Powered by newcomer immigrant youth and their families

Mission and vision

Project Libertad empowers newcomer immigrant youth and their families by providing essential, youth-led, and youth-centered legal and social services. 

​We envision a world where all newcomer immigrant youth have access to the legal services, social services, academic support, and leadership opportunities needed to thrive.

2022 Highlights

• Our Executive Director Rachel was named a 2022 L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth Honoree! Project Libertad received a $20,000 grant to support our mission, and HBO Max produced a documentary about our work.
• We launched Juntos para Jóvenes: United for Youth, a project that provides direct case management services to newcomer immigrant youth and their families.
• We represented 80 immigrant youth in 127 immigration legal cases.*
  *Some youth may have more than one legal case opened for them.

View our 2022 Impact Report →

Our Executive Director is a 2022 L’Oréal Paris Women of Worth Honoree!

L’Oréal Paris has awarded Rachel Rutter, the Executive Director of Project Libertad, the prestigious honor of being named one of ten L'Oréal Paris Women of Worth in 2022, an award that recognizes the achievements of non-profit leaders making a profound difference in the lives of others by tackling some of our society’s most pressing issues. Rachel is being honored for her work to support and empower newcomer immigrant youth!

As a recipient, our organization has been awarded $20,000! We are thrilled about this amazing 
recognition and the grant, which is so critical to our work.

Recent news:

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Gettysburg College Magazine features our work!

Read the article!  →

We partnered with Aerie to make REAL change!

Our Executive Director Rachel Rutter was named a 2021 #AerieREAL Changemaker.​

2021 #AerieREAL Changemakers

Check out our feature on the Charity Matters Podcast with Heidi Johnson!

Listen to the podcast!  →

​Rachel Rutter shares Her Story with Kathy Romano 

Listen here!  →

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Volunteers make our work possible and enrich the lives of our clients through teaching ESL, running after-school programs, assisting with legal research, providing interpretation, fundraising, and more.

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