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CAUTION!
This
site is no longer actively maintained.
It remains on-line as a historical exhibit about immigration, and as
a record of creative research and service by University of Tennessee law students. The issues dealt with here
are still fascinating and timely, but viewers should use caution. Any
specific legal information contained on this site should not be relied
upon, because it may have changed in the intervening years. For additional information about
this site and the decision to leave it on the web, visit the home page:
http://web.utk.edu/~tnlatina
~Resource Contacts~
Actualidad Hispana
3030 Nolensville Road
Nashville, TN 37211
Spanish language publication in Nashville
(biweekly)
Luis Alva, Director
(615) 331-1990
Alianza Latina
P.O. Box 400039
3718 Nolensville Road
Nashville, TN 37204
Contact: Malena Perdomo
(615) 340-2770
Small group of women interested in serving and reaching out to the
immigrant community in Nashville.
They held a series of town meetings with Hispanic community to listen to
people’s concerns. Sponsor radio chat show "El café de la
siete" every other Tuesday night.
Rev. Alexis Andino
Member of AHHA
Morristown, TN
Honduran-born associate pastor of Montvue Baptist
Church in Morristown.
Helps to record the Spanish-language "Info Connect" lines
initiated in spring 1999 by the Morristown Citizen-Tribune.
Professor Fran Ansley
University of Tennessee College
of Law
1505 W. Cumberland Avenue
Knoxville, TN 37996
(423) 974-6814
Taught the class that created this web page. Is doing research on the
global economy and looking for opportunities for law students to work with
immigrants and immigrant advocacy groups.
John Bell, Esq.
(See Knoxville Legal Aid
Society)
Bravo Tennessee
P.O. Box 23068
Nashville, TN 37202
(615) 383-2121
(615) 429-6839
(615) 383-2196 (fax)
BravoTenn@aol.com
Fred Ramos, publisher.
Bi-weekly bi-lingual newspaper.
Bridge
Knoxville, TN
(423) 540-1311
Contact: Jennifer Searle
Ecumenical group funded to work with non-Latino refugees and asylum
seekers.
Buenos Dias – Tennessee
Bilingual
(615) 264-0950
Contact: Paul Van Cotthem
Rev. William Burton
Morristown, TN
(See also Montvue
Baptist Church)
Missionary in Venezuela
for two years. Helps to record Spanish Info Connect lines. (See Info
Connect)
Catholic Charities of Memphis
(901) 722-4775
CEASE, Inc.
P.O. Box 3359
Morristown, TN 37815
(800) 303-2220
(423) 581-2220
Contact: Teresa Acevedo. Domestic violence group working to reach Latinas.
Serves Hamblen, Hawkins, Grainger, Claiborne, Hancock and Union
Counties.
Churches and religious bodies with special out-reach programs (very
incomplete list!):
Asbury United
Methodist Church,
Greeneville
Hispanic Advisory Council of Diocese of Memphis
Hispanic Ministry of Catholic Diocese of Knoxville
Holy Ghost Catholic Church , Knoxville
Montvue Baptist
Church, Morristown
Sacred Heart Cathedral (bi-lingual mass every other Sunday)
St. Edward Catholic Church, Nashville
St. Mary’s Catholic Church, Johnson City
Comunidad Hispana
Nashville, TN
(615) 831-
Translation service.
Marta Salazar, founder and director.
Tim Coode, Esq.
Knoxville, TN
Assists with immigration issues.
Dar a la Luz Clinic
(615) 862-4107
Contact: Ellen Tighe
Robert Devine, Esq.
Chattanooga, TN
(but weekly travels to Knoxville)
(423) 209-4134
Member of American Immigration Lawyers Association
English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL)
Many programs are now being offered in Tennessee.
The following institutions, groups and programs can provide information on
specific classes:
Hispanic Ministry of Catholic Diocese of Knoxville
Asbury United Methodist Church, Greeneville
Montvue Baptist
Church, Morristown
Reverend Mike Feely
Asbury United Methodist Church
201 South Main Street
Greeneville, TN 37743
(423) 798-1050, extension 23
(423) 636-0937
Member of Hispanic Ministry Committee of Holston
Conference of United Methodist Church.
Asbury UMC has strong outreach program to Hispanic community.
