Meet our Staff Team
Supervising Attorney
Seth Goodman Park
Seth is a lawyer and the owner of GoodmanPark Law, PLLC, a firm focused primarily on humanitarian-based immigration matters. Over 30 years of practice, he has handled immigration matters for multiple organizations, including HIAS, Safe Passage Project, and the Immigration Justice Campaign. From one-time counseling sessions to task-specific representations to complete case advocacy, Seth’s work has directly impacted over 1,000 immigrants from over 25 countries.
Program Manager
Sherri Levine
Prior to joining ASC in July 2023, Sherri was the Executive Director of Kolot Chayeinu/Voices of Our Lives, a Brooklyn-based progressive synagogue for six years, and the Associate Director of Fordham Law School’s Stein Center for Law and Ethics before that. Earlier in her professional life, Sherri worked as a union-side labor lawyer in NYC.
Coordinator
Edgar Ochoa
Edgar has spent the last two years volunteering with various NYC-based refugee and asylum seeker organizations providing cultural integration, job placement and interpreter services. His passion for serving this community began when he took part in greeting immigrants arriving at Port Authority. He joined ASC in Sept. 2024 to serve this community further. Originally from Miami, of Colombian descent, Edgar moved to NY over 25 years ago to work in the advertising and media industry where he had a successful career.
Steering Committee Members
Coco Fusco
Coco is a Cuban-American interdisciplinary artist and writer. She is a recipient of multiple fellowships and awards and her performances, interactive installations and videos have been presented in many biennials and festivals around the world. She is the author and/or editor of several publications and is a professor at the Cooper Union School of Art.
Amy Kantrowitz
Amy has two decades of experience working with startup NYC nonprofit organizations as staff, board member, consultant, and volunteer. From 2020-2021, she managed New Sanctuary Coalition’s volunteer programming, after volunteering for several years in both program and fundraising roles.
Nancy Goldhill
Nancy is a retired lawyer who spent most of her career working at Legal Services offices assisting poor and low-income people, including many immigrants. She was a volunteer attorney with the New Sanctuary Coalition, helping immigrants apply for asylum.
Nancy Muirhead
Nancy is counsel and corporate secretary at the Rockefeller Brothers Fund. Nancy was the volunteer attorney coordinator and worked as a volunteer lawyer at the New Sanctuary Coalition and is on the steering committee of the Refugee Employment Partnership.
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Stephan Russo
Stephan has extensive experience in the management and delivery of human services in NYC. He stepped down as the Executive Director of Goddard Riverside Community Center in February 2017 after a career spanning more than four decades. He is a fierce advocate for building strong communities to combat poverty and address issues of inequity and is on the Board of Centro de Recursos Educativos para Adultos, Inc. (CREA).
Michael Onah
Michael is a Staff Attorney in the Legal Aid Society’s Parole Revocation Defense Unit. He was previously a death penalty habeas attorney at Phillips Black, Inc., and an adjunct professor at St. John’s University School of Law. He was also a volunteer lawyer at the New Sanctuary Coalition.
Website design - Diana Steelman
Photography - Coco Fusco