Theresa Cardinal Brown

Theresa Cardinal Brown’s career spans three decades in bipartisan federal immigration law and policy including law firms, government service, policy advocacy, and consulting. She has worked at the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and U.S. Customs and Border Protection, as well as senior advisory positions within the Department of Homeland Security under both the Bush and Obama administrations. 

She is an Immigration Fellow at the George W. Bush Institute and the National Immigration Forum, is a leader of the Council on National Security and Immigration, and a Nonresident Immigration Fellow at Cornell Law School. From 2014 to 2025, she was a Director and Senior Advisor for immigration at the Bipartisan Policy Center think tank in Washington, DC. She is President and founder of the consultancy Cardinal North Strategies, LLC.

Ms. Brown is widely quoted in the news media and was Executive Producer and principal voice for 200 episodes of the This Week in Immigration podcast for the Bipartisan Policy Center.