Sheyla Carew
Sheyla Carew has extensive legal experience including working as a student attorney at the UMASS School of Law Immigration Law Clinic where she represented clients and assisted with interpretation and translation. She has also interned at several law offices assisting with client intake, legal research, and translation of documents. She worked as the Interpreter/Translator/Volunteer Interpreters Program Coordinator at the Boston Housing Authority where she translates housing documents, interprets during meetings and hearings, and recruits and trains volunteer interpreters. Currently she holds the position as a Director of Language Access Services & Resident Engagement at Boston Housing Authority. She lives with her son, husband, and German shepherd.
Honorable Nina J. Froes
Honorable Nina J. Froes was a solo immigration law practitioner at the Law Office of Nina J. Froes in Massachusetts. Additionally, she was a clinical fellow at the Immigration Law Clinic at UMass School of Law. She also was the legal director of the Immigrant Victims Representation Project, Immigration Department, Catholic Social Services of Fall River, Catholic Charities USA, in Fall River, Massachusetts. As well as a fellow in the immigration unit at the Legal Assistance Corporation of Central Massachusetts in Worcester, Massachusetts. Judge Froes is a member of the Massachusetts Bar and the Rhode Island Bar. Currently, she holds a position as an Immigration Judge, Lowell Immigration Court. She lives with her two beautiful children.
Kurt Hagstrom, Esq.
Kurt Hagstrom, Esq. is partner at Hagstrom Law Group, P.C. His areas of practice include civil litigation, partnerships, corporations, and fishing regulation. In 2014 Kurt received his juris doctor degree summa cum laude from the University of Massachusetts School of Law. While at UMass Law, Kurt was editor-in-chief of the University of Massachusetts Law Review and was a speaker at the 2014 National Conference of Law Reviews. Kurt also worked for the New Bedford Harbor Development Commission, the Rhode Island Office of the Public Defender, and the UMass Criminal Prosecution Clinic.
Kurt grew up in Worcester. In 2004 he received a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago, and in 2009 he received an M.F.A. in Film Studies from Boston University. Kurt belongs to the Bristol County Bar Association and joined the Board of the New Bedford Bar Association in 2015. Kurt was elected Secretary of the New Bedford Bar Association in 2016.
Kurt grew up in Worcester. In 2004 he received a B.A. in English from the University of Chicago, and in 2009 he received an M.F.A. in Film Studies from Boston University. Kurt belongs to the Bristol County Bar Association and joined the Board of the New Bedford Bar Association in 2015. Kurt was elected Secretary of the New Bedford Bar Association in 2016.
Dr. Anisha Raibrown
Anisha Raibrown, DHSc, RDH, MSDH, originally from India, has extensive knowledge on oral health and has worked as a licensed dental hygienist for over twelve years. Anisha is committed to offering public health services to underprivileged populations and has given informational seminars on dental health in various settings, including homeless shelters, soup kitchens, and community centers in New Bedford and Boston, Massachusetts, West Bengal, India, Costa Rica, St. Lucia, Nepal, and Bhutan. She is committed to reducing the gap in oral health locally and globally through health care innovation and collaboration with various organizations. Anisha speaks English, Nepalese, Hindi, Bengali, and Adibhashi. Currently, she serves as board member of the Better Oral Health for Massachusetts Coalition (BOHMAC) which is a statewide organization which advocates for oral health policies to ensure that Massachusetts residents, especially those most vulnerable, have benefit of comprehensive oral health prevention and treatment services.
Stephen Samuel Brown, MBA, Esq.
Stephen S. Brown, MBA, is an attorney licensed to practice law in Massachusetts and Rhode Island. Between when Stephen was twenty-one and twenty-eight years old, he lived in India and Nepal, studying Tibetan. In India and Nepal, Stephen was deeply troubled by the plight of the very poor, underprivileged, and vulnerable populations he encountered in those countries. He was especially shaken when he witnessed a five year-old boy, named Sajen, die of malnutrition related complications in the village of Salbari, West Bengal. Stephen promised himself he would not forget Sajen and that he would work to make sure that other poor children like Sajen would not have to die from easily preventable complications.