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For Immediate Release        
Contact: Dan Gordon ,
617-651-0841 
Oct. 21, 2021 

**Mayorkas, Grandi to Headline Virtual Convening**

**3 to 5 p.m. EDT Monday and Tuesday;****register here**

**WASHINGTON, D.C.**- A series of timely conversations about
immigration next week will include Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro
N. Mayorkas and UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi.

The National Immigration Forum's annual Leading the Way
convening will air
virtually from 3 to 5 p.m. EDT Monday and Tuesday.

Other speakers will include Reps. Adam Kinzinger (R-Illinois) and Jason
Crow (D-Colorado), whom the Forum is recognizing for their work to
support Afghan evacuees, and Chobani CEO Hamdi Ulukaya. A conversation
on combating extremism and nativism will feature Elizabeth Neumann,
Chief Strategy Officer at Moonshot and a member of the Council on
National Security and Immigration ; Peter Wehner,
Senior Fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center; and David French,
Senior Editor at The Dispatch.

Embargoed quotes from this conversation and others are available to
media; please contact Dan Gordon .
Find the full list of speakers below and more information here
. To access the
convening schedule and register to attend, sign up via Eventbrite
. 

**Full Speaker List:**

**Mindy Belz**, Senior Editor, WORLD News Group

**Rep. Jason Crow (D)**, 6th District of Colorado, U.S. House of
Representatives

**David French**, Senior Editor, The Dispatch

**Filippo Grandi**, United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees

**Michelle Hackman**, Immigration Policy Reporter, The Wall Street
Journal

**Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R)**, 16th District of Illinois, U.S. House of
Representatives

**Yuval Levin**, Director of Social, Cultural, and Constitutional
Studies, American Enterprise Institute (AEI)

**Tom Linebarger**, Chairman and CEO, Cummins Inc.

**The Rev. Ed Litton**, President, Southern Baptist Convention

**Secretary Alejandro N. Mayorkas**, Department of Homeland Security

**Chandler Morse**, Head of DC Office/North America Public Policy,
Workday

**Elizabeth Neumann**, Chief Strategy Officer, Moonshot

**Edgar Sandoval Sr**., President and CEO, World Vision U.S.

**Hamdi Ulukaya**, Founder and CEO, Chobani

**Krish O'Mara Vignarajah**, President and CEO, Lutheran Immigration
and Refugee Service (LIRS)

**Peter Wehner**, Senior Fellow, Ethics and Public Policy Center

**Portia Wu**, Managing Director of U.S. Public Policy, Microsoft

**Jenny Yang**, Senior Vice President of Advocacy and Policy, World
Relief

**Keepers of the American Dream Honorees:**

**Soren Bjorn**, President, Driscoll's of the Americas

**Kit Danley**, Founder and President, Neighborhood Ministries (Phoenix)

**Linda Y. Rivas**, Executive Director, Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy
Center (El Paso, Texas)

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