Each Step Home is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization fighting for all children harmed by America’s immigration policies.
Our work is wide-ranging and evolves to meet the needs of children and families whose lives are dramatically shaped by our country’s constantly shifting immigration policies.
Since 2025, ICE has detained over6,200 children with their families in deplorable conditions (The Marshall Project). Reports from ICE detention include worms in food, dirty water that causes stomachaches, and restless nights under fluorescent lights that never fully turn off. Many families, desperate for clean water and better food for their children, rely on what they can afford to buy at the commissary.
Family separations are increasing. Over145,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from a parent, and over22,000 U.S. citizen children have been separated from both parents. At least 4.6 million U.S. citizen children are living with a parent at risk of deportation (The Brookings Institution).
When a parent is detained, ICE takes their phone away, and their only option to call their family is to buy “minutes” from the detention center. Many parents don’t know if or when they’ll be going home. Because connecting detained parents to their children is a lifeline, we fund phone calls from detained parents to their families. We also manage the logistics and fees to help their children get passports, a critical step in keeping families together when parents are deported.
The atrocities inflicted on young children are committed by our government, in our name, and on our watch. We cannot look away. We cannot allow this to happen anymore. Together, we can build a nation of which we can all be proud: one that welcomes and protects vulnerable children. It’s up to us to demand better policies that protect each and every child.
A special thanks to our wonderful partners, as well as our hundreds of dedicated volunteers. We could not do our work without their dedication and support.
What we do
We support and protect children and families whose mental and physical wellbeing is being threatened by an inhumane immigration system.
We do whatever is necessary to get children released from government custody and back to the families who love them.
Our work includes:
Supporting the release of whole family units from family detention centers
Filling commissary accounts of parents and families in ICE detention centers help buy clean water, food children will actually eat, medicine, toiletries, and phone calls to lawyers and loved ones
Facilitating communication between parents in detention and their children
Helping parents obtain passports for their children – often an urgent requirement to keep a family together – including finding and funding notaries, expedited passport fees, and logistics
Providing immediate needs upon release from detention like transportation and phones
Providing advocacy and family assistance to expedite release of children from government custody
Supporting transportation costs for reunifications when children or parents are released from government custody
Helping prospective sponsors complete the required application paperwork
Arranging transportation to help families comply with the terms of their immigration proceedings
Working to return deported children to their families in the United States
Assisting families in countries of origin to locate their children who have come to or been deported from the United States.
We do this work in partnership with community and national civil rights organizations.
Our work includes:
Securing legal counsel for case management and ongoing consultation
Providing child and family cases for national class action lawsuits
Consulting with Congress on child immigration issues
Providing expert testimony in the form of reports, declarations as well as in-person testimony
Launching public campaigns to demand resolution of the suffering of specific families and children
Sponsoring and joining in campaigns which push for systemic change and policy initiatives supporting the protection of asylum
In partnership with research centers and universities, we create data-driven media, articles, and presentations.
Our work includes:
Participating in national and international speaking engagements, symposia, and conferences
Offering experience and expert opinions to journalists from major news outlets
Casey Revkin is a financial expert, mother, and dedicated supporter of migrant children. She founded Each Step Home after she learned the government had been separating families at the border in 2018. She has coordinated the release of thousands of children into the loving arms of their families, and has even hosted recently detained parents in her home. Casey, who has a young son named Emil, sees her work at Each Step Home as a natural extension of her years as an advocate for kids. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College and has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector.
Meghan is an immigration advocate and a core founding member of Immigrant Families Together (IFT), which launched in response to the family separation crisis brought about by the government’s zero tolerance policy in 2018. Since then, she has assisted in reuniting dozens of children with their loved ones. Meghan collaborates regularly with organizations including Miles4migrants, Women’s Refugee Commission, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and Church World Service. She also works as the Artistic Director of The Tank theater in Manhattan.
Micaela Coiro has been working as an immigration advocate since 2018, first privately and later as a member of Each Step Home. Since that time, she has assisted hundreds of families with children in federal custody. A professional in the hospitality industry since 2013, she brings her wealth of experience in relationship management to the organization, navigating many facets of reunification on a case-by-case basis and providing one-on-one support for Every. Last. One. families. Born in Cuenca, Equador, she studied Information Systems Technology at the Ingeniero de La Cierva in Murcia, Spain. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, and two young children.
A wife and mother of two, Holly fought alongside attorneys and advocates so that she and her husband might sponsor an 8-year-old migrant child who’d been illegally separated from his father at the border. The Sewells have since paved the way for successful sponsorships for children who would otherwise get trapped in the system. Holly brings a unique understanding of the challenges to obtaining sponsorship and the experience of caring for a traumatized child while sustaining that child’s connection to their family and culture.
