Bree Burnwanger is an immigration attorney and human rights defender. She is the past managing attorney of the Dilley Pro-Bono Project and is an adjunct law professor at Fordham Law School where she leads teams of student volunteers to Dilley, Texas, to advocate for incarcerated women and children seeking asylum in the United States.

This experience shows you the best and worst of humanity.

Re-telling it is re-living it, please stop making me tell it.

Bree works for the Lawyer’s Committee for Civil Rights of the San Francisco Bay Area.

Audio & Photography: Paul Bieber