Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos

Biography

Emmanuel Orozco Castellanos grew up in Jalisco, Mexico, before moving to Ecorse, Michigan. As a translator and research assistant, his work has focused on refugee and immigration advocacy, multilingual education, and international human rights. He has interned and volunteered with several civil society organisations, including AsylumConnect, Freedom House Detroit, and the Costa Rican Humanitarian Foundation. He was a fellow at Perseus Strategies, where he contributed to the Organization of American States’ first-ever report on the Responsibility to Protect. His work includes the development of public humanities projects celebrating Michigan’s immigrant communities. Emmanuel served as a paralegal at the Michigan Immigrant Rights Center, where he assisted attorneys representing unaccompanied children in federal immigration custody. He has also interned at the UN Refugee Agency. In Oxford, he earned an MSc in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies and a Master of Public Policy.