Alexandra Dufresne

Alexandra Dufresne is a Senior Policy Fellow at Connecticut Voices for Children, where she works on a wide range of children's rights issues. From 2005-2007, Alexandra served as the Dean of Morse College at Yale. She has taught seminars on immigration and refugee law and policy in the political science department since 2006. From 2003-2005, she was the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Detention Attorney at Boston College Law School, where she counseled and represented low-income refugees and immigrants detained by the Department of Homeland Security and supervised law students in the immigration law clinic. Alexandra has also worked as a litigation associate for several years at Latham & Watkins and Hale and Dorr, LLP. In 2001-2002, Alexandra clerked for the Hon. Martha Craig Daughtrey of the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. Early in her career, she interned with the Midwest Immigrant and Human Rights Center, the Lawyers' Committee for Human Rights (now Human Rights First), the Chicago Lawyers' Committee for Civil Rights, and the Immigration Court in Chicago.

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 was awarded the Avi Soifer prize at Boston College Law School for clinical teaching by a non-faculty member.

Campus address: 115 Prospect St., Rosenkranz Hall
Phone: TBA
Email: adufresne@ctkidslink.org