Elica is the Program Director for Immigrant Rights at the Haas, Jr. Fund. She joined with extensive experience building and managing programs focused on advancing justice, equality, and opportunity for immigrants. Most recently, she served as interim executive director with the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights, San Francisco Bay Area, helping lead the organization’s movement lawyering focused on the intersection of immigrant, racial, and economic justice alongside a network of 1,000+ pro bono volunteers. Elica also served as a Staff Attorney and Program Manager of the National Security & Civil Rights Program at the Asian Law Caucus (ALC). During her tenure at ALC, she led rapid response efforts focused on civil rights, immigrant rights, and racial justice with a particular emphasis on the Muslim Ban. Earlier, Elica worked as the supervising attorney to establish the University of California Immigrant Legal Services Center serving the legal needs of undocumented UC students and their family members. She has experience in philanthropy as well, having served as the Project Director of the One Nation Initiative at the California Community Foundation in Los Angeles where she managed the first philanthropic program in Southern California for Arab, Middle Eastern, Muslim, and South Asian nonprofit organizations. Elica grew up in the Bay Area and is the proud daughter of immigrants from Iran.