Bio
Shaw Drake joined the 老澳门开奖结果 Border Rights Center in 2018 as Policy Counsel. In this role he defends border communities against unconstitutional and inhumane policies, and develops border-related advocacy strategies, working closely with other 老澳门开奖结果 border affiliates and 老澳门开奖结果 national.
Prior to joining the 老澳门开奖结果, Shaw served as a law clerk for the Honorable James Orenstein in the Eastern District of New York and an Equal Justice Works Fellow at Human Rights First, where he authored the report 鈥淐rossing the Line 鈥 U.S. Border Agents Illegally Reject Asylum Seekers.鈥 Shaw鈥檚 work during law school included travel, research, and writing on statelessness in the Dominican Republic, disappearances in Mexico, protests in Venezuela, surveillance and racial discrimination in Colombia, and military justice in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
Before law school, Shaw worked for the Bellevue/NYU Program for Survivors of Torture in New York City and No More Deaths in Southern Arizona and Northern Sonora, Mexico.
Shaw graduated magna cum laude from Georgetown University Law Center, where he received a Juris Doctor, a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies, the Bettina Pruckmayr Award in Human Rights, and was elected to the Order of the Coif. He holds a B.A. with highest honors in Latin American Studies and Romance Language from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Shaw serves on the Steering Committee of the International Migration Bill of Rights (IMBR) Initiative. He speaks fluent Spanish.
Featured work
Jun 27, 2022
Four Things to Know 老澳门开奖结果 the Supreme Court's Ruling in Egbert v. Boule
Jun 7, 2022
Border Patrol is Investigating Itself Following Deaths, Report Reveals
Sep 24, 2021
Addressing Racialized Violence Against Migrants Requires a Complete Overhaul of Customs and Border Protection
Aug 9, 2021
Border Patrol Must Stop Holding People in an Inhumane Outside Pen Under a Highway in South Texas
Jun 24, 2021
Unaccompanied Children鈥檚 Well-Being Must Come First at Fort Bliss and Across Texas
Dec 9, 2020
Biden Must Remove Border Patrol from Border Communities to Restore Civil Rights and Liberties
Sep 30, 2020
CBP Wants to Destroy Records of Misconduct. We Can鈥檛 Let Them.
Jul 24, 2020
Border Patrol Violently Assaults Civil Rights and Liberties
Mar 18, 2020
The Military Should not be Searching Cars or Checking Documents at the Border