Jennifer Nagda

Jennifer Nagda is the Associate Director of the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights at the University of Chicago.  The Young Center promotes the best interests—the safety and well-being—of unaccompanied and separated immigrant, migrant and refugee children in the United States.  Before joining the Young Center, Ms. Nagda was an attorney at Midwest Regional Office of MALDEF, litigating immigration, education and employment discrimination cases.  Ms. Nagda also clerked for the Hon. James B. Zagel of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Illinois.  Prior to law school, Ms. Nagda was the Associate Director of what is now the CityBridge Foundation in Washington, DC, a non-traditional foundation supporting innovative programs in the District of Columbia and internationally.  Ms. Nagda is an honors graduate of the University of Chicago Law School and graduated magna cum laude from Duke University.