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Pronouns: she/her
Anne engages in strategic litigation on a range of asylum issues and provides technical assistance and training to other attorneys representing asylum seekers.
Anne first joined CGRS as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. Before assuming her Staff Attorney role, Anne clerked for the Honorable Gerard E. Lynch of the Second Circuit. Prior to law school, Anne worked for Lutheran Immigration and Refugee Service’s policy advocacy office, covering issues related to unaccompanied children, immigration detention, and refugee and asylum law.
Languages: Spanish
Education
University of Minnesota School of Social Work, M.S.W.
University of Minnesota Law School, J.D., magna cum laude
Student Director, Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic
Articles Submission Editor, University of Minnesota Law Review
St. Olaf College, B.A. in Social Work, magna cum laude
Admitted to practice law in California and Minnesota
Selected Publications and Commentary
- “Deploring the Violence, Abandoning the Victim,” with Karen Musalo and Mark Hetfield, Feb. 17, 2022
- “Litigation Update: Blocking Expulsions of Refugee Children,” Dec. 18, 2020
- “Between Reparations and Repair: Assessing the Work of the ICC Trust Fund for Victims Under Its Assistance Mandate,” with Fionnuala Ní Aoláin, Winter 2019