Associate Professor of Law at the University of St. Thomas. I co-direct the Interprofessional Center for Counseling and Legal Services (IPC). At the IPC, I direct the immigration law practice group, supervising students who assist people seeking asylum and other forms of legal status in the U.S. I have over twenty years of experience in immigration law practice and procedure.
I am also an active participant in the efforts to curb the use of landmines and cluster bombs in armed conflicts. As a consultant to the Mennonite Central Committee, I have attended United Nations conferences on landmines and conventional weapons, and have addressed diplomats on international humanitarian law matters for over a decade. Along with other activists and academics, I helped to found the Cluster Munitions Coalition, which plays a leading role in the cluster bomb ban movement.
I have worked to figure out how to be a practical pacifist when the laws and structures just seem too big to change and my own talents and faith seem too small.