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Expertise: LGBTQ issues, immigration law and policy
Sharita Gruberg is the senior director for the LGBTQ Research and Communications Project at American Progress. She comes to American Progress with extensive experience working in immigration advocacy, law, and policy, as well as experience providing direct service to immigration detainees, refugees, and asylum seekers.
Prior to joining American Progress, Sharita worked as a program specialist for the Women’s Refugee Commission. In that capacity she lobbied Congress and administrative agencies for increased protections for migrant populations, particularly women, families, and unaccompanied children. She has also worked as a law clerk for the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration, where she provided support to immigration detainees in removal proceedings, including LGBT asylum seekers, and filed complaints on detention conditions with the Department of Homeland Security. Most recently, she completed a fellowship with the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees, where she wrote and submitted refugee resettlement requests to safe third countries and liaised with congressional offices on refugee resettlement cases.
Sharita earned her J.D. from the Georgetown University Law Center, where she was a public interest law scholar and the writing program director for the Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law and Policy, and she also received the Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies Certificate from the Institute for the Study of International Migration. She holds a B.A. in political science and women’s studies from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
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Improving the Lives and Rights of LGBTQ People in America | Center for American Progress | January 12, 2021 |
Transforming U.S. Foreign Policy To Ensure Dignity and Rights for LGBTI People | Center for American Progress | November 16, 2020 |
The State of the LGBTQ Community in 2020 | Center for American Progress | October 6, 2020 |
The Trump Administration’s Latest Attack on Transgender People Facing Homelessness | Center for American Progress | September 3, 2020 |
Beyond Bostock: The Future of LGBTQ Civil Rights | Center for American Progress | August 26, 2020 |
Connecting the Dots: How the Trump Administration Misuses Religious Freedom To Create a License To Discriminate | Center for American Progress | May 19, 2020 |
Same-Sex Couples Experience Higher Unemployment Rates Throughout an Economic Recovery | Center for American Progress | May 5, 2020 |
An Effective Response to the Coronavirus Requires Targeted Assistance for LGBTQ People | Center for American Progress | April 9, 2020 |
HHS Proposal Puts Millions of Americans at Risk of Discrimination When Accessing Federally Funded Services | Center for American Progress | November 5, 2019 |
LGBTQ Dreamers Fear Detention and Deportation and Need DACA’s Protections | Center for American Progress | October 17, 2019 |
The Dire Consequences of the Trump Administration’s Attack on Transgender People’s Access to Shelters | Center for American Progress | July 31, 2019 |
Attack on the ACA | Center for American Progress | July 19, 2019 |
HHS Budget Would Fund Discrimination at Expense of Civil Rights Enforcement | Center for American Progress | April 25, 2019 |
Trump’s Executive Order Rewards Private Prison Campaign Donors | Center for American Progress | June 28, 2018 |
ICE’s Rejection of Its Own Rules Is Placing LGBT Immigrants at Severe Risk of Sexual Abuse | Center for American Progress | May 30, 2018 |
Religious Liberty for a Select Few | Center for American Progress | April 3, 2018 |
The ACA’s LGBTQ Nondiscrimination Regulations Prove Crucial | Center for American Progress | March 7, 2018 |
Serving LGBTQ Immigrants and Building Welcoming Communities | Center for American Progress | January 24, 2018 |
What Ending DACA Means for LGBTQ Dreamers | Center for American Progress | October 11, 2017 |
Advancing LGBTQ Equality Through Local Executive Action | Center for American Progress | August 25, 2017 |
Who Seeks Religious Accommodations to Providing Contraceptive Coverage? | Center for American Progress | August 11, 2017 |
