He is also the Executive Director of the North Carolina Immigrant Rights Project. He is a nationally recognized expert on Secure Communities and 287(g) and has attended meetings at the White House and ICE headquarters to discuss these programs. Prior to attending law school, he was as a human rights researcher for Al-Haq, the West Bank affiliate of the International Commission of Jurists, and was Amnesty International's Country Specialist for Israel and the Occupied Territories for over twelve years. He is a graduate of the UNC School of Law.