Location: Painted Bride

Time: 8:30-10:30PM

Cost: $15

In the overheated debate about immigration, voices of the immigrants themselves are seldom heard. Underground America changes that with a dramatic reading of oral histories by undocumented immigrants that reveals the harrowing ordeals and heart-rending choices they must make every day.

A discussion follows with a panel of experts who will address the legal, economic and humanitarian issues surrounding the immigration debate.

Director: Jenny Jacobs
Production Assistant: D'Andrea Durham

Panelists:

Pete Orner is editor of the book Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives. As a fiction writer, he has been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, winner of the Bard Fiction Prize and the Rome Prize and a Guggenheim Fellow. He is an associate professor at San Francisco State University.

Sarah Paoletti heads up UPenn Law’s Transnational Clinic.

Jaykumar Menon is a human rights lawyer and writer and a fellow at the Center for International Sustainable Development Law at McGill University.

Moderator:

Judith A. Bernstein-Baker is the executive director of HIAS and Council Migration Service of Philadelphia.