Tennessee Immigrant Refugee Rights

The Tennessee Immigrant & Refugee Rights Coalition (TIRRC) is a statewide, immigrant and refugee-led collaboration whose mission is to empower immigrants and refugees throughout Tennessee to develop a unified voice, defend their rights, and create an atmosphere in which they are recognized as positive contributors to the state. TIRRC believes that real and lasting change must be led by those directly affected by injustice, and for this reason community organizing and leadership development are the core strategies it uses to realize its vision. TIRRC brings together diverse immigrant communities throughout the state to examine root causes, find common interests, and organize for better conditions. TIRRC strives to lift up the voices of directly affected people and invest in leaders at the grassroots level, and to ensure its theory of change is reflected in the way it makes decisions, in the work it undertakes today, and in the course it sets for the future.