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published May 21, 2011

According to the May 15th sacbee.com article, ''US law students help resettle Iraqi refugees'', co-founder Becca Heller's idea for IRAP began when she was in the Middle East for a human rights internship in 2008. Curious about the refugees she had been hearing about, she met with six families in Jordan over the course of a week. Expecting to find them in need of humanitarian aid, Heller was surprised to learn that the common denominator among the families was their need for legal advice and assistance; following the sectarian violence after the Iraq war began, scores of people just like these families fled Iraq, and were unable to return for fear of death.

Classmate and co-founder Jonathan Finer of Washington, D.C., started recruiting both Yale students and law firms to assist the refugees.

Heller was quoted as saying: ''IRAP is such a crazy accident.''

Since its inception in 2009, ''IRAP has grown to'' encompass ''a dozen law schools in the United States, and has...opened a branch at the University of Jordan. Nineteen law firms provide free legal help.''

Additionally, the group has given the White House briefings and met with the foreign minister of Jordan at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel in New York.
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According to the article, Heller cited a case of which she was particularly proud. A ''family's application was originally rejected for failure to prove persecution, but'' because IRAP appealed, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security reversed the decision, partially because a girl in the family suffered from severe seizures. IRAP made arrangements for her to receive free medical treatments, and coordinated transportation for the family to the doctor. Students collected clothing and furniture donations and assisted the family in setting up an apartment in New Haven.

Heller was quoted as saying: ''Literally families will live or die depending on the outcome.''

Becca received her J.D. from Yale Law School in May 2010. During law school, she participated in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic, the Immigration Legal Services Clinic, and the Lowenstein International Human Rights Clinic. She served as an articles editor for the Yale Journal of International Law, co-directed the Rebellious Lawyering Conference and received a Coker Fellowship to teach legal writing to first year law students, according to information at IRAP's website. Heller has received a Skadden Fellowship and an Echoing Green Fellowship in recognition of her work for IRAP. She is currently teaching IRAP as a seminar at Yale Law School. There, she is a visiting clinical lecturer in law.
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