Immigration Lawyer, Activist
Previously Aired On: April 5, 2006 - Listen to this Show!
Rick Swartz is a nationally recognized strategist on a range of public policy issues, including immigration, civil and human rights, economic growth, taxes and trade. He has strong ties to both political parties. Since 1990, as President of Rick Swartz & Associates and The Public Strategies Group, Mr. Swartz has led several successful left-right coalitions to support democracy and human rights in China and other countries, significant increases in immigrant visas, fast-track negotiating authority for NAFTA, growth with equity tax policies and campaign finance reform. Mr. Swartz is a magna cum laude graduate of Amherst College where he was honored as First Citizen of the College, and a 1975 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School, where he served on the law review.
His most recent accomplishments include successfully organizing and directing a broad-based coalition to secure passage of legislation in 1997 and 1998 that provides resident status for hundreds of thousands of Central American and Haitian refugees respectively. Since 1989, Mr. Swartz has served as primary advisor to the China democracy movement, organizing broad-based coalitions to link China NIFN to human rights improvements and to otherwise promote democratic reforms. He has served as the Vice-President and Senior Counsel for the China Strategic Institute, a think tank founded by key leaders of the China democracy movement. Mr. Swartz also serves as the Washington counsel for the National Coalition for Haitian Rights, and serves on the Board of Directors of the National Immigration Forum and the Southeast Asia Resource Action Center, the major umbrella group for Vietnamese and other Indo-Chinese refugees in the United States.
In 1990, Mr. Swartz started a small public policy firm which represents a range of financial, ethnic, corporate, non-profit and human rights groups on national and international issues.
April 5th, 2006
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