Senior Staff
Ana Raquel Devereaux (she/her)
Senior Managing Attorney
Ana Raquel Devereaux has been an attorney with Michigan Immigrant Rights Center since December of 2014. She began her work with MIRC representing unaccompanied children seeking asylum, SIJS, and T- visas. Ana Raquel has also represented victims of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. Ana Raquel now supervises MIRC's unaccompanied children's team, which includes attorneys and non-attorneys accros MIRC's three offices representing children in federal foster care and released to sponsors. Ana Raquel is a fluent Spanish speaker and she attended Calvin College for her undergraduate degree in International Relations with a minor in Latin American Studies and received her J.D. from Wayne State University.
Anna Hill Galendez (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Anna joined the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center as a staff attorney in 2013 and currently serves on MIRC's farmworker and immigrant worker litigation team and advocacy team. She began her time at MIRC focused on impact litigation and policy advocacy for a broad range of immigrant rights issues, including federal litigation to ensure immigrant access to public benefits and programs. She has also representing clients in seeking U-visas, naturalization, asylum, and in removal proceedings after workplace raids. Anna graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and the University of California, Berkeley. She grew up in California where she worked at Head Start and for the USDA Agrability program, prior to law school. She is fluent in Spanish.
Christine Sauvé, LMSW-Macro (she/her)
Manager of Policy & Communication
Christine Sauvé, LMSW leads community engagement and communications strategies for the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, working to advance narrative and policy change in partnership with immigrant communities across Michigan. Christine regularly speaks to community groups, elected officials, and advocates about issues related to immigration, inclusion, and equity. She is a member of the Michigan Advocacy Program’s Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, and also serves as Co-Chair for the Detroit City Council’s Immigration Task Force. Previously Christine served as Director for the Welcoming Michigan project and contributed to several publications on the topic of social cohesion. In 2013 she was one of ten national leaders honored by The White House as a Champion of Change for her efforts to promote immigrant inclusion. Christine served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mauritania and Senegal, and is a member of the National Association of Social Workers. She is a graduate of the New Detroit Multicultural Leadership program, Detroit Equity Action Lab, Welcoming Communities Transatlantic Exchange, and Detroit Revitalization Fellows. Christine received her MSW and undergraduate degree from the University of Michigan. She is a strong advocate for social justice, loves birding and dark chocolate, and is happy to call Detroit home.
Elizabeth Santana (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Elizabeth is a Managing Attorney with MIRC's Unaccompanied Children's Team in Kalamazoo. In May of 2018, she graduated from Michigan State University College or Law, where she worked as a student attorney for various semesters working with Unaccompanied Children and representing clients in removal proceedings at Detroit Immigration Court. Elizabeth was previously an attorney with Farmworker Legal Services where she did civil employment litigation and immigration work. She also received her BA in Spanish and Criminal Justice from Western Michigan University in 2014. Elizabeth is fluent in Spanish.
Elly Jordan (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Elinor Jordan is a Supervising Attorney for Training and Impact, focusing on work with unaccompanied immigrant children. Immediately before joining MIRC, Elly helped found the Survivor Law Clinic at the Michigan Coalition to End Domestic and Sexual Violence, where she engaged in novel legal representation to enforce crime victim rights for survivors. Earlier in her legal career, Elly taught and litigated cases as a Supervising Attorney with Michigan State University’s Immigration Law Clinic. While a student at MSU Law, Elly was the editor-in-chief of the Michigan State Law Review. Upon graduation, she served as a clerk for the Honorable David W. McKeague of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit and later as an associate with the firm Warner Norcross & Judd. Before becoming a lawyer, Elly worked with a nonprofit human rights organization in El Salvador and Washington, DC.
