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Friday, March 19, 2004

Guest Speakers

MARIA ONTIVEROS is a Professor at the University of San Francisco (USF) Law Center where she focuses on labor law, employment discrimination and torts. Professor Ontiveros received her B.A. from UC Berkeley, her J.D. cum laude from Harvard, a M.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University, and her J.S.D. from Stanford Law School. She has published extensively in the areas of labor and employment law and critical race theory.
Prior to joining USF, Ms. Ontiveros was an associate attorney in the labor and employment group of Heller, Ehrman, White & McAuliffe, and the manager of the employment department of the Raychem Corporation. She has taught at Golden Gate University School of Law as well as Santa Clara University School of Law, Hastings College of Law, University of Michigan and Stanford Law Schools.

ISABEL MEDINA is a Professor at Loyola University New Orleans School of Law where she focuses on constitutional law, employment and gender discrimination, and immigration law. She received her B.A. from Monash University (Australia), M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of New Orleans, and her J.D. from Tulane University.

Professor Medina joined the Loyola Law School faculty after practicing law with Arnold & Porter in Washington, D.C. While in law school she was a managing editor of the Tulane Law Review. Upon her graduation from law school, she clerked for the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Louisiana.

JOHN GUENDELSBERGER is Senior Counsel to the Chairman of the Board of Immigration Appeals (BIA) and former member of the BIA. He received his J.D. from Ohio State University College of Law, his LL.M. and J.S.D. from Columbia University School of Law and a D.E.A. from the University of Paris (Pantheon-Sorbonne).

He has worked as a Staff Attorney with Ohio Legal Rights Service, a state agency advocating the rights of persons with mental or developmental disabilities. From 1980 to 1995, he was a Professor at Ohio Northern University College of Law where he specialized in immigration law, comparative law and international law.

Mr. Guendelsberger has written numerous articles in the area of immigration law and has represented aliens on a pro bono basis before Immigration Judges and the Board of Immigration Appeals. He is a member of the Ohio Bar.

LORY ROSENBERG is the Director of the Defending Immigrants Partnership at the National Legal Aid and Defender Association (NLADA), a joint initiative with the Immigrant Legal Resource Center, the Immigrant Defense Project of the New York State Defenders Association, and the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild. NLADA engages in education and advocacy on the immigration consequences of crime and provides training and legal back-up to criminal defense counsel representing immigrants and refugees.
Ms. Rosenberg is a featured columnist for Bender's Immigration Bulletin a writer for Matthew Bender (LexisNexis), and an adjunct professor at American University's Washington College of Law. From 1995-2002, she served as an appellate immigration judge on the United States Board of Immigration Appeals.

Moderator

T. ALEXANDER ALEINIKOFF is a Senior Associate at the Migration Policy Institute, working on refugee protection, international migration, citizenship, and domestic immigration policy. He is also Associate Dean and Professor of Law, with a focus on constitutional and immigration law, at Georgetown University Law Center. Previously, hw was a Senior Associate with the International Migration Policy Program at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. From 1994-1997, Professor Aleinikoff served as the General Counsel and then Executive Associate Commissioner for Programs of the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS).

Mr. Aleinikoff has published numerous articles in the areas of immigration, race, statutory interpretation, and constitutional law, and he is also the author of the principal text and casebooks on U.S. immigration.