Brittney Bringuez

Brittney Bringuez is a first-generation human rights advocate whose professional and academic work centers immigrants’ rights. Through an abolitionist and liberation-focused perspective, Brittney strives to work alongside immigrants/refugees in the dismantling of local and systemic disenfranchisement, oppression, and xenophobia. She manages one of NYC's migrant shelters through effective daily operations, management of staff, guest communication, vendor coordination, and general service delivery.

Brittney previously worked at Physicians for Human Rights supporting a network of over 2,200 clinicians who conduct pro bono forensic evaluations to thousands of asylum seekers yearly and conducted research on issues of immigration policy, detention, and family separation. She has also conducted her own research on the ways Asylum Officers perceive their life-and-death decision-making as governmental enforcers of the U.S. asylum system. Brittney holds a MA in Human Rights Studies from Columbia University and a BA in Educational Studies and Law, Justice, and Social Control from Chapman University.