• Political Asylum
• Removal Proceedings
• Appellate (Board of Immigration Appeals and Federal Court)
• Family Immigration
• Business Immigration
• Naturalization
• Researchers and Scholars
• Students
• Religious Workers

• American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA)
• Refugee & Asylum Liaison Committee (National)
  
• Distance Learning Committee (National) (Co-Chair) (2011-2012)
• Planning Subcommittee for 2011 AILA National Annual Conference, San Diego 
  (Fundamentals and Special Sessions)
• Immigration Reform (Advocacy) Committee (National) (2010-2011)
• Planning Committee for 2009 AILA National Fall Conference, Boston ("Goin' to the Crossroads of Immigration and Criminal Law: Convictions, Removability, and Relief")
• Planning Subcommittee for 2009 AILA National Annual Conference, Las Vegas 
  (Due Process, Enforcement, Criminal, and Asylum)
• Co-liaison with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
  (Minnesota/Dakotas AILA Chapter) (2009-2012)
• Immigrants of Distinction Awards Committee (Minnesota/Dakotas AILA Chapter)
• Federal Bar Association, Advisory Board Member, Immigration Law Section (2010-2012)
• Pro Se Project of the U.S. District Court, District of Minnesota, and the Federal Bar Association,
  Minnesota Chapter
• Steering Committee Member, National Campaign to Safeguard the Due Process Rights of Mentally Ill and Developmentally Disabled People, Capital Area Immigrants' Rights Coalition (2009-2010)
• American Bar Association
  • Immigration and Naturalization Committee
• National Immigration Project
• Immigrant Legal Resource Center (ILRC)
• Minnesota State Bar Association
• Immigration Law Section (former Chair)
• Human Rights Committee (Co-Chair)
• Diversity Planning Task Force (2009-2010)
• COLLEAGUE Program-Immigration Law (Consulting Attorney)
• Haiti Relief Committee (2010)
• Haitian Asylum Project (Catholic Emergency Legal Aid for Haitians), Miami, (May 1992)
• The Advocates for Human Rights (Consulting Attorney)
• 2010 Volunteer Award Co-recipient
• Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota (Volunteer Attorney)
• Marquis Who's Who in American Law®
• Southern Poverty Law Center (Wall of Tolerance Honoree)
• Martin Luther King, Jr. National Memorial (Founding Sponsor)
• Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice & Human Rights
• American Constitution Society for Law and Policy
• American Civil Liberties Union
• Minnesota International Center
• Center for Global Education, Augsburg College
• City of Shoreview, Minnesota Human Rights Commission (former Chair)
• Proud Sponsor of Programming at Community-Based KBEM-FM Radio (Jazz88FM), Minneapolis

Publications, Conference Presentations, Teaching:

Law (Immigration, Human Rights, and Legal Ethics)

• Recent Presentations
  • Moderator on "When All Else Fails: Prosecutorial Discretion."  2012 Upper Midwest Immigration Conference.  St. Paul.  (April 13, 2012).
  • Facilitator on "'Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, Your Huddled Masses Yearning to Breathe Free': A Tour of the Immigration History Research Center and its Archives, University of Minnesota."
    AILA Minnesota/Dakotas Chapter.  Minneapolis.  (October 14, 2011).
  • Panelist on "AILA National Conference Recap."   Minnesota State Bar Association. 
    Minneapolis.  (July 14, 2011).
  • Panelist on "The I-751 and Removal of Conditions on Residence."  2011 AILA National Annual Conference.  San Diego.  (June 16, 2011).
  • Moderator on "Professionalism in Immigration Courts: An interview with our local immigration judges."  Minnesota State Bar Association.  Minneapolis.  (June 3, 2011).
  • Panelist on "TPS and NACARA: What to do with an RFE or Denial."  2011 Federal Bar Association Annual Immigration Law Seminar.  Memphis.  (May 13, 2011).
  • Panelist on "Competency Issues: Working with the Mentally Disabled Respondent, Memory Loss, PTSD, and Other Competency Issues."  2011 Federal Bar Association Annual Immigration Law Seminar.  Memphis.  (May 14, 2011).
  • Panelist on "Asylum or Withholding Victory!  Now What?"  2010 AILA National Annual Conference, Washington, D.C.  (July 3, 2010).
  • Panelist on "Family Relationships, Joint Sponsorship, and Affidavits of Support."  2010 Federal Bar Association Annual Immigration Law Seminar.  Memphis.  (May 15, 2010).
  • Moderator for Panel devoted to Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and I-9 Audits.  2010 Upper Midwest Immigration Conference.  Minneapolis.  (May 7, 2010).
  • Moderator for Panel devoted to Comprehensive Immigration Reform (CIR).   Minnesota State Bar Association.  Minneapolis.  (April 19, 2010).
  • Panelist on "Applications for Relief and Waivers."  2009 AILA National Fall Conference.  Boston.  
    (December 14, 2009).
  • Panelist on "Inadmissibility and Deportability Defenses."  2009 AILA National Annual Conference.
    Las Vegas.  (June 5, 2009).
  • Panelist on "Bona Fide Relationships and the Child Status Protection Act, Parts One and Two."
    2009 Upper Midwest Immigration Conference.  Minneapolis.  (April 30, 2009).
• Recent Publications
  • 2013    "Fear is Not the Answer."  Asian American Press.  (5/3/2013).
  • 2013    "Change in the Wind (and in the Polls): Is this the Year for Comprehensive Immigration Reform?"  Korean Quarterly.  (Spring 2013).
  • 2013    REVIEW: "Drops of Remembrance."  Bracete, Juan M.  Vantage Press.  New York.  The Federal Lawyer.  (April 2013).
  • 2013    "Immigration Reform in a New Season of Hope."  Asian American Press.  (4/5/2013). 
  • 2013    "Unleashing the Creative Force of Immigrants in Our Communities." 
    Asian American Press.  (3/8/2013). 
  • 2013    REVIEW:  "James Scarth Gale and his History of the Korean People."  Rutt, Richard. 
    Royal Asiatic Society.  Seoul.  Korean Quarterly.  (Winter 2013).
  • 2013    "2013: The Year of Comprehensive Immigration Reform." 
    Asian American Press.  (2/8/2013).
    
