Catherine Tactaquin is Director and one of the founders of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights, an alliance of local and national organizations and activists from the immigrant, labor, religious, civil rights and human rights communities. The organization promotes rights for all immigrants throughout its coordination of national advocacy campaigns, coalition-building, and support for immigrant community organizing and empowerment.

Ms. Tactaquin sits on the executive committee of Geneva-based Migrant Rights International, which is building a global campaign to promote migrant rights. She frequently writes and speaks on the issue of migration in the global era, including the issues of borders, the internationalization of labor, and undocumented migration. She works closely with environmental organizations, and has helped to expose the "greening of hate" - the movement of conservative population and environmental forces against immigration.

She is also active in the Filipino community, where she began her organizing experience over twenty-five years ago, and helped to found Filipino Civil Rights Advocates, the first national Filipino civil rights organization. She is currently a member of its National Council.

Additional Affiliations:

• National Board, Poverty, Race and Research Action Council, Washington, D.C.
  
• Steering Committee, Urban Habitat Program, San Francisco
  
• National Board, Bannerman Fellowship Program and Recipient, Charles Bannerman
  Memorial Fellowship, for outstanding minority activists, 1991