Thursday, September 3, 2026 at Noon
Santa Rosa Country Club

with Lisa Frydman, 
Senior Vice President,
KIND (Kids In Need of Defense) 

Lisa Frydman's sponsor is Joe Clenendin,
WACSC Program Committee

About the Program         

        What is the fate of children on our country’s doorstep in 2026? With families in detention, care services struggling, and children forcibly separated from parents, can the situation be described as dire? Two things are certain: traditional U.S. immigrant child protection is being greatly challenged, and the massive reduction in U.S. foreign aid has dismantled humanitarian efforts world-wide.

          And so we welcome Lisa Frydman, an international human rights lawyer and child-migration expert, to address all of this with Children at Risk —New Hazards of Worldwide Child Migration.      

          Looking past the headlines, what is the status of child migration right now? What geopolitical factors and policy changes are impacting it? And, what does this all mean for the safety and well-being of children? With a clear-eyed, empathetic look at declining guardrails, and an overview of vital services that migrants and refugees need so desperately, Lisa Frydman will lay out the full landscape of this crucial subject.   

          Lisa Frydman’s organization is KIND (Kids in Need of Defense), where she serves as Senior Vice President. Her team works in Central America, Mexico, Europe, and the United States to strengthen the rights and well-being of unaccompanied and separated children and youth. Some of the initiatives she supervises include prevention of trafficking and labor exploitation, reintegration assistance for children returning to their country of origin, and gender and migration programs.

           Lisa has worked to advance law and policy for refugee and immigrant women and children through direct representation, impact litigation, policy advocacy, and training/mentoring of attorneys and judges. Prior to her work at KIND she served as Associate Director and Managing Attorney at the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies, and before that she worked at Legal Services for Children San Francisco, and the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center.

          We are honored to present Lisa Frydman on September 3rd.

           See you there!

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