Isadora Jaffee

Isadora Jaffee is a staff attorney with the Removal Defense Project at Catholic Migration Services. Isadora graduated from City University of New York (CUNY) School of Law in May 2021, where she was the chair of the International Law Society and held leadership positions in several noncitizen justice groups. There she also represented under supervision an asylum client for CUNY Law’s Immigrant and Noncitizen Rights Clinic (INRC) and worked on three civil rights cases as a part of CUNY Law’s Creating Law Enforcement Accountability and Responsibility (CLEAR) clinic. Before joining Catholic Migration Services, she interned in The New York Immigrant Family Unity Project (NYIFUP) unit of The Legal Aid Society and the Immigration unit of Prisoners’ Legal Services. Isadora also worked part-time at Queens Defenders and Legal Outreach Inc. As a baby and between her time in college and law school, Isadora lived in Japan. She was an English teacher in various public schools for three years and later a research fellow, producing research on the US Occupation’s attitude and policies towards migrants in Japan and the lasting effects today. She also worked in immigration legal service organizations in Tokyo. Isadora speaks Japanese and some Spanish and is admitted to practice law in New York.