Recognition of the NWIRP by the City of Seattle and King County came during an event at the Columbia Center on Oct. 13. It was presented to Executive Director Jorge L. Barón (right) and attorney Angélica Cházaro (left) by Seattle City Council President Richard Conlin.
The Northwest Immigrant Rights Project (NWIRP) received the 2009 Daniel Levy Award from the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. This national award came on the heels of a separate recognition of the NWIRP by the City of Seattle and King County for the organization’s work on behalf of immigrant survivors of domestic violence. The NWIRP just celebrated 25 years of service to the immigrant community in Washington state.
The NWIRP is the only organization providing comprehensive immigration legal services for low-income families in Washington state. Each year, the NWIRP serves thousands of low-income immigrants from more than 100 countries. ♦