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Arnoldo García Director of the Immigrant Justice & Rights Program 510-465-1984 ext. 305	Colin Rajah Director for the International Migrant Rights and Global Justice Program 510-465-1984 ext. 306	Catherine Tactaquin Executive Director 510-465-1984 ext. 302	Diana Pei Wu Program Director of Education & Capacity Building 510-465-1984 ext, 304

Arnoldo García is Director of the Immigrant Justice & Rights Program at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and heads up HURRICANE: The Human Rights Immigrant Community Action Network. Arnoldo edits Network News, the National Network’s newsmagazine, and represents NNIRR on the regional coordinators committee of the “Liberty & Justice for All Campaign” with the Washington, D.C.-based Rights Working Group  In 2006 Arnoldo launched a national community dialogue on ending militarization and State violence in border control and immigration enforcement.  2007, Arnoldo was presented with the “Cesar E. Chavez Leadership Achievement Award,” recognizing his lifelong commitment to community organizing and defense of rights. His essay on the significance of the massive 2006 immigrant community mobilizations, “Immigrant Rights and Power: Transforming Social Justice, Dreaming A Different World,” was published by the Southern California Library for Social Research journal. In 2003, he edited the organizational report Human Rights & Human Security at Risk: The Consequences of Placing Immigration Enforcement and Services in the Department of Homeland Security.

Colin Rajah is Director for the International Migrant Rights and Global Justice Program at the National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights.  A political refugee from Malaysia, Colin is currently authoring a publication that analyzes the inter-connectedness of trade and migration policies across the globe through a community and human rights lens. Colin serves as a Steering Committee member for Migrant Rights International (MRI), an international network of migrant rights organizations.  He co-chaired the International Civil Society Planning Committee for the 2006 United Nations High Level Dialogue (UNHLD) on Migration and Development and co-chaired a similar parallel process for the 2007 Global Forum on Migration and Development (GFMD). He serves as a National Planning Committee member of the U.S. Social Forum (USSF), and is an Executive Committee member of the Grassroots Global Justice (GGJ) Alliance.

Catherine Tactaquin is Executive Director and a co-founder of the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights. Her commitment to immigrant rights was initially motivated by her own experience as the U.S.-born daughter of an immigrant farmworker from the Philippines. Before joining the National Network, she was involved for many years in grassroots organizing and advocacy in the Filipino community on issues of discrimination and foreign policy.  Catherine helped to found Migrant Rights International in 1994, and is a member of its Steering Committee.  She is presently a member of the board of Poverty, Race and Research Action Council in Washington, D.C., and the Advisory Board of the Alston-Bannerman Fellowship Program.  She is a former recipient of the Bannerman Fellowship, an award recognizing outstanding activists of color.

Diana Pei Wu started organizing in the late 1980s on environmental issues in her high school, and on human rights after the massacre in Tiananmen Square. She is the Program Director of Education & Capacity Building at the National Network for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and continues to be an Associate of the Movement Strategy Center. Diana also continues to support local organizations working at the intersection of justice, movement building, community organizing, and cultural activism, such as Chin Jurn Wor Ping and Estación Libre Oakland. Diana has a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley, plays capoeira with Capoeira Sangue Forte and dances with the Chinese drumming group Hei Gu.