Susan E. Reed
Michigan Poverty Law Program/Michigan Immigrant Rights Center
Kalamazoo,
Michigan
Susan E. Reed is managing attorney with the center. She has practiced immigration and immigrant rights law since 2003. Ms. Reed has also served as a staff attorney at Farmworker Legal Services of Michigan and as a regional attorney for Justice for Our Neighbors, the immigration legal services program of the United Methodist Committee on Relief. Her particular interests include the intersection of family and immigration law, the rights of unaccompanied immigrant children, immigrant eligibility for public benefits and programs, and civil rights matters. Ms. Reed is secretary of the Steering Committee for the Michigan Coalition for Immigrant and Refugee Rights and cochairs the Advocacy Committee of the Michigan Chapter of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She has served as an advisor to several State Bar of Michigan committees and initiatives. Her research and commentary has been published in Clearinghouse Review among other publications. In 2013, Ms. Reed was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to the Foreign Language Board of Review and serves as a committee member of the Court's Limited English Proficiency Implementation Advisory Committee. She is also a member of the Detroit City Council Immigration Task Force. Ms. Reed is available to handle or cocounsel impact cases referred by attorneys and advocates. She is a proud member of the first class of W. K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network Fellows. Ms. Reed is fluent in Spanish.
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