EP. 59: ADHD and Justice Sensitivity with Immigration Attorney Taylor Levy - a podcast by Tracy Otsuka

In Episode #59 of ADHD for Smart Ass Women, Tracy introduces her guest Taylor Levy. Taylor is an immigration attorney in El Paso, Texas. She was the Legal Coordinator at Annunciation House, El Paso’s largest migrant shelter. During the summer and fall of 2018, Taylor worked with dozens of pro bono attorneys who traveled to El Paso from across the U.S. to provide free legal representation to immigrant parents separated from their minor children because of the “zero-tolerance” policy enacted by the Trump administration. Attorneys volunteering with Annunciation House provided legal consultations and pro bono reunification to more than 400 separated families. Currently, Taylor focuses her work on asylum-seeking families who have been returned to Mexico under the “Remain in Mexico” program. She also mentors attorneys from around the country on these cases and does advocacy, media, and policy work centered on protecting vulnerable asylum seekers arriving at our border.

Taylor talks about an article that ProPublica just published about her clients, Honduran refugees Mirza, David and their kids. 

Taylor also shares:

• How she ended up in law school while working full time and raising a child as a single mother
• The circumstances surrounding her own ADHD diagnosis 
• Symptoms that she always wondered about but now with the benefit of hindsight she recognizes as clearly ADHD?
• What has changed since her diagnosis?
• How she ended up representing immigrants and asylum seekers before she even went to law school
• What she believes the key to living successfully with ADHD is?
• Her novel approach to medication
• Her number one workaround
• Her advice to a young woman just diagnosed with ADHD
• Information about the Mitchell Hamline School of Law Hybrid Program?

Resources:

Taylor’s email: taylorlevylaw@gmail.com

https://www.propublica.org/article/women-to-one-side-men-to-the-other-how-the-border-patrol-new-powers-and-old-carelessness-separated-a-family?fbclid=IwAR1cyQ24MclMBGa0MPWZpsrZH13O1Nl6bxMsz_NzdTLryah4zpZCe5dUt2U

The nonprofit that Taylor mentioned: www.santafedreamersproject.org

The Santa Fe Dreamers Project provides free legal services to immigrants and refugees to promote economic empowerment, community development, family unity, and liberation from detention.

And Taylor’s law school! https://mitchellhamline.edu/academics/j-d-enrollment-options/blended-learning-at-mitchell-hamline/

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