Denise C. Bell is Senior Fellow at Niskanen Center, where she leads its sponsorship portfolio with a focus on private sponsorship and refugee labor mobility. She is a co-founder of Welcome.US and its first Partnership Director, before transitioning to consulting as a Senior Advisor on Sponsorship Policy. She previously worked at Amnesty International USA, in various roles leading its research and campaign work on refugee and migrant rights and pioneering its work on community sponsorship in the United States, helping to lay the foundation for the establishment of the Welcome Corps. While at Amnesty, she published reports and briefings on refugee resettlement and community sponsorship, family detention, unaccompanied children, immigration detention and enforcement, climate displacement, and the role of technology and corporate actors in immigration enforcement; she also contributed to publications and briefings on sponsorship, forcible family separation, the U.S. asylum system, border enforcement, immigration detention, temporary protected status, climate change and displacement, COVID-19, and the use of mass surveillance through facial recognition technology affecting racial justice and the rights to privacy and to freedom of peaceful assembly and expression. Denise is the author of numerous op-eds and has been quoted in and appeared on multiple outlets. After graduation from Georgetown University Law Center, she was chosen for the U.S. Department of Justice Attorney General’s Honors Program and served as an Attorney Advisor on the New York Immigration Court. She is also a graduate of the University of Michigan and the University of Cambridge, where she was a Power Scholar. Her professional journey and personal commitment to working on refugee and migrant rights began when she worked with refugees and internally displaced persons in Croatia following the Dayton Peace Accord. Denise is a Truman National Security Fellow and served on the Board of Directors of Refugee Council USA for a number of years. She is barred in the state of New York and previously sat on the City Bar’s Immigration and Nationality Law Committee.