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Eric Lee
President/Executive Director
Eric Lee is an immigration lawyer and federal litigator who served as lead counsel in Dep't of State v. Muñoz and argued the case before the U.S. Supreme Court in April 2024. Eric has extensive experience litigating visa denials and challenging the "doctrine of consular nonreviewability" and in 2024 the American Immigration Lawyers Association awarded Eric and the Muñoz litigation team the Jack Wasserman Memorial Award for excellence in litigation in the field of immigration law. Eric graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2015.
David Strashnoy
Vice President
David Strashnoy is the co-founder of the Consular Accountability Project and the Managing Attorney of David Strashnoy Law, PC. As a former consular officer with the United States Department of State, David specializes in resolving the most difficult consular processing matters across all visa categories, typically involving cases that were previously denied at a U.S. embassy or consulate abroad. David spent nearly ten years serving with the Department of State in Latin America, Europe, Russia, and Washington, D.C., where he developed a broad immigration expertise through years of experience managing overseas consular operations and adjudicating all classes of visas.
Jesse Bless
Vice President
Sabrina Damast
Treasurer
Sabrina Damast is an attorney in Los Angeles, California, focusing on removal defense, immigration-related federal litigation, appeals, family-based immigration, humanitarian immigration and post-conviction relief. She is an active member of several bar associations, and the long-time leader of Girl Scout Troop 10395. In her free time, she enjoys swimming, swing dancing, and Broadway musicals.
Christopher Dempsey
Secretary
Christopher W. Dempsey, principal of Dempsey Law PLLC, based in Jacksonville, Florida, served with the Office of Immigration Litigation at the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C. for over a decade. Mr. Dempsey is a combat-Veteran having deployed to Afghanistan in support of Operation Enduring Freedom. Flowing from this experience, Mr. Dempsey volunteers assisting disabled and homeless Veterans in need through several local, national, and international non-profit organizations.