Rachel is the Managing Attorney at Oasis Legal Services and oversees their LGBTQIA+ Asylum Program. Rachel is a graduate of New York University School of Law. Prior to Oasis, she practiced immigration law at the East Bay Sanctuary Covenant where she helped run the LGBTQ/HIV Asylum Program and supervised pro bono attorneys and law students. Rachel also worked as an Assistant Public Defender for three years in Miami-Dade. During law school she interned for the San Francisco Public Defender’s Office and Make the Road New York, an immigrant rights advocacy organization.
Rachel Kafele
Protecting LGBTQ Lives By Restoring the Rule of Law to the US Immigration System