Jeff Migliozzi

Communications Director | He/him

Jeff is a communications and organizing strategist committed to abolishing the immigration detention system and working to build a world where liberation and dignity are a reality for all. He joined the FFI team in 2021.

Jeff leads the organization's communications efforts by elevating the voices of immigrants impacted by the detention system, developing strategic messaging and narrative change campaigns, and highlighting FFI’s programs and reports. Jeff believes that many well-meaning people are aligned with abolition, but they just don’t realize it. He believes effective communications campaigns can change this and help educate the public to grow the movement to end immigration detention.

Before joining the FFI team, Jeff worked as a media strategist at the Southern Poverty Law Center, where he focused on growing the organization’s immigrants’ rights work through campaigns and media projects that featured the voices of immigrants detained in ICE prisons across the Deep South. Jeff carries experience in the immigrants’ rights movement, in addition to environmental justice and workers’ rights advocacy. He has organized with and advised several unions and grassroots organizations across the country, including the Sunrise Movement.

Jeff received his Bachelor's degree from the University of Pittsburgh, where he studied communications, Spanish, and Latin American studies. During his time in college, Jeff was involved in community and political organizing, eventually going on to co-found a new political club on campus. He organized students around issues involving criminal justice reform and campaigned for the school to adopt a sanctuary university policy. In Spring of 2021, Jeff received the Carroll Kowal Journalism Award for an op-ed piece he co-authored on unaccompanied immigrant children that was published in The New York Times.