Biography
Matthew Gilbert Weisner is the Directing Attorney at the Immigration Project of the Community Action Board of Santa Cruz County, Inc. Mr. Weisner received his J.D. from UC Davis School of Law and his B.A. with High Honors from the University of California, Santa Barbara. He was admitted to the California Bar in 2013, and previously worked as the Supervising Immigration Attorney at Catholic Charities of the East Bay and as a Senior Immigration Attorney with the Central American Resource Center of Northern California (CARECEN SF). As an immigration attorney, Mr. Weisner has represented over a hundred unaccompanied minors in a variety of affirmative and defensive casework, including asylum, special immigrant juvenile status (SIJS), U-Visa, T-Visa, family-based visa petitions, and other immigration remedies. Mr. Weisner has represented unaccompanied minors before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR), and family and probate courts in San Francisco, San Mateo, Contra Costa, and Alameda counties. He served as American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) NorCal co-liaison to the San Francisco Asylum Office from 2018-2020 and was a featured panelist at the 2020 AILA National Conference on Immigration Law. In his free time, Mr. Weisner likes to listen to podcasts and hike in the Santa Cruz redwoods with his wife.