Katherine Kaufka Walts
Director, Center for the Human Rights of Children
Co-Director, Holistic Immigration Hub
School of Law
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kkaufkawalts@luc.edu
Expertise In
- Immigration Law
Katherine Kaufka Walts, JD, is the director of the Center for the Human Rights of Children at Loyola University Chicago. The Center represents, coordinates, and stimulates efforts of the Loyola University community to understand and protect the human rights of children utilizing an interdisciplinary approach. Kaufka Walts is co-director of Loyola’s Holistic Immigration Hub, which brings together experts from law, health care, education, and social work to train future attorneys and judges, social workers, educators, and health practitioners in a first-of-its-kind effort by an American university.
Kaufka Walts has provided expert testimony to local, national, and international governmental bodies. Kaufka Walts continues to provide technical assistance, training, and consultation to law enforcement, service providers, task forces and coalitions, government agencies, federal and local law enforcement, and media in the U.S. and internationally on the subject of human trafficking.
Focus Areas
- Immigration law
- International human rights
- Children’s rights
- Child labor
- Human trafficking
- Child trafficking
- Child exploitation
- Child labor and sex trafficking
- Immigrant crime victims
- Migrant child crime victims
