Mission Statement

AIJP’s mission is to promote and protect the human rights of immigrants and refugees throughout Alaska by providing critical services to this underserved population, including immigration legal services, language interpretative services, training and educational programs.

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Alaska Immigration
Justice Project
431 West 7th Ave.
Suite 208
Anchorage, AK 99501
Phone: 907-279-2457(AIJP)

About Us

The Alaska Immigration Justice Project (AIJP) is the only agency in Alaska dedicated to protecting the human rights of immigrants and refugees. Founded in 2005, AIJP staff provides statewide comprehensive immigration legal services. Collectively, AIJP Board and staff have more than 25 years of legal experience serving Alaska’s immigrants and refugees. AIJP staff provides services statewide, traveling to many communities throughout Alaska including, Unalaska, Sitka, Ketchikan, Kodiak, Juneau, Fairbanks, Kenai and Homer. AIJP’s legal service priorities include representing immigrant crime victims and people fleeing persecution and torture in their home countries.

In addition to providing quality direct legal services, AIJP staff members serve as a critical resource for state and federal public agencies on issues involving immigrants and refugees. Health care providers, social service providers, state officials, criminal defense attorneys, prosecutors and judges are just a few of the professionals in our state who rely on the expertise of the AIJP staff.

In 2007, AIJP opened the first statewide Language Interpreter Center (LIC). The LIC partners the public and private sector to offer statewide training for interpreters as well as provide referral services for all businesses and agencies in need of interpreter services. The LIC is working with foreign language interpreters as well as Alaska Native interpreters.

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Board Members

President
Bill Saupe

Vice President
Anastacia Smelova

Treasurer

Yaso Thiru

Secretary

Tracy Speier

Indra Arriaga

Randi Sweet

Susy Buchanan

Sarah Leonard

Raul Preciado

Mara Kimmel

Kate Hohman

Staff Members

Robin Bronen
Executive Director

Jason Baumetz
Supervising Staff Attorney

Dan Rodgers
Staff Attorney

Arundel Pritchett
Staff Attorney

Heather Stenson
Staff Attorney

Ana Lucero
Partial BIA Accredited Representative

Dulce Whited
Outreach Advocate

Carmen Sanchez
Administrative Assistant

Barb Jacobs
Language Interpreter Center
Program Manager

Emily Scholz Walker
Language Interpreter Center Coordinator

Nathalie Washington
Language Interpreter Center Project Specialist, AmeriCorps VISTA

Kari Robinson
Statewide Language Access and Rural Domestic Violence Coordinator

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