CAMPFIRE: A Conversation about Immigration

Sunday, January 19, 2025, 6:00 PM

CAMPFIRE presents | A Conversation about Immigration feat. Rosie Read of Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Program (WIAP) + Stefania Sisenia of Voices JH | Sunday, January 19, 6:00 p.m. - 7:30 p.m., Virginian Saloon

This month, CAMPFIRE welcomes two huge-hearted culture-shaping nonprofit leaders for a meaningful, necessary conversation about the experience of immigrants in Jackson, the work of advocacy, and what solidarity and hope looks like in the face of a new administration’s restrictive policies.

Rosie Read is the founder of Wyoming Immigrant Advocacy Project (WIAP). She is a bilingual immigration attorney with more than fifteen years of experience and an established community leader on immigration issues in the Teton region and beyond. She is also an adjunct immigration law professor at the University of Wyoming College of Law.

Before launching WIAP, Rosie served as an immigration staff attorney at the ACLU of Wyoming, assuming responsibility for creating a new immigrants’ rights program and expanding the organization’s efforts to safeguard immigrant rights around the state. Prior to her tenure at the ACLU, Rosie was the Teton Area Program Director for Climb Wyoming, a statewide nonprofit program that equips low-income single mothers with job skills and facilitates their career placement. In recognition of her leadership within the Climb program during the coronavirus pandemic, Rosie earned a nomination as a 2020 Wyoming Business Report Woman of Influence.