In celebration of Pride Month, please join CAMBA on Wednesday, June 8th for a conversation with the LGBT Asylum Project's Co-Founder and Executive Director Okan Sengun.  Mr. Sengun's work focuses primarily on LGBT asylum-seekers from Muslim-majority countries.  Come learn about the LGBT Asylum Project's work in providing legal services to LGBTQ+ immigrants seeking protection in the United States.

Mr. Sengun is also the founding attorney of Okan Immigration Law Group, a private law group that handles marriage-based green card and naturalization applications as well as asylum cases based on political opinion, race, nationality, and religion.  He has served as the San Francisco Asylum Office Liaison, the LGBT Coordinator, and on the Advisory Council of American Immigration Lawyers Association, Northern California Chapter between 2012 and 2018.  He also serves as a panel attorney at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel (ALRP) and was awarded “Attorney of the Year” in 2016 by the AIDS Legal Referral Panel.  He is also a mentor immigration attorney at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area and a member of Bay Area Lawyers for Individual Freedom (BALIF).  Mr. Sengun worked at several non-profit organizations and law firms in California and Turkey prior to starting Okan Immigration Law Group and the LGBT Asylum Project. He is admitted to the New York Bar and the U.S. Court of Appeals Ninth Circuit. 

We look forward to seeing you on June 8, 2022! Be sure to register for the free event today!