All-Star 1 is a family-friendly conference at which you may start your summer with a restorative and relaxing week full of intellectual, musical, and other thoughtful and artistic pursuits that promote personal growth and inclusive community, where families, couples, and singles return year after year and where newcomers are warmly welcomed.

Ali Walton and Phil Quatrochi are long-standing members of the All-Star I community and are excited to chair this year’s conference. Ali started coming to All-Star I in the 70s with her parents and sister. Phil married into the experience in the 90’s and has been coming faithfully ever since. While living in the Denver area, they make at least a couple of trips to the Island each year. Ali is President of the ISAUU (which runs the Shops on Star), and Phil serves as the Shops treasurer.

Our committed speaker is New Hampshire attorney Ron Abramson. Ron began his career with the New Hampshire Public Defender’s Office in 1993 before establishing himself as one of New Hampshire’s preeminent immigration lawyers. In a career spanning over three decades, Ron has handled a multitude of immigration, criminal defense, civil litigation, and international legal matters. He has received numerous awards, been recognized as a top immigration attorney, served as an international trade consultant, and taught law courses in and abroad.

As a native of Chile and a naturalized United States citizen, immigration is close to Ron’s heart. He has successfully obtained all manner of business and family-based visas; has successfully brought post-conviction relief cases in state and federal courts; has taught at local, regional, and national training programs; and has litigated several appeals before the New Hampshire Supreme Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, and U.S. Circuit Courts. Ron’s work involves helping clients with investigations undertaken by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services [USCIS], U.S. Customs & Border Enforcement [ICE], the U.S. and New Hampshire Departments of Labor [DOL], Social Security Administration, State Department [DOS], and other federal and state agencies.

Given his keen personal and professional understanding of the challenges and hardships resulting from an outdated legal framework, Ron regularly advocates for meaningful, comprehensive immigration reform. When the media have questions about high-profile immigration cases, they often call Ron. Ron has appeared countless times on television, radio, and throughout local, national, and international print media.

Ron’s program will focus on the background and history of immigration in the US, common immigration facts and fictions, laws and policies being pursued by the new administration, and what we could fashion as an ideal immigration system.

Your day at All Star 1 might start with a morning meditation in the Summer House, a polar bear dip off the dock, or a cup of coffee on the Oceanic Hotel’s expansive porch. Your evening might end by attending (or even participating in) a show, chapel service, or late-night music. In between, you are served three nutritious family-style meals and can attend a morning lecture, catch an afternoon talk-on-the-rocks or nap, commune with nature, complete your crafts or puzzles on the porch, create your masterpiece in the art barn, or rock on a chair or in a band (so bring your musical instruments, whether acoustic or electric!). While each day is full of scheduled and impromptu activities, what and how much you choose to do is entirely up to you.

Please join us for a communal week of camaraderie, conversation, recreation, entertainment, laughter, learning, enlightenment, and discovery through cherished traditions and chance encounters that connect us to our spirit’s home.