Staff

Eben Cathey - Communications Coordinator

TIRRC admin — Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:39:01 +0000

Eben joined the TIRRC staff as the Communications Coordinator in January of 2012. He was born and raised in Smyrna, Tennessee and graduated in 2006 from Rhodes College in Memphis, with a Bachelor’s in Political Science and the Classics. He was awarded a Rotary Ambassadorial Scholarship to study in South Africa for a year where he earned a Master’s degree in Political and International Studies.

In 2009 he returned to Tennessee and began work as a Field Organizer for My Global Voice, a non-profit committed to ending the production of nuclear weapons in Tennessee. Over the past two years, Eben has worked with many local community organizations like the Worker’s Dignity Project, Nashville Cares and the UN Foundation. Before joining TIRRC, Eben worked for the Association of Hole in the Wall Camps' Global Partnership Initiative in Ethiopia where he trained young leaders to run summer camps for children living with HIV.

He has lived in Scotland, France and South Africa and speaks French and some Spanish.

E-mail: eben@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 615-775-1069

Stephanie Teatro

TIRRC admin — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 16:25:52 +0000

Stephanie Teatro joined the TIRRC staff in January 2012 as the Policy and Civic Engagement Coordinator. Prior to joining the staff of TIRRC, Stephanie was a union organizer with AFSCME, organizing public employees in Alaska, Florida, and Wisconsin. Stephanie spent two years in Thailand working for an alternative study abroad program that worked in solidarity with people’s movements in Northeast Thailand. Stephanie graduated from the University of Washington in Seattle in 2009, where she earned her BA in history with a focus on labor studies. While in Seattle, Stephanie supported the movement for immigrant rights through her activism within Jobs with Justice, the Washington Immigrant Rights Action Coalition, and El Comite Pro-Reforma Migratoria y Justicia Social.

Email: Stephanie@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 615-833-0384 ext. 118

Sara Jane Saliba

TIRRC admin — Thu, 01 Dec 2011 16:26:00 +0000

Sara Jane is the organizational development and financial management leader at TIRRC, and has been with the organization since 2003. She holds a Bachelor of Arts in International Studies and Development Studies and a Master’s in Social Work with a Concentration in Management and Community Practice. She has considerable experience in nonprofit management with organizations that serve immigrants and refugees, including previously serving as the programs manager for the Somali Community Center. Sara Jane speaks French and Maghrebi Arabic.

Email: Sara@tnimmigrant.org
Phone: 615-833-0384 ext.101

Amelia Post

TIRRC admin — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:26:00 +0000

Amelia is a native of the Bay Area in California who first made her way to TIRRC as a Generation Change Intern in 2007. In 2008 she returned to TIRRC as the Civic Engagement Coordinator. She is a graduate of School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University, with her Bachelor’s in Culture and Politics. She has worked with community organizations in the Bay Area, Washington, D.C., Nicaragua, the Dominican Republic, and Tennessee. She is fluent in Spanish.

Email: Amelia@tnimmigrant.org
Phone: 615-833-0384 ext. 108

Priscilla Norman

TIRRC admin — Sat, 01 Oct 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Priscilla is originally from Manchester, TN. She came to TIRRC in the spring of 2011 and is the Finance and Human Resource Manager. She holds a Bachelor of Business Administration in Management and a Master’s in Organizational Management

Email: Priscilla@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 615-833-0384 ext. 103

Gaby Marquez-Benitez

TIRRC admin — Thu, 01 Sep 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Gabriela Marquez-Benitez was born in Chihuahua, Mexico and immigrated with her family to Memphis, TN at the age of 6. Gaby has been very active in her community and has worked specifically with the youth in the Greater Memphis Area. She obtained her Associate’s degree in Sociology and General Studies from Southwest TN Community College in December 2008. She is now working on her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology with Spanish and Non-profit Management minors at the University of Memphis.

Her work with TIRRC began in the Fall of 2010 as West TN organizer in Memphis. Her goals include strengthening our relationship with immigrant and refugee groups in the region, recruiting a grassroots, dues-paying membership, and coordinating local advocacy work.

Email: Gaby@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 901-692-2933

The West TN TIRRC Office is located at 1000 South Cooper Street, Memphis, TN 38104.

Megan Macaraeg

TIRRC admin — Mon, 01 Aug 2011 15:27:00 +0000

Megan Macaraeg was born in the Philippines in Lingayen, Pangsinan. She emigrated with her family to the United States in 1974 during the period of the Marcos dictatorship and martial law in the Philippines. After graduating with degrees in Political Science and Philosophy from Eastern Illinois University, she went on to pursue graduate studies at the University of Illinois in Chicago. There, she became engaged in social change work in the Pilipino community, working on issues such as the abuse of immigrant domestic workers, the mail-order-bride industry, and the militarization of the Philippines. Megan is a graduate of the Center for Third World Organizing’s Movement Activist Apprenticeship Program in 1999. Before coming to TIRRC, she served for almost 3 years as the Director of Mid-Tennessee Jobs with Justice, and has been a union organizer with the Laborers’ International Union of North America. Megan speaks English, some Spanish, and some Tagalog. Megan is the Organizing Director at TIRRC and works statewide with leaders to build power in their communities for immigration reform and other issues relevant to the immigrant and refugee community in Tennessee.

Email: Megan@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 615-833-0384 ext. 104

Lindsey Harris

TIRRC admin — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 15:28:00 +0000

Lindsey is a Nashville native. She was a Generation Change intern in the summer of 2008, and then came on staff as the Project Manager in August of 2008 before transitioning to become the Donor Relations Manager in the Spring of 2011. Lindsey coordinates TIRRC's major events, the website and data management and nonfoundation fundraising efforts. She has her bachelor’s degree in Spanish Teaching from Lipscomb University and her Masters Degree from Belmont University in Nonprofit Leadership. She is fluent in English and Spanish, has studied and travelled extensively in Central and South America.

Email: Lindsey@tnimmigrant.org
Phone: 615-833-0384 ext. 102

Rebecca Hall

TIRRC admin — Wed, 01 Jun 2011 19:59:00 +0000

Bio coming soon.

Email: Rebecca@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 605-833-0384 ext. 105

Anahí Gutierrez

TIRRC admin — Sun, 01 May 2011 17:00:00 +0000

Anahí Gutiérrez was born in Mexico City raised in Monterrey, Mexico. Anahi graduated with honors from the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (ITESM) where she received a Bachelor's in Law.

She and her husband moved from Mexico in 2006 to Nashville TN to attend graduate school at Vanderbilt University. She graduated Vanderbilt University Law School with an LL.M degree in 2007.

In Mexico she practiced law for several years before moving to the US; in the US she worked on research projects from the International Legal Studies Department from Vanderbilt University Law School before joining TIRRC. After establishing Nashville as her new home, Anahí started getting involved more in the community and that is how her work started with TIRRC.

Currently she is TIRRC’s Community Resource Coordinator. With this position she hopes to be a good source of information, advice and referral for the immigrant community in need. She is fluent in Spanish, English and some French.

Email: Anahi@tnimmigrant.org

Phone: 615-833-0384 x 109.

For referrals, you can also contact her at TIRRC's hotline number at 615- 414-1030