The 2011 Safe Haven Awards celebrate our shared work to bring LGBT and HIV-positive immigrants and their families together — at home.
For one incredible evening, the entire Immigration Equality family comes together — our pro bono community, business coalition partners, and loyal supporters like you. Please join us.
MAY 31, 2011
TheTimesCenter
242 W 41st St / 8th Ave
6:30 pm Welcome Reception
7:30 sharp Awards Program
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Safe Haven Awards
Our award winners were chosen from among the 40 law firms that devote pro bono resources to LGBT asylum seekers and binational families. Together, these firms donated more than $11 million in legal services to Immigration Equality clients — winning 106 asylum cases in 2010, a 100% success rate.
This year's winners are Dechert LLP; Kramer Levin Naftalis & Frankel LLP; O’Melveny & Myers LLP; Ropes & Gray LLP;and Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP
Read more about our 2011 Pro Bono Awards honorees.
Erik & Ranesh Ramanathan launched the Ramanathan Urgent Opportunities Fund to accelerate Immigration Equality’s efforts on behalf of families like theirs. Ranesh is an asylee who became a naturalized citizen last year after 21 years in the US. Erik is the US-born half of this binational family, and together they are the parents of a young son. Today, Ranesh is Deputy General Counsel of Bain Capital, as well as General Counsel of its Sankaty Advisors and Brookside Capital trading businesses, and Erik is the Executive Director of the Harvard Law School Program on the Legal Profession. Together Erik and Ranesh have devoted over nine years of board service to Immigration Equality, including as board chair and treasurer, respectively.
Corporate Sponsors
Immigration Equality's Safe Haven Award sponsors are making a significant contribution to the development of immigration and asylum law for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and HIV-positive people seeking refuge in the United States.
To see learn more about our Corporate Sponsors and see the current list, visit the sponsors' page.
Host Committee
Co-chairs
Joseph Loy
Heidi Schmid
To learn more about the Host Committee and see its current members, visit the hosts' page.
If you’re a member of the media, click here for information on the 2011 Safe Haven Awards including recent interviews and press releases.