Immigration Lawyer and Community Volunteer from Brooklyn Chosen to Join FYLPRO Immersion Trip

Amanda J. Bernardo, Esq. from Brooklyn is the Philippine Consulate General in New York’s delegate to this year’s FYLPRO. (Photo by Pineapple Industries)

24 August 2017 NEW YORK – The Philippine Embassy in Washington, DC has announced the 10 delegates to the Filipino-American Young Leaders Program (FYLPRO) 2017, including Brooklyn native Amanda J. Bernardo, Esq. She will be travelling with the cohort in an immersion trip to the Philippines to meet with leaders of government, industry, business, culture, and social enterprise from 8 to 14 October.

An immigration attorney, Ms Bernardo is the Chair of the Immigration Committee of the Asian American Bar Association of New York, and the Public Relations Chair of the Filipino American Lawyers of New York. She recently collaborated with Congresswoman Nydia Velasquez and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Jose Antonio Vargas to educate Filipino immigrants on their rights in the United States.

Atty Bernardo has helped win asylum for refugees, and has assisted in transforming the experience of Filipinos and underrepresented communities in the immigration system.

For her FYLPRO legacy project, she plans to launch a US-wide “Know Your Rights and Resources” program for new Filipino immigrants.

Amanda joins ten other FYLPRO alumni from the US Northeast since the flagship program’s launch in 2012: Michael Vea (New York, 2012); Steven Raga (New York, 2012); Rachelle Peraz Ocampo (New York, 2013); Edward Santos (New York, 2013); Ryan Letada (New Jersey, 2014); Bernadette Contreras (New York, 2014); Nicole Ponseca (New York, 2015); Jennifer Coliflores (Massachusetts, 2015); Jhett Tolentino (New York, 2016), and Noel Joseph Aglubat (New York, 2016).

For more information, visit www.newyorkpcg.dfa.gov.ph / www.newyorkpcg.org or https://www.facebook.com/PHLinNY/. END