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Elena Hodges

Elena Hodges

(she/her) is a co-director and immigration attorney at Pangea Legal Services, where she helps coordinate rapid response work and leads Pangeaโ€™s work at the intersection of immigrant justice and Palestinian liberation. Elena is committed to supporting immigrant, Palestinian, and Indigenous communities as they build local and transnational movements toward abolition. Before coming to Pangea, Elena clerked for a federal judge in Montana, interned with the Center for Constitutional Rights and the Indian Law Resource Center, and worked for community organizations in Lebanon and Brazil. Her writing has been published in the NYU Review of Law & Social Change, Just Security, Lawfare, and Next City.


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