Zaeda Blotner

Bio

Zaeda Blotner (she/her/ella) is the Immigrant Child Health Program Administrator. She collaborates with faculty members and community partners on various projects supporting the wellbeing of immigrant youth and families through interdisciplinary collaboration, impact measurement, trauma-informed care, and centering community voice.

Zaeda is dedicated to immigration justice and community empowerment. Prior to this role, she was a paralegal specializing in complex removal defense and humanitarian immigration. She also trained as a labor organizer, supporting immigrant low-wage workers in San Francisco to win back stolen wages and advocate for immigrant workers’ rights protections. She has over 5 years of extensive volunteer experience supporting asylum seekers in ICE detention and at the US-Mexico border, as well as with local mutual aid. Before realizing she could make a career in community empowerment, Zaeda received her bachelor's degree in Bioengineering from Stanford and had dreams of academia.

Zaeda owes everything to the organizers and advocates of color who trained her, the immigrant communities that have let her learn from them, and her clients and community members that have been her most valuable teachers. She models her own work after that of the refugee community in her hometown.

Current Role at Stanford

Immigrant Child Health Program Administrator

Service, Volunteer and Community Work

• Study Coordinator, Colibrí Research Collective, Ayudando Latinos a Soñar (ALAS)

  Location

  Half Moon Bay

• Member, ImmHELP Medical-Legal Collaborative

  Location

  San Francisco/Bay Area