Rosie Freeman
(See also Reachout and Migrant GED)
Bi-lingual Puerto-Rico-born health educator and long-time Tennessee
resident. Founder and director of Reachout, Inc.,
a health promotion organization with offices in Morristown.
Ms. Freeman also works half time with the Migrant GED program in Morristown.
Irma Gonzales Freestate, Esq.
P.O. Box 1129
Alcoa, TN 37701
(423) 681-4266
Bi-lingual, second-generation Mexican-American attorney who mainly
represents juveniles.
Takes some judicially-appointed cases of Spanish-speaking persons
accused of crime. Chair of the Hispanic Ministry Committee of the Holston Conference of the United Methodist
Church.
Mary Griffin, Esq.
(See also Office of the Public Defender)
Helped to found Alianza Latina in Nashville.
Co-presents a bi-weekly radio talk show in Spanish, "El café de
la siete.," on 1300 am. every
other Tuesday evening.
Eloy Guerra
Honorary Mexican Consul
Nashville, TN
(See also SOS Ayuda Internacional)
Amy Harwell
(615) 862-7292
(See Office of the Public Defender)
Health Care Providers (listed alphabetically)
For a discription
of services provided to hispanic and low income
individuals, see our HEALTH
CARE page.
CALL FOR HEALTH
National Center for Farmworker Health
America's Voice
for Farmworkers, a Free Phone Call Away
Una Voz Para la Salud Con Solo Llamar... y es Gratis
1-800-377-9968
GOOD SAMARITAN CLINIC
811 E. Lamar Alexander Parkway
Maryville, TN 37804
423-983-9802
INTERFAITH HEALTH CLINIC
315 Gill Avenue
Knoxville, Tennessee 37917
Telephone: (423) 546-7330
FAX: (423) 546-6643
KNOX COUNTY HEALTH DEPARTMENT
140 Dameron Avenue
Knoxville, Tennessee
423-544-4101
REACHOUT
400 W Main Street Suite 312
PO Box 731
Morristown, TN 37815-0731
Phone: (423) 587-7307
Fax: (423) 587-7307
Rosie M. Freeman (Director)
RURAL MEDICAL SERVICES
PO Box 99
Parrottsville, TN
37843
Phone (423) 625-1170
Fax (423) 625-3618
After Hours (423) 625-0766
Kelly N. Melear (Migrant Program Coordinator)
email: kmelear@planetc.com
UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE
MEDICAL CENTER
1924 Alcoa Highway
Knoxville, TN 37920
423-544-9000
Emergency Room: 423-544-9401
Highlander Research
& Education Center
1959 Highlander Way
New Market, TN 37820
(423) 933-3443
Contact: Rosa Saavedra
Long-time center for adult education and social change. Looking for ways
to support self-organization among members of Tennessee’s
new Latino community.
Hispanic Family
Resource Center
(615) 837-9988
Contact: Maggie Sapien
Hola! (HO’ra
LA’tina, Revista
de Habla Hispana)
P.O. Box 32192
Knoxville, TN 37930-2192
Occasional Spanish-language newsletter. Ana Piazzetta,
Coral Getino, Elsa Wood, and Persides
Herrera, editors.
Kelly Malear Hough
Parratsville, TN
(See also ____________)
Info Connect Spanish Lines
Morristown Citizen Tribune
Morristown, TN
(423) 581-1233
Manager, Ron Toby
In March 1999, this local paper added seven automated voice selections
in Spanish to its "Info Connect" service. Lines report local and
national news in Spanish, with the national news coming off satellite, and
local news recorded by members of Montvue Baptist
Church.
Professor David Julseth
Belmont College
Nashville, TN
Working with his students, helped to develop Spanish translation of TN
driver’s license manual.
Knoxville Legal
Aid Society (KLAS)
Knoxville, TN
Provides legal services to indigent persons in ________________ counties.
Bi-lingual staff attorney John Bell, coordinator
of the Knoxville Pro Bono Project, is working with Melinda Meador and Fran Ansley
to organize pro-bono assistance by private lawyers in and around Knoxville
to Latinos and Latinas who are unable to pay for legal services. Bell
also hopes to work toward more frequent bi-lingual help at the
"Saturday Bar" program of the Knoxville Pro Bono Project, where
private lawyers do initial interviews at the KLAS office for people needing
pro bono assistance.
