Presenters
Eric Cohen has been with the ILRC since 1988, and has been its Executive Director since 2007. He has extensive experience training attorneys, paralegals, community advocates, and organizers on a variety of immigration law, immigrants’ rights, and leadership development topics. Eric is a national expert on naturalization and citizenship law and is the primary author of the ILRC’s manual entitled, Naturalization and U.S. Citizenship: The Essential Legal Guide. Eric helped develop ILRC's community model for naturalization workshops. Additionally, Eric has worked on voter outreach and education programs for naturalized citizens.
Prior to working at the ILRC, Eric worked with the Los Angeles County Federation of Labor, Labor Immigrant Assistance Project where he worked on legalization and union organizing campaigns.
Eric obtained a B.A. degree in History from Colorado College and a J.D. degree from Stanford Law School. He is conversant in Spanish and is a member of the State Bar of California.
Cori Hash - Senior Staff Attorney, Immigrant Legal Resource Center
Cori Hash joined the ILRC as a Senior Staff Attorney in 2024 and is based in Austin, Texas. She came to the ILRC after nearly two decades working in the field of immigrant rights and immigration law.
Cori was most recently in private practice at Lincoln-Goldfinch Law firm, a boutique law firm in Austin, TX specializing in immigration law. Prior to Lincoln-Goldfinch Law, Cori was the Managing Attorney of the Washington, D.C. office of Human Rights First where she oversaw the pro bono legal representation of indigent asylum seekers by staff and volunteer lawyers in the Washington, D.C. metro area.
Cori began her legal career as an Equal Justice Works Fellow at the Kentucky Equal Justice Center, creating a project to address the unmet legal needs of the growing immigrant and refugee communities in Central and Eastern Kentucky. She also taught immigration law courses at the University of Kentucky College of Law. Prior to law school, Cori served as a volunteer in the United States Peace Corps in Zimbabwe.
Cori has a bachelor's degree in Latin American Studies and Plan II Honors from the University of Texas and a law degree from the University of Texas School of Law. She is a member of the bars in Texas, Kentucky and Virginia, and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Kentucky, and the United States Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. She is fluent in Spanish.