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Guerline L. Laurore

Guerline L. Laurore (she, her, hers) is the founder, president and CEO of ISAFER. She was inspired into action by her own experiences of trauma as well as her experience helping survivors of violence spanning several decades. First, as a therapist, as a certified legal intern, as an attorney helping survivors receive immigration benefits under the Violence Against Women’s Act (VAWA). She has also assisted women who left their home countries to avoid Female Genital Mutilation to be performed on them and/or their daughters. She is a certified Human Rights Trainer and a certified Human Trafficking Trainer.

After experiencing abject trauma in Haiti, she was smuggled into French Guiana where she remained until she moved to France where she received a bachelor’s degree (Licence) in Psychology in 1995 and a master’ Degree (Maitrise) in Clinical Psychology and Psychopathology in 1996, both from the University of Provence Center of Aix.

She moved to the United States in 1997, and in 2004, she received a Juris Doctor Degree from Widener University School of Law in Wilmington, Delaware. In 2022, Laurore earned a Master in Public Administration from the University of Pennsylvania Fels Institute of Government, summa cum laude. While at Penn, she served as the Graduate and Professional Student Assembly Director of Equity and Access and received the 2022 Fels Institutional Service Award for outstanding dedication to the Fels community and the University of Pennsylvania.

Laurore is licensed to practice law before the United States Supreme Court and several other courts. She is fluent in English, French, Haitian Creole, Portuguese, and Spanish. President Biden appointed her to serve on the PA State Advisory Committee to the United States Commission on Civil Rights, sits on the board of the World Affairs Council of Harrisburg, is past President of NAACP Wilkes-Barre, and has served on several community organizations throughout the Commonwealth including the Governor’s Advisory Commission on African American Affairs.

Guerline is the Chief Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at Pennie and previously served as the Director of Mediation, and Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs. During her time at PHRC, Laurore received the 2021 PHRC Executive Director Excellence Award and PHRC 2021 Best Social Justice Team Award for her work leading the Mediation Division and a 2022 award co-chairing a groundbreaking two-day School to Prison Pipeline Committee Conference. In addition, she received the 2021 Trailblazer in Public Policy Award by the National Coalition of 100 Black Women, Harrisburg Chapter. Laurore maintained a prominent immigration law practice for over ten years before joining the Commonwealth as PHRC Director of Policy and Intergovernmental Affairs. In addition, she taught as an adjunct faculty at several colleges and universities in Psychology and Law.

She is the 2011 recipient of the Pennsylvania Young Lawyers Division Michael K. Smith Excellence in Service Award. Ms. Laurore was selected as a Pennsylvania Bar Association Minority Bar Committee, Rising Star. She was named one of Lulac Political Letter’s 2018 Women We Love. She lives with her partner and children in Central Pennsylvania

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Guerline L. Laurore

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