Brian Swibel
Board Member
Brian Swibel
Board Member
Brian Swibel is a committed social justice and environmental activist. As a member of Represent Us‘s Creative Council he produces their annual Unrig Summit and their recent record-breaking online Unite to Save the Vote. An early advocate for Marriage Equality, he co-produced Broadway’s Defying Inequality concert and as an advocate for Native American rights, Swibel created the Zia Pueblo Theater Project. He is honored to serve on the board of Each Step Home.
A writer, director and four-time Tony nominated producer, Swibel is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning production, Triptyk Studios. Among his accolades, he is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Kodak Emerging Filmmakers honors. Select Broadway credits include the Tony nominated Xanadu, the Tony nominated You’re Welcome, America, 12-time Tony nominated, An American in Paris, The Seagull, Oh, Hello, The New One, the Tony nominated Beetlejuice, Amelie, King Kong, and Moulin Rouge.
Swibel wrote the series Big Dead Place, currently set up at Entertainment One with Vice Studios and Triptyk on board to produce and Emmy-winner Tim Van Patten attached to direct. He also co-created the civil rights series Forbidden Fruit with Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones. Swibel wrote and produced the award winning short film series that includes Sunset Town and Fault. For the web, Swibel directed and produced the record breaking web-series, Cubby Bernstein. Most recently, he produced the Netflix climate change documentary, Kiss the Ground.
Casey Revkin is a financial expert, mother, and dedicated supporter of migrant children. She founded Each Step Home after she learned the government had been separating families at the border in 2018. She has coordinated the release of thousands of children into the loving arms of their families, and has even hosted recently detained parents in her home. Casey, who has a young son named Emil, sees her work at Each Step Home as a natural extension of her years as an advocate for kids. She holds a B.A. in Mathematics from Reed College and has over 20 years of experience in the financial sector.
Meghan is an immigration advocate and a core founding member of Immigrant Families Together (IFT), which launched in response to the family separation crisis brought about by the government’s zero tolerance policy in 2018. Since then, she has assisted in reuniting dozens of children with their loved ones. Meghan collaborates regularly with organizations including Miles4migrants, Women’s Refugee Commission, The Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and Church World Service. She also works as the Artistic Director of The Tank theater in Manhattan.
Micaela Coiro has been working as an immigration advocate since 2018, first privately and later as a member of Each Step Home. Since that time, she has assisted hundreds of families with children in federal custody. A professional in the hospitality industry since 2013, she brings her wealth of experience in relationship management to the organization, navigating many facets of reunification on a case-by-case basis and providing one-on-one support for Every. Last. One. families. Born in Cuenca, Equador, she studied Information Systems Technology at the Ingeniero de La Cierva in Murcia, Spain. She lives in New Jersey with her husband, and two young children.
A wife and mother of two, Holly fought alongside attorneys and advocates so that she and her husband might sponsor an 8-year-old migrant child who’d been illegally separated from his father at the border. The Sewells have since paved the way for successful sponsorships for children who would otherwise get trapped in the system. Holly brings a unique understanding of the challenges to obtaining sponsorship and the experience of caring for a traumatized child while sustaining that child’s connection to their family and culture.
Brian Swibel
Board Member
Brian Swibel
Board Member
Brian Swibel is a committed social justice and environmental activist. As a member of Represent Us‘s Creative Council he produces their annual Unrig Summit and their recent record-breaking online Unite to Save the Vote. An early advocate for Marriage Equality, he co-produced Broadway’s Defying Inequality concert and as an advocate for Native American rights, Swibel created the Zia Pueblo Theater Project. He is honored to serve on the board of Each Step Home.
A writer, director and four-time Tony nominated producer, Swibel is the co-founder and Artistic Director of the award-winning production, Triptyk Studios. Among his accolades, he is the recipient of the Outer Critics Circle Award and the Kodak Emerging Filmmakers honors. Select Broadway credits include the Tony nominated Xanadu, the Tony nominated You’re Welcome, America, 12-time Tony nominated, An American in Paris, The Seagull, Oh, Hello, The New One, the Tony nominated Beetlejuice, Amelie, King Kong, and Moulin Rouge.
Swibel wrote the series Big Dead Place, currently set up at Entertainment One with Vice Studios and Triptyk on board to produce and Emmy-winner Tim Van Patten attached to direct. He also co-created the civil rights series Forbidden Fruit with Stevie Wonder and Quincy Jones. Swibel wrote and produced the award winning short film series that includes Sunset Town and Fault. For the web, Swibel directed and produced the record breaking web-series, Cubby Bernstein. Most recently, he produced the Netflix climate change documentary, Kiss the Ground.
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