Marie Celentino (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Marie Celentino specializes in representing immigrant survivors of intimate partner violence. Prior to joining MIRC, she was the senior attorney at Freedom House Detroit where she represented US asylum seekers. Marie also spent several years in private practice as an immigration lawyer with Antone, Casagrande & Adwers, P.C. Marie is a graduate of Harvard Law School and New York University. While in law school, she was a student attorney with the Harvard Immigration Project and the Predatory Lending Prevention Clinic, and a legal intern with the US Department of Justice's Civil Rights Division and the New York Attorney General's Consumer Fraud's Bureau.
Rebecca Olszewski (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Rebecca joined the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center as a Supervising Attorney in 2024. She has been working in non-profit immigration legal services since beginning with Farmworker Legal Services after law school. Working at Catholic Charities of Louisville, Catholic Charities of Southeast Michigan, and as a pro-bono attorney for MIRC’s VAWA program, Rebecca has a broad range of skills focused on legal service administration and direct representation for clients in the family-based and humanitarian immigration processes. As a Michigander, Rebecca graduated from the University of Michigan Law School and Western Michigan University. She is fluent in Spanish.
Ruby Robinson (he/him)
Senior Managing Attorney
Ruby is a managing attorney at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center. He focuses primarily on humanitarian relief for victims of domestic violence/crime, as well as naturalization matters. He is also very familiar with the immigration consequences for criminal behavior, specifically Michigan offenses. Ruby graduated from Wayne State University Law School and the University of Michigan. Before joining MIRC, he worked for Lakeshore Legal Aid. During law school, Ruby was a student attorney with the school's Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic. Prior to law school, Ruby served as an AmeriCorps*VISTA in Brooklyn, NY.
Sarah Schoettle (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Sarah is a managing attorney in the Grand Rapids office. Sarah received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2015. She previously worked as a staff attorney at MIRC and the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational, and as a lead attorney at the Immigrant Legal Center. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, gardening, and spending time with her family.
Susan E. Reed (she/her)
Director
Susan E. Reed co-founded MIRC at the Michigan Advocacy Program to expand access to immigration legal services and advance pro-immigrant policy in Michigan. Susan has led and partnered on advocacy and impact litigation that has: developed public funding for immigration legal services at the federal, state, county, and city level; preserved and expanded Medicaid access for approximately 85,000 noncitizens; recovered hundreds of thousands of dollars in lost and stolen wages for immigrant workers; advanced civil rights for detained immigrants and people of color targeted by immigration enforcement; and secured legal immigration status and citizenship for thousands of individual clients. Susan was appointed by the Michigan Supreme Court to the inaugural Foreign Language Board of Review following her successful advocacy for the court rule that created the board and expanded language access in Michigan's courts. She represents immigrant and immigrant rights interests as a long-time member of the Michigan State Planning Body for Legal Services and as part of several State Bar of Michigan initiatives. She is a proud member of the first class of the W.K. Kellogg Foundation Community Leadership Network. Susan is a graduate of Marquette University and the University of Minnesota Law School.
Tania Morris Díaz (she/her)
Managing Attorney
Tania is the Managing Attorney for the MIRC Wide Pro Bono Team. She has a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies with a concentration in Latin American studies from the University of South Alabama. She also pursued her Master's degree in Political and Social Sciences at the Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico (UNAM).
In 2017, she earned her J.D. from the University of Michigan Law School. As a student, she worked with the Human Trafficking Clinic, Unemployment Insurance Clinic and Community and Economic Development Clinic. She was a Geneva Extern Scholar at the International Services for Human Rights. Upon graduation she worked in the area of business immigration at ACA and later joined MIRC in 2018 as part of the Detroit Front Door Project focusing on removal defense and later the Immigration Court Helpdesk. She most recently worked at LGL focusing on family immigration and consular processing before returning to MIRC.
She grew up with a fascination for justice and the rule of law due to her father’s work as a social scientist. Her mother’s status as an immigrant motivated her to work in the field of immigration. She is bilingual and a dual citizen of Mexico and the U.S. She loves anime (Shingeki no Kyojin), video games (Borderlands), tacos (al pastor), and her dog (Marla).
