What an amazing year!
In 2024 MIRA launched our Advisory Committee, added several new board members, and welcomed quite a few new additions to the team:
Daisy Guzman – Director of Development • AC Chavez Andonie – Corporate Engagement Specialist • Catherine Kannam – IAS Staff Attorney • Slandy Sannon – IAS Program Coordinator • Eva Ng – Sr. Director Finance & Administration • Dawn Miller – External Affairs Specialist • Laura Perras – Director of Communications • Ruth James – Membership Coordinator
Some highlights:
ADVOCACY
MIRA’s Advocacy team had a busy year, and celebrated several hard won successes! Physician Pathway Act signed into law! – Safe Communities Act advanced to Ways and Means – Language Access & Inclusion Act advanced to Ways and Means
TPS CLINICS
MIRA collaborated with United States Citizenship and Immigration Services, the MA Office of Refugees and Immigrants, and more than 25 other partners to initiate 35 clinics in only 50 days, assisting individuals applying for Temporary Protected Status. In addition to setting a national record for the number of TPS applications submitted in one day, 3,323 individuals and their families are now one step closer to safety and stability.
IAS (Immigrant Assistance Services)
MIRA’s IAS program was piloted in 2023 with a grant from the Commonwealth. Now in our second year, the team continues to successfully support new arrivals. 1215 households referred to program – 832+ children served – 146+ pro-se asylum applications filed – 300+ know your rights trainings
IMMIGRATION ADVOCATE LEGAL HELPLINE
The Immigration Advocate Legal Helpline is an initiative piloted by MIRA in 2024 to help immigration advocates find answers to common legal questions, with the intention of freeing up immigration attorneys to focus on more complicated legal issues. Approximately 390 immigration inquiries received since April – launched an internship and hosted 2 undergrad interns
CITIZENSHIP
MIRA celebrated the promotion of a new Citizenship director in 2024. Approved for 2 year USCIS grant – 2 new NAIP members onboarded – more than 450 applications filed – ~40 DACA renewals submitted – collaborated with 10 community partners to hold ~15 out-of-office citizenship clinics! 
NAIP AMERICORPS
It was a fantastic year for NAIP as well! Secured 7 new site partnerships – selected to speak at the Americorps Opening Day 2025 event
TRAINING
MIRA’s Training team organized and ran multiple trainings and workshops for individuals as well as organizations. They also created critical community facing resources in multiple languages.
Know Your Rights Workshops: 706 Individuals trained – 109 Community Advocates trained
Winter & Summer Training Series: 278 signups
Organizational Trainings: 3000+ people reached – 90+ trainings – 16 trainings for members
40-Hour Immigration Training: 68 students
Community Representation Fellowship: 8 Fellows
Resources: 12 multilingual factsheets, Notario fraud animated videos in 5 Languages
ORGANIZING
MIRA’s Organizing team accomplished an enormous amount in multiple areas, focusing on relationship building and on-the-ground networking, prioritizing outreach and instituting regular 1 on 1 meetings with member organizations.
Community outreach: Fall Regional Meetings with ~60 orgs from Southwest, Western,Northeast, and Central MA (intentionally prioritized these areas to amplify voices that are often distant from Greater Boston) – attended and tabled at 65 community events – in collaboration with Membership, hosted one of MIRA’s most well attended Annual Membership Meetings – piloted and successfully facilitated the SUN fellowship program (Stories of Us Now)
Civic Engagement : Held 22 voter registration drives – registered ~720 new voters – phone banking reached over 1,100 registered voters
Community activation & grassroots organizing: Launched the #CouragetoWelcome campaign – MIRA’s Petition in support of immigrants rights has collected 679 signatures – initiated 2 Safe Communities Act action alerts, resulting in ~4000 letters sent – 2 Budget Amendment action alerts, resulting in ~30 letters sent
Immigrants’ Day at the State House event: 300 attendees – 70+ orgs represented – 30 groups had meetings with 21 legislators 
MEMBERSHIP
Membership welcomed a new coordinator this year. Collaborating with multiple departments and prioritizing outreach, membership founded new relationships and strengthened established ones. Through outreach efforts and connection building grew MIRA’s Coalition network by 7 new organizations in as many months – collaborated with members for community meetings – established member to member calls – in collaboration with Organizing, hosted one of MIRA’s most well attended Annual Member Meetings this November
COMMUNICATIONS
MIRA’s communications department welcomed a new director in 2024. In addition to increasing capacity, communications was able to keep building on the already amazing work being done, and lay the foundation for even more intentional strategy, expanded reach and deep collaboration both within MIRA and across our wider Coalition. They implemented tools to better maximize capacity; audited communications processes and set up better analytics to be able to track and improve future work. In line with MIRA’s Strategic Plan, initiatives include moving into new communications spaces and platforms and projects focusing on immigrant centered narrative change work.
Social media following and engagement: new LInkedIn newsletter with 2000+ subscribers – 65% increase in Youtube subscribers – more than 1000 new followers on Instagram – 120+ media appearances and mentions
Video production: MIRA’s most widely shared video yet, with over 22,000 views!
Standing in Solidarity with the Haitian community 🇭🇹 – Sept. 24th rally in Boston
CORPORATE ENGAGEMENT
MIRA created this department in 2024, welcoming a new Corporate Engagement Specialist this summer. They hit the ground running, attending events and building relationships with coalition allies and identifying potential corporate partners, as well as facilitating a public webinar about the potential effects of the new administration.