Immigration Clinic Staff Attorney Sabrina Rivera was a panelist at the Latin American Cinemateca of Los Angeles (LACLA)’s 30th anniversary celebration of Cheech Marin’s directorial debut of Born in East LA, hosted at the Mexican Consulate in Los Angeles, on November 10. The panel discussion addressed current immigration policies, mass incarceration and deportation, and how the arts can be used to create social change. Other participants included Mark Torres, co-host of the radio show, Travel Tips from Aztlan; Marissa Montes, Co-Director of Loyola Law School’s Immigration Justice Clinic; Oscar Torres, co-writer of Innocent Voices, a film about El Salvador’s civil war in the 1980s told through the eyes of an 11-year-old boy; and, Lena Khan, director of The Tiger Hunter, a comedy loosely based on her father’s experience emigrating from India to the United States in the 1970s. Over 100 LACLA students were in attendance.
Sabrina Rivera Serves as Panelist at Celebration Hosted at Mexican Consulate
