Liz Sweet (she/her) has served as MIRA’s Executive Director since January 2022.  An expert on immigration law and policy, Liz has a record of more than 20 years of advocating for immigrants and refugees.  As MIRA’s Executive Director, she leads organizational strategy and advocacy efforts, and has been quoted in The Boston Globe, Politico, WGBH, State House News, and other outlets on a range of immigration issues.   

Prior to joining MIRA, she served in senior leadership roles at HIAS (founded as the Hebrew Immigrant Aid Society), including as Chief Operating Officer. A graduate of Northeastern University School of Law, Sweet set out to defend immigrants and asylum seekers in immigration detention during their deportation hearings. She later became the first full-time Director of the American Bar Association Immigration Justice Project in San Diego and then the Associate Director of the American Bar Commission on Immigration in Washington, DC.

Liz also served for six years as the Chair of the Board of Detention Watch Network, a national coalition building power through collective advocacy, grassroots organizing, and strategic communications to abolish immigration detention in the United States.  She currently serves on the boards of the African Bridge Network and the National Partnership for New Americans.