An Ethiopian-American attorney, futurist, writer, and researcher on migration, with special focus on gender and sexuality.  Tsion is a Black immigrant and a human rights lawyer deeply entrenched in the immigrant rights and Black Lives Matter (BLM) movements. She arrived in the US as an asylum seeker from Ethiopia with her family, and she now works closely with asylum seekers from Africa and the Caribbean.

  • 2018 Forbes 30 Under 30 Law & Policy honoree

  • 2019 OkayAfrica Top 100 Women honoree

  • 2019 NYU Law OUTLaw Alumna of the Year

  • 2020 NYU Law LACA Under 40 Rising Stars

  • 2021 NYU Law Women of Color Collective Alumna of the Year

  • 2022 ABA Top 40 Young Lawyers on the Rise honoree 

  • 2023 New York City Bar Association Annual Legal Services Award honoree

  • 2024 Marquis Who's Who honoree 

  • Audible, Kevin Hart presents Summer of ’85, July 2022

  • The Nation, Black Immigrants Matter, Mar. 2021

  • Black Agenda Radio, The State of Black Immigrants, Mar. 2021

  • Wisconsin Public Radio, Immigration Under the Biden Administration, Feb. 2021

  • American Bar Association, Persecuted and Marginalized: Black LGBTQ Immigrants Face Unique Challenges, Dec. 2020

  • Black Entertainment Television (BET), American Gangster: Trap Queens, Sep. 2020

  • Voice of America, Expanded US Travel Ban Renews Fierce Debate, Feb. 2020

  • Momentum: A Race Forward Podcast, An Expanded Lens on the Crisis at the Border, Oct. 2019

  • Law 360, Rights Org. Calls for Probe Of Allegedly Manipulated ICE Data, Oct. 2024

  • Workers World, Texas Governor Turns Cops Loose on Migrants, Jan. 2024

  • Common Dreams, Texas Gov. to Sign 'Harmful and Unconstitutional' Anti-Migrant Bills, Dec. 2023

  • KFOX14, Six Texas Groups Challenge Governor Abbott's Senate Bill 4, Calling It Discriminatory, Dec. 2023

  • WABE (Metro Atlanta Area NPR and PBS affiliate), New Open Records Documents Reveal CBP's Direct Role in Policing 2020 Racial Protests, Oct. 2023

  • CBS8, Migrants from Africa Seek Asylum at Border as Title 42 Nears End, May 2023

Tsion is one of the leading cutting-edge voices centering the voices of Black immigrants in the immigrant rights movement and supporting the growth of the ecosystem of Black immigrant rights organizations over the past 10 years.