Kate Weaver

Kate Weaver is the Nimick Forbesway Foundation Legal Fellow in the Immigration Law Clinic, which represents clients in immigration matters such as asylum, applications for citizenship (naturalization), adjustment of status (green cards), family-reunification, obtaining employment benefits, and deportation defense.

Prior to joining the Immigration Law Clinic, Kate was an Immigrant Justice Corps fellow in Portland, Maine, where she represented low-income immigrants, including asylum seekers, survivors of domestic violence, and victims of crimes. She successfully litigated two asylum hearings in her time there. In 2023, she graduated from Duke Law, where she directed the school’s student-run immigration pro bono organization, participated heavily in the Immigrant Rights Clinic, and volunteered for several pro bono projects serving immigrants in North Carolina. While in law school, she interned at the Southern Poverty Law Center in Georgia, representing detained immigrants seeking release, and at the Conseil d’Etat in France. Prior to law school, Kate engaged in several immigration research projects, on topics such as migrant family separations, perceptions of refugees, and the impact of the 1967 Refugee Protocol. Kate speaks English and French, and she is learning Spanish.