La Cosecha (The Harvest)
Spanish-language newsletter of the Diocese of Knoxville
Legal Aid Society of Nashville
Nashville, TN
(615) 244-6618
Provides legal services to indigent persons in ________________ counties.
Bi-lingual paralegal Grace Guerra works with Spanish-speaking victims of
domestic violence.
Legal Services of Upper East Tennessee
311 W. Walnut Street
P.O. Box 360
Johnson City, TN 37605-0360
(423) 928-8311
Bi-lingual, native-born staff attorney Bill Francisco spends half his
time representing farmworkers on a variety of
claims.
Lisa Martin
(See also Migrant Headstart)
Knoxville, TN
Melinda Meador
Bass, Berry & Sims
Knoxville, TN
(423) 521-0368 (work)
Together with John Bell and
Fran Ansley
is working on a new effort to organize pro-bono assistance by private
lawyers in and around Knoxville to Latinos and Latinas who are unable to
pay for legal services.
Radio Melodias
WNQM – AM 1300
(615) 255-1300
Contact: Eliud Treviño
Migrant GED
Conference Center
Building
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, TN
Loida Velazquez, director. This program (with
offices at the University of Tennessee, and field offices in Morristown,
Tennessee, in Hendersonville,
North Carolina, and in Spartanburg,
South Carolina) provides GED
instruction to migrant farmworkers and provides
informal help of various kinds to the Hispanic community in the triangle of
its territory.
Montvue
Baptist Church
Morristown, TN
Reverend William Burton pastor, Reverend Alexis Andino,
associate pastor
Strong outreach program to Hispanic community.
Nashville Hispanic
Soccer League
Active in founding: Naser Reyes (615)
333-0568, Jose Narcio, Jesus Rodriguez. See
article in Tennesseean, 3/10/98.
Office of the Public Defender
Nashville, TN
(615) 880-3770
Bi-lingual staff attorney Mary
Griffin is assigned full-time to represent Latino/a criminal defendants in Nashville.
Bi-lingual attorney Amy Harwell also occasionally represents
Spanish-speaking clients.
Rural Legal Services of Tennessee
P.O. Box
Oak Ridge, TN
(423)
Provides legal services to indigent persons in __________________
counties. Part-time bi-lingual paralegal and Peruvian lawyer Paula
Trujillo provides assistance to Spanish-speaking clients.
Fred Ramos
Nashville, TN
Bi-lingual attorney born in Colombia,
South America but raised in Tennessee.
With his brother and law partner Mario Ramos, Mr. Ramos represents many
Spanish-speaking and other immigrant clients. Editor of Bravo Tennessee!, a bi-lingual newspaper published in Nashville.
(615) 329-4698
Mario Ramos
Nashville, TN
Bi-lingual attorney born in Colombia,
South America but raised in Tennessee.
With his brother and law partner Fred Ramos, Mr. Ramos represents many Spanish-speaking
and other immigrant clients. Founder of Unamonos,
a Hispanic civil rights and political organization in Nashville.
(615) 329-4698
Blanca Rojas
Unicoi County
Migrant Head Start Family Services Specialist
(423) 610-5521
Rural Legal Services of Tennessee
P.O. Box 5209
Oak Ridge, TN 37831
(423) 483-8454
email: hn0517@handsnet.org
Cookeville office:
P.O. Box 637
Cookville, TN
38503
(931) 528-7436
Servicio Latino
(615) 277-4952
Contact: Rosemary Rodriguez.
SOS Ayuda Internacional
– Spanish Outreach Services\
(615) 360-6557
Provides general help and support to Hispanic immigrants in Nashville.
Eloy Guerra, honorary Mexican consul and
retired attorney, is the founder.
Renata Soto
United Way
Nashville, TN
Helped to found Alianza Latina in Nashville.
Co-presents a bi-weekly radio talk show in Spanish, "El café de
la siete.," on 1300 am.on every
other Tuesday evening.
Southern Empowerment Project (SEP)
Maryville, TN
Trains organizing and fundraising staff for grassroots groups.
Director, June Rostan. Staff member Walter Davis.
