Camille J. Mackler

Camille J. Mackler (@cmackler) is the Executive Director of Immigrant ARC, which she helped form and has led since February, 2017. Born out of the momentum of the legal response to the Travel Ban at JFK airport in January, 2017, Immigrant ARC is a legal service provider collaborative of over 80 organizational members who pool expertise and resources to protect immigrant New Yorkers and work to increase access to justice for all. Ms. Mackler is also currently a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Truman Center for National Policy, where she is working on researching and highlighting intersections between immigration policy, national security, and foreign relations.

Prior to transforming Immigrant ARC into an independent non-profit organization, Ms. Mackler was the Director of Immigration Legal Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition. In that role, she led advocacy campaigns to improve laws and policies for the benefit of immigrants across New York State. She is a graduate of New York Law School and Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.