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Meet Margaret Huang, the Southern Poverty Law Center’s new president and CEO.
She has fought for human and civil rights throughout her 25-year career, working to protect the rights of migrants and refugees, torture survivors, gun violence victims, and activists and protestors globally.
She has worked with members of Congress on critical pieces of legislation; led several human rights missions to the U.S.-MĂ©xico border to hear from asylum-seekers and document abuses; accompa...nied three transgender youth across the border to seek asylum; and sent and led human rights observer delegations to Ferguson, MO, Baltimore, MD, and Standing Rock, ND, to monitor and document police responses to protestors.
Members of Congress have called upon her for her expertise, inviting her to testify and speak on human rights issues, including human rights abuses in the temporary emergency shelter for unaccompanied children in Homestead, FL; the draconian U.S. border policies and treatment of asylum seekers; and growing oppression of human rights defenders around the globe. She has also advocated before the United Nations human rights mechanisms and the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights.
Hear her vision for SPLC and the work ahead.
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