style=”arrow” css=”.vc_custom_1706114716192{border-top-width: 2px !important;padding-top: 22px !important;border-top-color: rgba(18,130,159,0.33) !important;border-top-style: solid !important;}” el_class=”afgan_expander”]Our immediate priority is to assist refugee-lawyers in San Diego in securing meaningful employment in the legal sector as case assistants, file clerks, or legal secretaries at law firms, non-profits, and educational institutions. We pair each person with a mentor, help update CVs and reference lists, search job boards, schedule mock interviews, and reach out to our networks to find and create opportunities. For Afghan refugee-lawyers outside San Diego, we connect them with mentors from other SABA chapters who can assist with the job search process.<\/p>\n\n
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