Spouse Abuse Advocates (listed Alphabetically by County)
ANDERSON
Cookie Spillers
Assistant District Attorney General
Room 127 Anderson Cnty Courthouse
Clinton, TN 37716
457-5640
CAMPBELL
Sher Byrd
8th Judicial District
Attorney General's Office
P.O. Box 323
Jacksboro, TN 37757
566-0199 or 566-1583
MORGAN COUNTY
Katrina Webb
Battered Women, Inc.
Box 3063
Crossville, TN 38555
KNOXVILLE
Kathy Hatfield
Child & Family Services
901 E. Summitt Hill Drive
Knoxville, TN 37915
524-7483
YWCA/Victim Advocate
Room 127 Anderson Cnty Courthouse
Clinton, TN 37716
District Attorney's Staff/Victim's Advocate
Pam Shire
Room 127 Anderson Cnty Courthouse
Clinton, TN 37716
457-5640 or 457-9352
NASHVILLE
Kathy England
Tennessee Task Force Against
Domestic Violence
P.O. Box 120972
Nashville, TN 37212-0972
386-9406
PUTNAM
Ruby Thompson
145A S. Jefferson Avenue
Cookeville, TN 38501
ROANE
Patricia Murphy,
Assistant District Attorney General
P.O. Box 703
Kingston, TN 37763
Stephen Andrew
Victim's Advocate
Attorney General's Office
P.O. Box 703
Kingston, TN 37763
Stacy McCoy
Coalition Against Domestic Abuse
146 East Race Street
Kingston, TN 37763
SCOTT
Tracey Orick
District Attorney's Office
P.O. Box 10
Huntsville, TN 37756
663-2544
office - 663-9317
Spouse Abuse Shelters (Listed Alphabetically by County)
Anderson County
Betty Spence
YWCA Shelter
1660 Oak Ridge Turnpike
Oak Ridge, TN 37830
482-0005
Campbell County
Karen Griffin
House of Hope
P.O. Box 103
Jacksboro, TN 37757
562-8325
Toll Free - 1-888-844-HOPE
Claiborne County
Shannon Ellis
CEASE
P.O. Box 216
Tazewell, TN 37879
626-4446
Cumberland County
Sharon Williams
Battered Women, Inc.
Box 3063
Crossville, TN 38555
484-4642
456-0747-Office
Fentress County
Mickey Cannaday
Family Mission
PO Box 1195
Jamestown, TN 38556
879-1660
Hamblen County
Jackie Flemming
CEASE
P.O. Box 3359
Morristown, TN 37815
Knox County
Jennifer Dritt
Sexual Assault Crisis
Center
PO Box 11523
Knoxville, TN 37939-1523
558-9040
Knoxville
Kathy Grasch
Sexual Assault Crisis
Center
PO Box 11523
Knoxville, TN 37939-1523
558-9040
Loudon
Kris Preston
Domestic Violence
Crisis Center
P.O. Box 802
Lenoir City, TN 37771
988-7867
Putnam County
Jenelle Clark
Genesis House
P.O. Box 1183
Cookeville, TN 38503
526-5197
Roane
Kingston Community
Center
(Shelter)
Betty Spence
201 Patton Ferry Road
Kingston, TN 37763
423-376-0062
Scott County
Dinah Carson
P.O. Box 643
Huntsville, TN 37756
423-663-4444
F- 663-9567
Christine Stroebel
Nashville Health Department
311 23rd Ave. North
Nashville, TN
(615) 862-5900 ext. 648
Did health survey on Nashville Latino community.
TennCare Hispanic Advocacy Program
1103 Chapel Avenue
Nashville, TN 37206
(800) 254-7568
(615) 227-7568
Affiliated with Tennessee
Health Care Campaign
Staffed by Teresa Medina, who answers a Hispanic hotline, taking
referrals from TennCare offices throughout the
state. Can send bi-lingual literature on TennCare.
Tennessee
Association of Legal Services (TALS)
211 Union St. #833
Nashville, TN 37201
(615) 242-0438
Tim Watson, Executive Director
Tennessee
Industrial Renewal Network
1515 E. Magnolia, Suite 403
Knoxville, TN 37917
(423) 637-1576
Statewide economic justice organization interested in labor and other
civil rights of immigrant workers.