How the Religious Liberty Executive Order Licenses Discrimination | Center for American Progress | July 31, 2017 |
The Trump Budget Neglects Basic Protections and Funds a Deportation Force Instead | Center for American Progress | May 23, 2017 |
How Police Entanglement with Immigration Enforcement Puts LGBTQ Lives at Risk | Center for American Progress | April 12, 2017 |
Gorsuch Signals an Extreme Threat to LGBT Rights | Center for American Progress | March 24, 2017 |
Separating Mothers from their Children at the Border Is Wrong and Costly | Center for American Progress | March 13, 2017 |
LGBT Refugees’ Lives Depend on the U.S. Resettlement Program | Center for American Progress | January 30, 2017 |
Nondiscrimination Protections for LGBTQ Communities | Center for American Progress | December 8, 2016 |
Making Paid Leave Work for Every Family | Center for American Progress | December 1, 2016 |
ICE Officers Overwhelmingly Use Their Discretion to Detain LGBT Immigrants | Center for American Progress | October 26, 2016 |
How the U.S. Department of Homeland Security Can End Its Reliance on Private Prisons | Center for American Progress | September 14, 2016 |
The Medicaid Program and LGBT Communities: Overview and Policy Recommendations | Center for American Progress | August 9, 2016 |
How Overly Broad Religious Exemptions Are Putting Children at Risk of Sexual Abuse | Center for American Progress | May 12, 2016 |
Clear Guidance on Humanitarian Parole Is Needed to Reunite Same-Sex Partners Who Are Unable to Legally Marry | Center for American Progress | February 11, 2016 |
Discrimination Against Transgender Women Seeking Access to Homeless Shelters | Center for American Progress | January 7, 2016 |
How For-Profit Companies Are Driving Immigration Detention Policies | Center for American Progress | December 18, 2015 |
Obama Administration Makes Refugee Program More LGBT-Inclusive | Center for American Progress | October 30, 2015 |
Why LGBT People Can Still Face Discrimination in Housing | Center for American Progress | October 22, 2015 |
Humanitarian Diplomacy | Center for American Progress | June 18, 2015 |
The Countries From Which LGBT People Are Seeking Asylum | Center for American Progress | June 18, 2015 |
No Way Out: Congress’ Bed Quota Traps LGBT Immigrants in Detention | Center for American Progress | May 14, 2015 |
On the 50th Anniversary of the Immigration and Nationality Act, Changes Are Needed to Protect LGBT Immigrants | Center for American Progress | March 23, 2015 |
Fact Sheets: Comprehensive Nondiscrimination Protections | Center for American Progress | March 10, 2015 |
We the People | Center for American Progress | December 10, 2014 |
Fostering Safety | Center for American Progress | September 30, 2014 |
LGBT Undocumented Immigrants Face an Increased Risk of Hate Violence | Center for American Progress | June 10, 2014 |
A Little-Known Congressional Quota is Placing LGBT Immigrants in Grave Danger | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
Infographic: Detention Means Big Money for For-Profit Prisons | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
Infographic: What Could $600 Million Buy? | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
Infographic: How Long Are People in Detention? | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
Infographic: Do We Need to Detain 34,000 Immigrants Every Day? | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
Infographic: Congress’ Immigrant Bed Quota | Center for American Progress | May 9, 2014 |
How the Prison Rape Elimination Act Helps LGBT Immigrants in Detention | Center for American Progress | April 2, 2014 |
Building a More Perfect Union | Center for American Progress | February 6, 2014 |
Dignity Denied: LGBT Immigrants in U.S. Immigration Detention | Center for American Progress | November 25, 2013 |
Immigration Reform and the LGBT Community | Center for American Progress | November 12, 2013 |
LGBT Advocates Move Immigration Reform Forward During August Recess | Center for American Progress | August 28, 2013 |
Additional Immigration Benefits Are Available for Same-Sex Couples After DOMA Repeal | Center for American Progress | July 17, 2013 |
What the DOMA Decision Means for LGBT Binational Couples | Center for American Progress | June 26, 2013 |
What Immigration Reform Means for the LGBT Community | Center for American Progress | June 11, 2013 |