Katie Annand is an Immigrant Legal Defense (ILD) Managing Attorney leading ILD’s Legal-Education partnerships with the Oakland Unified School District, a unique program that provides direct representation to K-12 students and families in removal proceedings. In this capacity, Ms. Annand represents current and former students and works with school and district staff to secure wrap-around services for clients. Ms. Anand is a statewide expert on SIJS and on representing unaccompanied children; she is a co-chair of the Practicing Law Institute course on Representing Unaccompanied Children in California and serves as a Steering Committee member of Immigrant Health Equity and Legal Partnerships (ImmHELP), a collaborative of medical and legal partners striving to improve access to health and legal systems of immigrant children and families. She is also a member of the End SIJ Backlog Coalition Youth Working Group, in which she works alongside young people affected by the SIJS backlog and other legal services providers and has contributed to numerous publications amplifying the stories of unaccompanied children and the detrimental impacts of the U.S.’s harmful immigration policies. Before joining ILD, Ms. Annand worked at Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), she also ran a solo practice supporting SIJS eligible youth and at the start of her legal career, was an associate at Reed Smith in San Francisco and also worked with San Francisco’s Immigration Center for Women and Children.