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Panelists

Javier Morillo - President of SEIU Local 26, which unites over 5,100 janitors, security guards, and window cleaners. Morillo is an appointee of Mayor Chris Coleman to the St. Paul Human Rights Commission. and of Mayor R.T. Rybak to the Minneapolis Private Industry Workforce Council. He taught anthropology and history at Carleton College and at Macalester College.

Mohamed Jibrill - Director, Hennepin County Office of Cultural Diversity. 

Hussein Samatar - Founder, African Development Center of Minnesota (ADC), a Minneapolis-based not for profit enterprise that supports the state’s African immigrants with business development, financial literacy, homeowner’s assistance and lending.

Alberto Monseurrate - CEO and President of Latino Communications Network
Alberto Monserrate currently serves as a board member and was former Chair of the Hiawatha Leadership Academy, a south Minneapolis elementary public school that serves kids that are 60% Hispanic, 35% African American, and 98% free and reduced lunch.

Arizona’s law pushed the immigration debate to center stage, and it will be a hot topic during this election.