Erin McKee | Immigrant Rights Project | Co-Director and Attorney
Erin McKee is a co-founder of the Oregon Justice Resource Center and an immigration attorney who believes we’re all in this together. She began her public interest law career assisting refugees and low-income immigrants to obtain family-based and humanitarian immigration benefits. In private practice, she represented individuals fleeing persecution, families seeking to reunite, and immigrants accused of crimes, among others. She has represented clients in criminal proceedings before state courts as well as before immigration courts, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, and the U.S. Department of State.
As a young intern at a feminist human rights NGO in India, she asked her mentor if she could stay and continue the work. She was politely told to go home and fix her own country. In furtherance of that mission, she eventually went to law school. Erin is driven by the belief that the justice system should be accountable to all of us, and that we should be accountable to each other, regardless of borders.
JD, Lewis and Clark Law School
MS Conflict Resolution, Portland State University
BA, summa cum laude, University of Iowa