Jonah Eaton specializes in refugee and asylum law and is the Nationalities Service Center’s Philadelphia Partnership for Resilience (PPR) staff attorney, providing pro bono legal representation for victims of torture. In addition to his PPR work, Mr. Eaton represents immigrants in a wide range of legal issues before USCIS, Immigration Court, and U.S. District Court and Court of Appeals. Mr. Eaton co-teaches the Refugee Law and Policy class at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prior to joining NSC, he was a Bates Fellow at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Bureau for Europe in Brussels, Belgium, where he worked on impact litigation before the European Court of Justice and litigation involving refugee rights in the European Union. In a prior life, Jonah was a boat builder and carpenter. Mr. Eaton is a graduate of Swarthmore College and the University of Michigan Law School.
Jonah will be discussing asylum and immigration policy at the US-Mexico border. Jonah and the Nationalities Service Center are wonderful partners of the PHRC so be sure to come learn more about this topic that is so central to the work we do.