Camille J. Mackler

Camille J. Mackler is the founder and principal strategist of The Other 54 Strategies. An immigration attorney and policy expert with two decades of experience, her work examines how migration policy intersects with national security, executive power, and emerging technologies. Previously, she founded and served as Executive Director of Immigrant ARC, a collaborative legal services organization created in the wake of the 2017 Travel Ban that grew to include more than 80 legal service providers across New York State.

During her career, she has helped lead legal and policy responses to the Travel Ban, family separation, the Afghanistan evacuation, and the arrival of asylum seekers in New York City. She has testified before Congress, the New York State Legislature, and the New York City Council on immigration and national security issues. She was previously a Visiting Senior Fellow on immigration at the Truman Center for National Policy and previously served as Director of Immigration Legal Policy at the New York Immigration Coalition. She is a graduate of New York Law School and Georgetown University’s Walsh School of Foreign Service.