  • 2013    "Immigration Enforcement and Detainers:  An Evolving Policy." 
    Asian American Press.  (1/5/2013).
    
  • 2012   "Lincoln, Immigrants, and these United States."  Asian American Press.  (11/30/2012).
  • 2012   "Political Parties, Platforms, and Immigrants."  Asian American Press.  (10/26/2012).
  • 2012    REVIEW: "Show Trials: How Property Gets More Legal Protection Than People in Our Failed Immigration System."  Afrasiabi, Peter.  Envelope Books.  New York.  The Federal Lawyer.  (December 2012).
  • 2012    "Political Parties, Platforms, and Immigrants: A Deconstruction of the Two Choices in the Upcoming Election."  Korean Quarterly.  (Fall 2012).
    
  • 2012    "Exercise of Discretion: Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals."  Asian American Press.  (9/14/2012).
    
  • 2012    REVIEW:  "Law and the Borders of Belonging in the Long Nineteenth Century United States."  Welke, Barbara Young.  Cambridge University Press.  New York.   The Federal Lawyer.  (September 2012).
  • 2012    "It's Time for Comprehensive Immigration Reform."  Asian American Press.  (7/6/2012).
    
  • 2012    "The Secure Communities Program in Minnesota."  Asian American Press.  (6/15/2012).
    
  • 2012    REVIEW:  "Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs."  Rogers M. Smith, ed. University of Pennsylvania Press.  Philadelphia.  The Federal Lawyer.  (January/February 2012).
  • 2011     "ANNOTATIONS to Form I-751, Petition to Remove Conditions on Residence."  Heather L. Poole, R. Mark Frey, and Ginger McGuire.  Forms and Fundamentals, 2011 Ed.  American Immigration Lawyers Association.
  • 2011     "A Brief Overview of Forms of Relief in Removal Proceedings."  Forms and Fundamentals, 2011 Ed.  American Immigration Lawyers Association.
  • 2010     "A Brief Review of Relief in Removal Proceedings."  Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law, 2010-2011 Ed.  American Immigration Lawyers Association.
  • 2009     "A Brief Review of Relief in Removal Proceedings."  Navigating the Fundamentals of Immigration Law, 2009-2010 Ed.  American Immigration Lawyers Association.
  • 2002     "Violence Against Foreign National Spouses and Children: The Impact of Domestic Abuse on Immigration Relief."  Love and Aliens.  Family Law Section.  Minnesota State Bar Association.

Intern Tutorials through Macalester College Internship Program
Coordinator, Law Professors Interest Group (AILA) (2005-2012)
Contributing Writer, Korean Quarterly
Former Community Educator, VISTA (Volunteers in Service to America)

• B.A.:    Anthropology w/ minor Broadcasting & Film
  (University of Iowa, Iowa City)
• Phi Eta Sigma
• Phi Beta Kappa
• M.A.:    Cultural Anthropology (University of Iowa, Iowa City)
• M.A.:    Social Anthropology (University of California, Davis)
• J.D. :    (Hamline University, St. Paul, Minnesota)