It’s match season for Immigrant Justice Corps Fellows and host organizations.

The candidates are amazing — all have hands-on experience with direct immigration representation in clinics, internships, or externships; many have foreign language skills; an amazing number will bring diversity to the bar; and every last one has a demonstrated commitment to advocating for people in need of champions. I’m really blown away.

I’d be happy to work with any of these young lawyers, but of course the purpose of the match is to find the best fit between candidates and organizations. Our top goal as a host organization is to expand the number of people practicing immigration and child advocacy law in West Virginia, offering aspiring members of our bar the additional training they need to practice in those areas on their own. I’d be delighted to have any of these candidates as colleagues in our small but mighty West Virginia immigration bar in the coming years and decades.

Thank you, Immigrant Justice Corps, for bringing us together!