Organizer: Cheryl Brown
Tennessee Justice Center
Nashville, TN
(615) 255-0331
Gordon Bonnyman, Director; Michelle Johnson and
Russ Overby, staff attorneys.
The Center pursues legislative advocacy and litigation focused primarily
on issues of access to health care for medically indigent persons in Tennessee,
and on the functioning of Tennessee’s
new Families First program. No bi-lingual staff.
Tennessee Valley
Unitarian Universalist Church
Knoxville, TN
Sponsors a Guatemalan refugee family. Does an annual Guatemala
festival.
Charles Torres
531 South Gay Street
Suite 800
Knoxville, TN 37902
A Puerto-Rican-born bi-lingual attorney whose practice includes many
Hispanic clients.
Eliud Treviño
Does Spanish-language programming in Nashville.
Radio Melodias, WNQM, AM 1300.
(615) 331-3497
Unamonos
Nashville, TN
(615) 329-4588
Founded by Mario Ramos, this organization advocates for civil rights for
Hispanics in Tennessee.
Includes church, business, community members.
La Voz de Borinque
WABD Radio
(931) 645-4312
Contact: Israel
Gonzalez
 Regional & National Resource Contacts
(listed alphabetically)
Advocates for Basic Legal Equality (ABLE)
520 Madison
740 Spitzer Building
Toledo, OH 43604
Legal services office that serves many Latinos.
Jesus Salas, staff attorney
American Immigration Lawyers Association
[See on-line listings]
Appalachian Peace
Education Center
P.O. Box 2611
Abingdon, VA 24212
(540) 628-9905
Is doing outreach to local migrant community in southwest Virginia.
Sponsors annual fiesta in mid-September when migrants return to the
community for apple harvest.
Ayuda, Inc.
1736 Columbia Rd. NW
Washington, D.C. 20009
(202) 387-4848
(202) 387-0324 (fax)
www.incacorp.com/ayuda
Represents low-income Latinos/as in a variety of matters, including
domestic violence and consumer protection. Has
information in English and Spanish and some other languages about legal
rights and responsibilities.
California Rural
Legal Aid
Represents farmworkers in California.
Campaign for Labor Rights
1247 E Street SE
Washington, DC 20003
(541) 344-5410
CLR@igc.org
www.summersault.com/~agj/clr
Organizes campaigns and does education about labor rights of workers in Central
America and other low-wage countries, and occasionally about
labor rights of low-wage workers in the U.S.
Center for Immigrant Rights
48 Saint Marks Place
New York, NY 10003
(212) 505-6890
(212) 995-5876 (fax)
Has a newsletter and a publications list on a
range of issues related to immigration and immigrants’ rights. Some
material specific to New York.
Center for Third World
Organizing
1218 East 21st Street
Oakland, CA 94606
(510) 533-7583
(510 533-0923 (fax)
An organizing training center that works extensively with immigrant
communities.
Central Coast
Citizenship Project
Salinas, CA
www.newcitizen.org/our.html
Saul Garcia, executive director.
Paul Johnston, staff.
A young organization that helps people get formal citizenship and to
exercise their rights after having done so.
El Centro Hispano
Durham, NC
(919) 687-4635
Florida Immigrant
Advocacy Center
3000 Biscayne Blvd., Suite 400
Miami, FL 33137
(305) 573-1106
Spin-off from legal services, to retain ability to represent
undocumented, etc.
Women’s project funded through VAWA called LUCHA
Florida Inland Counties Online Network (ICON)
Florida Rural Legal
Services
Contact: Steve Hitov
This project hopes to use internet capacity and the public library
system in rural Florida
counties to bring legal education and representation to the dispersed rural
client base of FRLS, and to help farmworkers
build their own communication capacity.
Friends of Farmworkers, Inc.
924 Cherry Street 4th
floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107-2411
(215) 733-0878
(215) 733-0876 (fax)
General counsel: Arthur Read, at extension 150.
Glenmary Comissioners
P.O. Box 2132
Morganton, NC 28680
(423) 439-9792
Francisco Risso, together with Justo German Castro Lux and
his wife Transita work with the growing
low-income Latino community (largely Guatemalan) in Morganton,
NC. They are part of a project
sponsored by the Catholic Church’s Glenmary
order, which has "comissioners" working
with local communities in various places around the world.
