Lindsay Gray is the CEO of VECINA, a nonprofit organization focused on mentoring pro bono attorneys representing asylum seekers subject to the Migrant Protection Protocol, otherwise known as MPP. VECINA has partnered with organizations along the southern border to try to increase representation numbers of asylum seekers. The organization provides training and mentoring for attorneys who do not have experience with immigration law but want to fight back against the terrible injustices perpetrated against asylum seekers. Lindsay is based in Austin, Texas and for the past six years has run a small immigration firm representing clients in a wide variety of immigration matters.
Prior to becoming an immigration lawyer, Lindsay was a public defender for the Colorado State Public Defender’s Office. There she represented hundreds of clients in many aspects of litigation, including bond hearings, motions, and over twenty jury trials. Outside of her law practice, Lindsay is an adjunct professor of law at Washington University in St. Louis, where she teaches Immigration Law in the online LLM/MLS program. Lindsay loves spending time outside with her husband, Steve, and her two daughters, Lilah (7) and Ellie (5).
Kate Lincoln-Goldfinch is the owner of Lincoln-Goldfinch Law, with offices in Austin and Waco. Her firm offers immigration representation in family-based, humanitarian immigration, and deportation defense matters. The mission of the firm is to bring peace to immigrant families.
Kate serves as the pro bono liaison for the Texas Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and serves as chair of the board of VECINA, an immigration mentoring nonprofit focused on increasing representation for asylum seekers. She regularly mentors attorneys in an effort to encourage immigration pro bono work, including hosting a monthly trip to immigration detention centers in Central Texas.
She has appeared on news outlets such as the BBC, MSNBC, the New York Times, and National Public Radio as an immigration expert. Her most important accomplishment of all is her family: her daughters Nora and Winslow, and her husband Josh.
