Executive Director

Immigrant Legal Resource Center

San Francisco, CA

Eric is the ILRC’S Executive Director and has been with the ILRC since 1988. For six years while at the ILRC, Eric was a co-supervisor of Stanford Law School’s Immigration Law Clinic. Eric has extensive experience training attorneys and law students. In fact, he has been on the faculty of over 75 CLE trainings. Eric has co-authored several of the ILRC’s manuals and other publications, including Motions to Suppress, Naturalization and U.S Citizenship: The Essential Legal Guide, and How to Successfully Appeal Naturalization Denials. For nearly 20 years Eric has served as a liaison between community groups and the CIS (Citizenship and Immigration Services). He helped develop ILRC’s community model for effectively processing naturalization applications and works with community organizers and others on voter education and civic engagement campaigns.

• Eric Cohen at Immigrant Legal Resource Center

• New Americans Campaign’s Eric Cohen speaks at Bush Center

• Legal Aid Association of California on Eric Cohen

• A Different Side of the Immigration Debate

• Eric Cohen on C-SPAN

• FREE CITIZENSHIP LEGAL TRAINING FOR NON-PROFIT STAFF

• National Citizenship Collaboration IMMIGRANT LEGAL RESOURCE CENTER

• UC Davis School of Law Clinical Programs

• Ford Foundation Post-Graduate Fellowship in Public Interest Law

• A Simple Guide to U.S. Immigration and Citizenship By Luis Cortes

• In the News: Working to counteract N-400 application changes with action

• New York Immigration Coalition FREE NATURALIZATION AND CITIZENSHIP TRAINING

• Grupos Que Ayudan

• How Illegal Voting Can Affect One’s Naturalization Application 

• Carnegie Corporation of New York: The New Americans Campaign

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