Lindsay Gifford is an anthropologist and refugee studies expert in the Pozen Center for Human Rights. While she has spent much of her career working with Middle Eastern refugees, Prof. Gifford herself is Mexican-American and has been active in the reception response with Spanish-speaking asylum-seekers in Chicago. Her international work with refugees in Damascus, Syria; Amman, Jordan; and Helsinki, Finland is now relevant as Chicago becomes another global urban center receiving large populations of refugees and experiencing many similar demographic and sociopolitical pressures as have been evidenced for years in refugee receiving cities in the Global South. Prof. Gifford has been working closely with Todo Para Todos, helping 250 migrants access asylum, work permits, and housing.