CMA Internship Wrap-Up: Leilany Rodriguez Reflects on a Summer of Advocacy
August 23, 2025
For over three decades, the Seamen’s Church Institute’s Center for Mariner Advocacy (CMA) has hosted summer interns from Tulane University School of Law. This summer, CMA was pleased to welcome Leilany Rodriguez to this longstanding program. During her time with CMA, Leilany made meaningful contributions across a range of advocacy, research, and outreach initiatives: Before returning […]
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USCG Personnel Training to Address Mariner Well-Being
September 20, 2024
Phil Schifflin, Jr., Esq. Director, Center for Mariner Advocacy Recently, the Center for Mariner Advocacy has been frequently assisting U.S. Coast Guard personnel who encounter mariners in problematic situations aboard foreign-flagged vessels. Although our advocacy work has mainly involved blue-water and brown-water mariners, my predecessor, Doug Stevenson, and I have previously assisted and trained Coast […]
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