Elora Mukherjee

Elora Mukherjee is the director of the Immigrants’ Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School and a globally recognized advocate, practitioner, and voice for immigrants, asylum seekers, and unaccompanied migrant children. For more than a decade, Mukherjee has worked on issues related to enforcing the Flores Settlement Agreement, which sets a limit on the length of time children can be detained in federal immigration custody. Mukherjee began her career as a clerk for the Hon. Judge Jan E. DuBois of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and then won a fellowship with the ACLU Racial Justice Program. From 2007 to 2010, she worked at a law firm, specializing in police misconduct, prisoners’ rights, housing, and employment discrimination, and then rejoined the ACLU as a staff attorney until 2013.