Immigration and Legal Assistance Project
Raleigh, NC
(919) 856-2183
Contact: Jena Matzen
International Labor Rights Education & Research Fund
110 Maryland Avenue,
Room 410
Washington, DC 20002
(202) 544-7198
laborrights@igc.apc.org
Contact: Pharis Harvey
Works on international labor rights, including rights of migrant
workers.
Interhemispheric Resource
Center
Box 4506
Albuquerque, NM 87196-4506
(505) 842-8288
resourcectr@igc.apc.org
http://www.foreignpolicy-infocus.org
Publishes policy papers on the maquila
industry, globalization, development, etc.
Las Americas
Refugee & Asylum Project
El Paso, TX
(915) 747-8639
Director, Ada
Gonzalez-Peterson
Latino Workers
Center
191 E. 3rd Street
New York, NY 10009
(212) 47-3936
latinowc@injersey.com
Mexican American Legal Defense Fund (MALDEF)
(213) 629-2512
Mexican American
Studies Center
University of Arizona
Tuscon, AZ
National Council of La Raza
1111 19th St. NW
Suite 1000
Washington, DC 20036
(202) 785-1670
The National Immigration Project
of the National Lawyers Guild
14 Beacon Street, Suite 602
Boston, Massachusetts 02108
(617) 227-9727
fax: (617) 227-5495
email: nip@nlg.org
National Interfaith Committee for Worker Justice
1020 West Bryn Mawr, 4th Fl.
Chicago, IL 60666)-4627
(773) 728-8409
niwj@igc.org
www.igc.org/nicwj
contact: Kim Bobo
Organizes and educates members of the religious community about issues
and campaigns that will improve labor conditions, especially for low-wage
workers, in the U.S.
and elsewhere. Strong involvement with attempts by immigrant poultry
workers to organize on the Delmarva Peninsula.
National Network for Immigrant & Refugee Rights (NNIRR)
310 8th St.
Suite 307
Oakland, CA 94607
(510) 465-1984
nnirr@nnirr.org
www.nnirr.org
North Carolina Farmworker Project
P.O. Box 352
Benson, NC 27504
(919) 894-7406
North Carolina Farmworkers Legal Services
Raleigh, NC
(919) 856-2180
contact: Mary Lee Hall
Northern California Coalition on
Immigrants Rights
(415) 243-8215
Program in Refugee and Asylum Law
University of Michigan Law
School
Ann Arbor, Michigan
Prof. James Hathaway, Director
Project South
251 Georgia Avenue, Suite 344
Atlanta, GA 30312
(404) 584-7141
projectsouth@igc.apc.org
contact: Jerome Scott
Public Justice Center
500 East Lexington St.
Baltimore, Maryland 21202
(410) 625-9409
(410) 625-9423 (fax)
www.publicjustice.org
contact: Deborah M. Thompson, Senior Attorney
Regional Economic Justice Network
413 E. Chapel Hill St.
Durham, NC 27701
(919) 683-3145
contact: Leah Wise, director
David Rockefeller
Center for Latin
American Studies
Harvard University
61 Kirkland Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
Sin Fronteras
El Paso, TX
www.farmworkers.org
Director: Carlos Marentes
Organizes farmworkers in El
Paso, Texas, including
migrant workers from Mexico,
many of whom work in the New Mexico
chili harvest.
Julian Samora Research Institute
Michigan State University
112 Paolucci Building
East Lansing, MI 48824-1110
(517) 432-1317
(517) 432-2221 (fax)
jsamorai@pilot.msu.edu
Interim Director (1999) Jorge Chapa
Ten-year-old research institute focusing on Latino population in the Midwest.
Previous director, Refugio Rochin now directs
Hispanic program at the Smithsonian. Quarterly newsletter, "Nexo."
Trabajadores Agricolas
P.O. Box 352
Benson, NC 27504
(919) 894-7406
Non-profit group seeking to help farmworkers
defend their rights.
Texas Rural
Legal Aid, Farmworker Division
109 No. Oregon, Suite 710
El Paso, TX 77901
Michael Wyatt, director
The Workplace Project
91 N. Franklin Street, Suite 207
Hempstead, NY 11550-3003
(516) 565-5377
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