Menalsa at Yale Law School

menalsa 2022-2023 welcome event 🧿💙 welcome (back) to yls! 🥰

MENALSA retreat with our habibtis 💙

Thank you to our law firm sponsors for their generosity this year!

Jenner & Block
Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz
Morgan Lewis & Bockius

YLS MENALSA, along with our counterparts at NYU, UCLA, USC, and Michigan have started a GoFundMe to support humanitarian relief in Beirut. Although the explosion occurred more than two weeks ago, many Lebanese still desperately need food, water, shelter, and medical care that their government is incapable of supplying. We encourage all who can to consider donating. All proceeds will directly benefit Beirut’s overwhelmed hospitals and volunteer organizations on the ground. You can donate via the GoFundMe link in our bio or via Venmo to Anthony Tohme (Anthony-Tohme-1)

Dinner at Lalibela with Professor Bali (YLS ‘99) last Thursday!

Photos from last week, when YLS Dean Gerken hosted MENALSA students in her home for dinner. @ New Haven, Connecticut

This week, we are thrilled to feature one of our AMAZING alumni and an incredible advocate, Sirine Shebaya.
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Sirine Shebaya is a longtime immigrant rights advocate who focuses on combining litigation and public campaign strategies to defend and advance the rights of immigrant communities of color. She has litigated several high-profile cases alongside and on behalf of communities impacted by the Muslim Ban, family separation, discriminatory police practices, and immigration detention and enforcement. In partnership with local community groups, she led a campaign that resulted in eliminating ICE holds in most jurisdictions in Maryland. Sirine's work advancing and defending immigrant rights has earned her numerous awards. She previously worked at the ACLU of Maryland and the Capital Area Immigrants’ Rights Coalition. She is very excited to be leading NIPNLG into its next chapter in the fight for immigrant justice.

Introducing this week’s feature!

Sherry is a 2L at the law school and the Treasurer of MENALSA. She is from Cleveland, Ohio, but her parents immigrated from Egypt to the United States in 1995. She completed her undergraduate studies at Cornell. While in college, she was involved in the Clarke Initiative for Law and Development in the Middle East and North Africa. Between college and law school, she worked at Google in Operations. She spent the past summer working at Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison in New York City. She is a die-hard fan of the Bachelor and all reality TV.