U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres speaks about the need to protect the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the United States.

 

 Midwest Light of Human Rights Awards (MLHRA) Speakers and Honorees from left: James Morsch of Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP; Greg McConnell of Winston & Strawn LLP; former NIJC client Christine; U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres; Chicago Bulls Forward Luol Deng; former NIJC client Maria Mateo; 10th Annual MLHRA Chair Larry Schaner of Jenner & Block LLP; former NIJC client Kamil Hassan; NIJC Director Mary Meg McCarthy

 

 

10th Annual Midwest Light of Human Rights Awards Chair Larry Schaner of Jenner & Block LLP welcomes guests and honors NIJC Director Mary Meg McCarthy for 10 years of service

 

Heartland Alliance President Sid Mohn welcomes guests

 

  

Former NIJC client Kamil Hassan presents the Jeanne and Joseph Sullivan Award to Chicago Bulls Forward Luol Deng

 

James Morsch of Butler Rubin Saltarelli & Boyd LLP accepts the Midwest Light of Human Rights Award

 

  

Former NIJC client Maria Mateo presents the Midwest Light of Human Rights Corporate Award to Greg McConnell in honor of Winston & Strawn LLP

  

U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres speaks about the need to protect the human rights of refugees and asylum seekers in the United States

 

 NIJC Director Mary Meg McCarthy delivers closing remarks

 

 Retired Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals Judge Abner Mkva, McCarthy, Schaner, and Guterres

 

Rita Bouaoun of Baker & McKenzie LLP and Elizabeth Dallam of the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees

 

Nick Pyatl of Jenner & Block LLP, Eric Berndt of NIJC, Wade Thomson of Jenner & Block LLP, and Manoj Govindaiah of NIJC

 

Claudia Valenzuela of NIJC, Mary Black of Heartland Alliance, and Amelia Wilson of Davidson & Schiller, LLC

 

Ed Silverman of Illinois Department of Human Services Bureau of Immigrant and Refugee Services, Michele Gaboudin and Althar Sultan Khan of UNHCR, and Greg Weingarten of Interfaith Refugee and Immigrant Ministries

 

Jack Greenberg of The Western Union Company, Terry Feiertaag of Hughes Socol Piers Resnick & Dym, Ltd., McCarthy, Melville Washburn of Sidley Austin LLP, Natalie Spears of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal LLP, Guterres, and Sue Lin of NIJC

 

Julie Stevenson and Rishard Cooper of Excelon Corp, Clarisol Duque of the Office of U.S. Senator Richard Durbin

 

Kissule Magala Katende of National Public Radio, Thomson, Schaner, Guterres

 

Spears and Sara Rankin of Kirkland & Ellis LLP

 

Susan Gzesch of the University of Chicago Human Rights Program and Betsy Brill of the Libra Foundation

  

Thomas Albrecht of UNHCR, McCarthy, and Spears

 

Greg McConnell and associates from Winston & Strawn LLP

 

Mateo and Sarah Doody of NIJC