Lynn Marcus is Co-Director of 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. She has also taught refugee law at the U of A since 2000. 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 the Asylum Program of Southern Arizona now Immigrant Survivors Legal Assistance) and she served as chair of that program’s advisory committee through 2016. Since then, she has chaired the Asylum Services Committee, overseeing screening and referral of cases to lawyers and managing a fund 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-helpamphlets 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.