{"id":88451,"date":"2022-03-17T15:29:07","date_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:29:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/?p=88451"},"modified":"2022-03-17T15:30:15","modified_gmt":"2022-03-17T15:30:15","slug":"krish-omara-vignarajah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/krish-omara-vignarajah\/","title":{"rendered":"Krish O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24px;\">Krish O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-88452\" src=\"https:\/\/websitedesigns.com.au\/elankanew\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/Michele-Obama-e1647530448536.jpg\" alt=\"Michele Obama\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #800080;\">Source:<\/span><\/strong><span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000; font-size: 16px;\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Krish_O%27Mara_Vignarajah\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">wikipedia<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><b>Krishanti O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah<\/b>\u00a0(born 1979) is a\u00a0Marshall Scholar<sup id=\"cite_ref-:3_1-0\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0and an immigration advocate serving as President and CEO of\u00a0Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.Previously, Vignarajah served as Policy Director to former First Lady\u00a0Michelle Obama.<\/span><\/p>\n<section id=\"content-collapsible-block-0\" class=\"mf-section-1 collapsible-block open-block\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">The second child of Elyathamby and Sothy Vignarajah,Krishanti Vignarajah has been called a prominent Maryland resident,and one of Maryland&#8217;s &#8220;Top 100 Women&#8221; and &#8220;Top 50 Influential Marylanders&#8221; by\u00a0<i>The Daily Record<\/i>.<sup id=\"cite_ref-14\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup>\u00a0She and her brother\u00a0Thiru Vignarajah\u00a0arrived in the United States as young children when their parents fled civil war in\u00a0Sri Lanka.\u00a0At\u00a0Yale College\u00a0she earned a B.S. in Molecular, Cellular and Developmental Biology, graduating\u00a0<i>magna cum laude<\/i>\u00a0and with\u00a0Phi Beta Kappa honors; she also earned a Master&#8217;s degree there in Political Science.\u00a0She was a 2002\u00a0Marshall Scholar\u00a0at the\u00a0University of Oxford,\u00a0where she received an M.Phil. in International Relations. She returned to\u00a0Yale Law School, where she served on the\u00a0Yale Law Journal.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Vignarajah is married to Collin O&#8217;Mara, president and CEO of the\u00a0National Wildlife Federation. Their wedding was officiated by\u00a0Senator Chris Coons of Delaware.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In June 2020, Vignarajah went public with her\u00a0breast cancer diagnosis.<sup id=\"cite_ref-17\" class=\"reference\">]<\/sup>\u00a0In an interview with\u00a0<i>The Baltimore Sun<\/i>, she said, &#8220;My hope is to do my part to lift some of the stigma and anxiety that sits around breast cancer.&#8221;<sup id=\"cite_ref-18\" class=\"reference\"><\/sup><\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<h2 class=\"section-heading collapsible-heading open-block\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span id=\"Career\" class=\"mw-headline\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"content-collapsible-block-1\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Career<\/span><span class=\"mw-editsection\"><a class=\"mw-ui-icon mw-ui-icon-element mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-edit-base20 edit-page mw-ui-icon-flush-right mw-ui-button mw-ui-quiet\" style=\"color: #000000;\" title=\"Edit section: Career\" href=\"https:\/\/en.m.wikipedia.org\/w\/index.php?title=Krish_O%27Mara_Vignarajah&amp;action=edit&amp;section=2\" data-section=\"2\">Edit<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<section id=\"content-collapsible-block-1\" class=\"mf-section-2 collapsible-block open-block\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Back from college for a summer, Vignarajah worked for Senator\u00a0Paul Sarbanes.\u00a0She has practiced law at\u00a0Jenner &amp; Block\u00a0in Washington, DC; she has clerked for Chief Judge\u00a0Michael Boudin\u00a0on the\u00a0U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, and has taught at\u00a0Georgetown University as an adjunct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">She was a Senior Advisor at the\u00a0U. S. Department of State\u00a0under Secretary\u00a0Kerry\u00a0and Secretary\u00a0Clinton.