Lynn Marcus directs the Immigration Law Clinic at the University of Arizona Rogers College of Law, which (Clinic) she launched in 1996.  In that capacity, she supervises students providing advice on immigration options and representing immigrants seeking asylum, visas for certain victims of crimes or human trafficking, self-petitions under the Violence Against Women Act, and other benefits.  In the Spring, she directs the Community Immigration Law Placement Clinic, in which she coordinates and supervises in-house asylum intake interviews as well as student externships with private and non-profit immigration law offices. From 2000 to 2022, she also taught refugee law at the U of A. Professor Marcus’ legal advocacy includes successful representation of petitioners and amicus curiae in three precedent decisions at the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals relating to the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She was also the lead author of a successful petition to change the rules of criminal procedure in Arizona to require judges accepting guilty pleas to advise criminal defendants that their convictions could have immigration consequences. In 2002, she helped found what is now the Asylum Program of Arizona, and she has served as the president of the board of directors of the program for many years. In that capacity, she oversees screening and referral of cases to lawyers and helps raise funds for legal services to indigent asylum seekers.  Before joining the faculty at the U of A, Professor Marcus worked for nearly every non-profit organization in Southern Arizona that provides legal services to immigrants, raising grant money to monitor conditions at immigration detention facilities, writing and distributing self-help pamphlets for immigrants in deportation proceedings, and engaging in civil litigation aimed at improving conditions and accountability at detention centers.  Professor Marcus graduated from NYU Law School in 1989.