Julie E. Dinnerstein

Julie E. Dinnerstein serves as the Co-Director of Sanctuary for Families' Immigration Intervention Project. As Co-Director of the Immigration Intervention Project, Julie has worked at the NYC Family Justice Center - Brooklyn, the NYC Family Justice Center - Queens and the New York City Family Justice Center - Bronx. She teaches immigration law at the School of Professional Studies and at Baruch College, both part of the City University of New York (CUNY) and serves as a part-time career counselor at the Center for Public Interest Law at Columbia Law School. She is a member of the New York State Bar Association (NYSBA) and serves on the NYSBA's Special Committee on Immigration Representation. Julie's previous experience includes serving as the Deputy Director for Immigration Advocacy and Training at the New York Immigration Coalition, the Director of the Immigration Intervention Project at Sanctuary for Families, an associate at the law firm of Cleary, Gottlieb, Steen & Hamilton and a law clerk to the Honorable Jack B. Weinstein in the Eastern District of New York. Julie frequently trains and writes on domestic violence and immigration legal issues. Julie is a graduate of Columbia College and Columbia Law School, where she served as an editor on the Columbia Law Review, and the recipient of Columbia Law School's Public Interest Law Foundation's 2005 Public Interest Achievement Award and an honoree at the 8th Annual AILA NY Chapter Immigration Law Symposium, December 8, 2005.