Lehigh Immigration Coalition aims to make campus more supportive toward immigration

Fairly new to campus, the Lehigh Immigration Coalition has ambitious plans to make Lehigh a supportive campus for immigrant students, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrival recipients and undocumented students.

The six students who initiated the Coalition, Vicki Jagdeo, ’21, Vanessa Singh, ’22, Adriana Perez-Flores, ’22, Daniel Prongay, ’22, Yamelin Jaquez, ’22, and Julio Martinez-Cuin, ’22, worked hard to make the Coalition an official organization this fall.

The Coalition’s adviser, Germán Cadenas, an assistant professor of the counseling psychology program in the College of Education, is an immigrant from Venezuela.

“It’s important for Lehigh students to have a healthy dialogue about immigration, not just immigrant students, but for all students to talk about immigration and find ways to garner support,” Cadenas said.

This fall, the Coalition hopes to kick-off with a 5×10 program for students to learn what its club has to offer.