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Working in\u00a0Michelle Obama&#8217;s office, Vignarajah focussed on issues &#8220;related to entrepreneurship, private sector investment, infrastructure, women&#8217;s issues, engagement with youth and religious communities, climate change, and budget development and execution&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">Vignarajah ran for governor of Maryland in the 2018 primary election, finishing fourth. She gained &#8220;some national attention&#8221; because had she won, &#8220;she would have been the first woman, immigrant or person of color to be elected governor in the state&#8221;.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">In 2019, she became president and CEO of the Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.\u00a0During her tenure there, the refugee resettlement agency filed litigation against the Trump administration, challenging the legality of\u00a0Executive Order 13888, which seeks to give state and local officials the authority to opt out of refugee resettlement in their jurisdictions. In an interview with NPR, Vignarajah described the policy as &#8220;cruel and shortsighted,&#8221; and noted that &#8220;refugees that have been waiting to be reunited with their families for years may be forced to settle hundreds of miles away.&#8221;\u00a0Vignarajah also spoke out against the Executive Order in a\u00a0<i>Baltimore Sun<\/i> OpEd entitled, &#8220;The courts should declare Trump&#8217;s refugee order unconstitutional.&#8221;\u00a0The lawsuit has thus far resulted in a preliminary injunction against the policy, barring its implementation temporarily.<sup id=\"cite_ref-25\" class=\"reference\">[25]<\/sup><sup id=\"cite_ref-26\" class=\"reference\">[26]<\/sup>\u00a0In response, Vignarajah told\u00a0NBC News, &#8220;This injunction provides critical relief. Those who have been waiting for years to reunite with their families and friends will no longer have to choose between their loved ones and the resettlement services that are so critical in their first months as new Americans.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<h2 class=\"section-heading collapsible-heading open-block\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\"><span id=\"Selected_publications\" class=\"mw-headline\" tabindex=\"0\" role=\"button\" aria-controls=\"content-collapsible-block-2\" aria-expanded=\"true\">Selected publications<\/span><span class=\"mw-editsection\">Edit<\/span><\/span><\/h2>\n<section id=\"content-collapsible-block-2\" class=\"mf-section-3 collapsible-block open-block\">\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;How business leaders can help meet the needs of Afghan refugees&#8221;\u00a0<i>USA Today,<\/i>\u00a0December 9, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;As the U.S. approaches withdrawal, our Afghan allies&#8217; lives must be prioritized&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Washington Post<\/i>, June 6, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Sohail Pardis was beheaded because the US didn&#8217;t reward him for his service&#8221;\u00a0<i>CNN<\/i>, July, 28, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Don&#8217;t leave ICE out of police reform, brutality and racism in immigration enforcement&#8221;\u00a0<i>Houston Chronicle<\/i>, July 3, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;How The U.S. Can Fix The &#8216;Humanitarian Emergency&#8217; At The Border&#8221;\u00a0<i>NowThis News<\/i>, April 8, 2021<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;On World Refugee Day, a shameful U.S. record to confront&#8221;\u00a0<i>New York Daily News<\/i>, June 20, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;USAID&#8217;s mission is too important to politicize and obstruct&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Hill<\/i>, November 15, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Migrants in detention deserve dignity, sanitary conditions&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/i>, April 25,2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Massive detention facilities for migrant youth are failing&#8221;\u00a0<i>Miami Herald<\/i>, May 28, 2019<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Family separation of migrant children allowed U.S. government to &#8216;traffic in kidnapping'&#8221;\u00a0<i>The Baltimore Sun<\/i>, October 26, 2020<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-size: 16px; color: #000000;\">&#8220;Welcoming refugees is a matter of faith, economics, and freedom&#8221;\u00a0<i>Houston Chronicle<\/i>, January 13, 2020.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Krish O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah Source:wikipedia Krishanti O&#8217;Mara Vignarajah\u00a0(born 1979) is a\u00a0Marshall Scholar\u00a0and an immigration advocate serving as President and CEO of\u00a0Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service.Previously, Vignarajah served as Policy Director to former First Lady\u00a0Michelle Obama. 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