Valentina Gonzalez Blanco (she/her) is a lawyer from Universidad de Los Andes-Colombia, with experience in litigation, commercial and environmental law. She is currently pursuing a master’s degree with an emphasis on human rights at GULC. As part of her LL.M. program, she aims to develop her knowledge and expertise in human rights law, with a specific focus on women’s rights, refugees, and migration. She is interested in contributing to the social and economic inclusion of the immigrant population through the private sector.
Project: The situation of refugees and asylum seekers of diverse gender and intersex identities in the U.S. immigration process
The purpose of this research, done in collaboration with Marina Martes, is to develop a new resettlement process for gender-diverse refugees that avoids the security risks faced by this population in the present process of migration in the United States. The objective of the current study is to provide a comprehensive understanding of the violence and the social and legal barriers that refugees and asylum seekers of diverse gender identities have to face throughout the immigrant process in the U.S.