Zaeda Blotner (she/her) is the Immigrant Child Health Program Administrator at the Stanford School of Medicine. Zaeda collaborates with faculty members and community partners to develop and manage various projects supporting the wellbeing of immigrant youth and families through interdisciplinary collaboration, impact measurement, trauma-informed care, and centering community voice.

Zaeda is dedicated to immigration justice and community empowerment. Prior to this role, she was a paralegal specializing in complex removal defense and humanitarian immigration. She also trained as a labor organizer, supporting immigrant low-wage workers in San Francisco to win back stolen wages and advocate for immigrant workers’ rights protections. She has over 5 years of extensive volunteer experience supporting asylum seekers in ICE detention and at the US-Mexico border, as well as with local mutual aid. 

Zaeda owes everything to the organizers and advocates of color who trained her, the immigrant communities that have let her learn from them, and her clients and community members that have been her most valuable teachers. She models her own work after that of the refugee community in her hometown.