Alexandra Dufresne, J.D.

Alexandra Dufresne is a Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children. Before joining CT Voices, Alexandra served as the Dean of Morse College at Yale University, where she teaches immigration and refugee law and policy. From 2003-2005, she was the Catholic Legal Immigration Network detention attorney at Boston College Law School, where she supervised law students in the representation of low-income refugees and immigrants detained by the Department of Homeland Security. Alexandra has also worked as a litigation associate for several years at Latham & Watkins, LLP and Hale and Dorr, LLP and has volunteered at the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), and the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights. In 2001-2002, Alexandra clerked for the Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit.

Alexandra received a B.A. from Yale College in 1996 and a J.D. from the University of Chicago Law School in 1999. She has also studied at the Colegio de México in Mexico City. In 2005, she was named the Detention Attorney of the Year by the Political Asylum/Immigration Representation (PAIR) Project in Boston and won the Avi Soifer prize at Boston College Law School for clinical teaching by a non-faculty member. She lives in Hamden, Connecticut with her husband, son, and dog.

At CT Voices, Alexandra works on immigration, juvenile justice, foster care, and education issues.

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Publications

August 2008	[1] Missing Out: Suspending Students from Connecticut Schools
April 2008	[2] Excluding Children from School: The Unintended Costs of Suspension Policy
December 2007	[3] Fostering School Stability for Children in Connecticut's Care