The World's First Non-Profit AI Lab for Immigrant Justice
 

Dear Friend,
 

Today Justicia Lab is proud to announce the launch of Justicia Lab AI, a new initiative to bring together immigrant advocacy groups and AI innovators in the service of immigrant justice. 

Our challenges as a movement are vast and the traditional tools to deliver support and safety to the millions of immigrants in need of representation have proven insufficient. From instantaneous interpretation to plain language legal explanations and more, artificial intelligence offers us the potential to bridge the justice gap like never before. As Artificial Intelligence brings transformative changes to our world, immigrant advocates need a trusted mission-based technology partner to help them harness these new technologies to accelerate justice. Enter Justicia Lab AI.

The Justicia Lab AI initiative seeks to bridge the tech divide between immigrant-serving organizations and developers of AI technology by delivering public education and workshops on AI, providing information on the ethical and practical considerations in using AI technologies, and co-designing practical AI solutions.

Justicia Lab AI is supported with $500,000 in seed funding from Google.org as well as technical capacity, mentorship, and pro bono support delivered through Google.org’s inaugural Gen AI Accelerator for nonprofits. 

While there is deserved distrust about the potential harm posed by AI, there is also a need for greater understanding on how AI can be beneficial in helping immigrants navigate America’s ever changing immigration policy landscape. 

To address these challenges, Justicia Lab AI will focus in on three key areas:

• Promoting the Responsible Use of AI

• Delivering Public Education & Workshops on AI

• Co-Designing & Prototyping AI Solutions

Justicia Lab AI has also assembled an Advisory Group made up of immigrant advocates, technologists, researchers and policy experts from Google. Microsoft, The Catholic Legal Immigration Network, International Rescue Committee (IRC), the National Immigration Forum, UnidosUS, Immigrant Legal Resource Center, Stanford Immigration Policy Lab, National Partnership for New Americans (NPNA), and USAHello. Interested in learning more? Read our full press release or send us a message.
 

We are grateful to all of our founding partners for their commitment to innovation and the exploration of outsized solutions to tackle some of our most pressing problems. Thank you for joining us on this journey.

With gratitude,
Rodrigo and the Justicia Lab Team

About Justicia Lab

Justicia Lab is Pro Bono Net’s immigrant justice technology lab, and a nonprofit legal tech initiative whose mission is to transform immigrant justice through collaboration, creativity, and technology. We work hand in hand with immigrants and their advocates to identify common challenges and incubate scalable digital tools to advance help immigrants navigate our immigration system, find workplace justice, and more.