Host Site: JFS of Metrowest
Location: Framingham

At JFS, Leila is helping clients apply for citizenship, tutoring in ESOL and civics, and recruiting and managing volunteers to do the same. She is also involved in supporting undocumented immigrants, first generation college students, refugees and asylees, and families in the Framingham Public School system with everything from basic needs, to accessing health insurance, to ESOL and job readiness.

Leila is originally from New York and recently completed a Fulbright program in Morocco.