steve choi is the executive director of immigration coalition, an umbrella advocacy coalition nearly 200 member groups representing new york immigrant communities. from 2092 by 2013 is executive director of the main quad center for action which organizes advocates for and educates korean and asian american community members in new york. prior to that he was staff attorney and founding director of the korean workers project. at the asian american legal defense and education fund the only project on the east coast focused on providing medical services to low-wage korean immigrants. janet perez is a college student and undocumented activists in the immigrant community. she was born in pablo, mexico but raised in the bronx, the bronx new york. jannette is currently attending college for city university in pursuing a double major in political science. she's a core member of the new york state leadership council from a youth leadership council and undocumented youth led organization for the other great community and also coordinator of the mentoring program. hero worship how a one of the c

i am simply steve choi come executive director of the new york immigration coalition. we have 165 agencies across the state that have a stake on immigration in the league strongly and a lot of benefits immigrants burning. the discussion today is very poignant for me because we are coming off the heels of an effort, a campaign over the past couple weeks to get the new york frame act in the budget and i went down to a crushing failure by not getting the budget. the game is not yet done. there's still several that i will talk a little bit about the effort to get the new york state dream act passed in just a little bit. it's also thought-provoking not only from our position as an advocacy group fighting for the dream act but also as the coordinator of the major $18 million city council initiatives over the past couple years working with the city council. that's been an effort to find the hardest to reach daca recipients. not the cap income folks who know how to get to college and know what their rights are, but the folks who are not necessarily you think of. they are also

now it is a special welcome to steve troy -- steve choi, who is bringing the voices of network community organizations focused on immigration in new york city. he is the executive director of the new york education coalition , a coalition of nearly 200 members representing new york's immigrant communities. from 2009 two 2013, he was executive director of the min kwon section for community action, which educates korean and asian-american community members in new york. prior to that, he was a staff attorney and founding director of the korean workman's project. at the asian american legal defense and education fund, the only project on the east coast committed to providing legal services to low-wage korean immigrants. janet perez is a college student and undocumented activist in the immigrant community. she was born in play low mexico but raised in the bronx. the bronx, new york. janet is currently attending lehman college at the city university and pursuing a double major in political silence -- science and computer imaging. she is the leader of an undocumented youth organization fighting