Morgan Weibel joined Tahirih in 2010. As Director of Client Advocacy, Legal Services, Morgan is responsible for the execution of Tahirih’s legal services nationwide and works collaboratively with other program directors to lead the organizational implementation of interdisciplinary representation teams, oversee legal services program standards, facilitate best practices and provide trauma informed supervision to the managing attorneys and litigation counsel.
Prior to joining Tahirih, Morgan served as Graduate Research Fellow at the Center for Gender and Refugee Studies where she drafted a protocol for the investigation of femicides and assisted Professor Karen Musalo in updating sections of her course book related to asylum based on membership in a particular social group. Morgan also worked for three years as a paralegal at a San Francisco-based firm focusing on asylum and deportation defense.
During law school, she interned in the Trial Chambers of the International Criminal Tribunal for Former Yugoslavia and the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Morgan also studied, literature, law and politics for one year at the University of Granada Spain.
“I am inspired by the strength and courage of the survivors that I have the privilege of working alongside at Tahirih. Their unwavering commitment to breaking century-old cycles of violence and the courage that it takes to stand up for themselves and ultimately all of us remarkable.”
Education: UC San Francisco, JD; UC Berkeley, BA
Languages: Spanish
Hometown: Fresno, California
Awards and Recognition
Morgan was named Leader of the Year by AILA’s DC Chapter Liaison Division in 2013, and in 2008, she won National Championship and First Place Speaker Awards at the UC Davis Asylum Law Moot Court Competition.
In the Media
- “Despite the #MeToo Movement, Roll-Backs in Protection Endanger Immigrant Women: It is Time for #ImmigrantWomentToo,” Morgan Weibel, Think Immigration, blog post, 27 March 2019.
- “Matter of A-B-: How the Attorney General Attempts to Subvert Asylum Law and Dismiss Domestic Violence as a Private Affair,” Morgan Weibel and Sayoni Maitra, PLI Current: The Journal of PLI Press, Vol. 2, No. 4, Autumn 2018.
- “Witnessing Cruelty at the Border,” Morgan Weibel, San Francisco Examiner, op-ed, 23 August 2018.
- “The Asylum Process Under Trump Has Become Arbitrary and Inhumane,” Morgan Weibel, Los Angeles Times, letter to the editor, 8 August 2018.
