Carmen Maria Rey

Carmen Maria Rey is an attorney with over 15 years of experience in humanitarian immigration. An immigrant herself, she currently serves as U.S.Legal Director at the International Refugee Assistance Project, a nonprofit organization that provides legal advocacy for refugees and displaced people around the world in need of a safe place to call home. 

A graduate of New York University and Brooklyn Law School, Carmen has previously served as Legal Director of Sanctuary for Families’ immigration unit. At Sanctuary, a gender-rights organization, Carmen led efforts to defend immigrant survivors of gender-based violence before federal immigration agencies and federal courts. Carmen is a former Assistant Professor of Clinical Law and Co-Director of the Safe Harbor immigration clinic at Brooklyn Law School and has authored several articles and reports on humanitarian immigration. In 2019, she was appointed Deputy Board Chair of Artolution, an international non-profit that facilitates collaborative art-making programs with marginalized communities. Carmen likes to spend her free time volunteering to help immigrants apply to obtain U.S. citizenship, running and hiking (at an ever-slower pace), and spending quality time with her dog, Lola (a potcake from The Bahamas).