Mekela A. Goehring
Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network
Mekela Goehring, Esq., is the Executive Director of the Rocky Mountain Immigrant Advocacy Network (RMIAN), a nonprofit organization that provides free immigration legal and social services to individuals in civil immigration detention in Colorado, as well as to children and families throughout the state. Mekela has worked at RMIAN for the last seventeen years, starting as the organization's first staff attorney representing detained clients before the Executive Office for Immigration Review, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Mekela currently serves on the Colorado Crime Victim Services Advisory Board. Mekela has served as an adjunct professor for externships at the University of Colorado Law School. Prior to working at RMIAN, Mekela clerked for Judge Casebolt at the Colorado Court of Appeals. Mekela graduated summa cum laude from the University of Colorado at Boulder and earned her J.D. from the University of Colorado Law School. She was admitted to the Colorado bar in 2002. Mekela has been a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association since 2003. In 2013, the American Immigration Lawyers Association awarded Mekela the Arthur C. Helton Human Rights Award for her outstanding service in advancing the cause of human rights. In 2018, the University of Colorado Law School awarded Mekela the Dean's Choice-Dean Edward C. King Making a Difference Award. In her free time, Mekela enjoys spending time with her husband, two children, and all their animals in the Colorado outdoors.
09/23
