Refugee Support Activities at the North Chapel

As part of the 10:00 am Service at the North Chapel on Sunday, February 7th, Sheldon Novick and Kate Barta will provide a reflection entitled "How We Help Refugees and Other Immigrants, How They Help Us."  After the service they will meet with the Refugee Support Group, 11:30-Noon in the Social Hall. 

Sheldon Novick is a retired attorney and teacher of legal history, and the author of several books, including the prize-winning biography Honorable Justice: The Life of Oliver Wendell Holmes. He has taught and written about the history of immigration and citizenship in the U.S., and is at work on a new book on that subject. 

Kate Semple Barta founded the Welcoming All Nationalities Network of the Upper Valley in 2011 with fiscal sponsorship from WISE, Inc.  In 2013, WANN began providing immigration legal services to low income and indigent immigrants in the Upper Valley, and beyond in NH and VT.  Kate is the Director and Attorney for WANN.  Before moving to the Upper Valley in 2006, she worked as an Asylum Attorney for the International Institute of Boston.  Prior to that she was a staff attorney for the Midwest Immigrants' Human Rights Center in Chicago.