Camille Mackler

Ms. Mackler (she/her) has been on the frontlines of nearly every major U.S. immigration crisis of the past two decades. She was one of the first attorneys at JFK Airport during the 2017 Muslim Travel Ban, helped coordinate the evacuation of Afghan allies after the Taliban takeover, and worked to reunite asylum-seeking families separated at the border. That operational experience, spanning federal policy design and its consequences on the ground, continues to shape her current work.She is the founder and former CEO of Immigrant ARC, a New York-based nonprofit where she helped grow combined city and state investment in immigration legal services from $10 million to over $100 million, and helped draft the nation’s first state-based right-to-counsel law for immigrants facing deportation.Ms. Mackler has testified before the House Foreign Affairs Committee and argued cases before U.S. Federal Courts of Appeals. She was named a 2024 Trailblazer in Law by City & State magazine and holds degrees from Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service and New York Law School.