John Keller, Executive Director and Supervising Attorney, assumed the role of director in 2005. Prior to that he was a staff attorney at ILCM from 1998 to 2004. Mr. Keller graduated Cum Laude from Hamline School of Law in 1996 and received his B.A. in Latin American Studies and Spanish from the University of Minnesota in 1992. After law school, Mr. Keller served as a Judicial Law Clerk at the Minnesota Court of Appeals (1997-1998). He has also served as an Adjunct Professor at University of Minnesota Immigration Clinic from 2004-06, and as Vice Chair of MN State Bar Immigration Chapter. Mr. Keller was named by Minnesota Lawyer Attorney of the Year 2007, and received the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits 2007 Advocacy Award on behalf of ILCM for work he lead in response to immigration raids in 2006.

Lenore Millibergity, Senior Staff Attorney, graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 1986. In June 1987, she began working for Oficina Legal, which later became the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, first as a staff attorney and then as supervising attorney. She handles all areas of immigration law, but specializes in family petitions, citizenship, asylum, deportation defense, and aid for battered immigrant women. In 2005 she received Centro Legal's Advocate for Justice Award for her service to the Latino community. She is an adjunct professor at William Mitchell College of Law.

Sheila Stuhlman, Senior Staff Attorney, graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2000. She began her career by working as a clerk for Honorable Judge Gary L. Crippen at the Minnesota Court of Appeals. Following her clerkship, she worked as an associate at the Minneapolis law firm of Miller-O'Brien, where she specialized in the areas of plaintiff's employment discrimination and union-side labor law. She began working at the ILCM in May of 2003. She has volunteered for many other local non-profits, including the Center for Victims of Torture, Resource Center of the Americas, and Minnesota Advocates for Human Rights' Refugee and Immigrant Program. She participated in Minnesota Advocates' fact-finding mission to Peru to study the Truth and Reconciliation Commission in November 2002.

Susan Jorgensen Flores, Staff Attorney, has been employed at ILCM since August 2006. She graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2001. From 2001-2006 she was employed at Centro Legal, where her final position was Immigration Unit Supervising Attorney. Prior to her law certification, Susan clerked at ILCM. As Student Attorney and Co-Student Director of the University of Minnesota Immigrant Law Clinic, she aided immigrant clients and represented asylum applicants before the immigration service and court. Through the Southern MN Regional Legal Services in 2002, she helped prepare government benefits cases for low-income clients and helped clients find housing through Project Hope.

Cynthia Anderson, Accredited Representative, graduated from the University of Minnesota in 1987 with a degree in Spanish and minors in French and Japanese. After four years as a Language Instructor and Curriculum Developer, she worked for Migrant Legal Services for two seasons doing a variety of legal casework as a paralegal. From 1991 - 1999 she was ILCM's Accredited Representative in immigration matters, and returned to this position in 2006 after six years as the Naturalization Project Manager at Centro Legal. She regularly provides naturalization training to private attorneys and at William Mitchell and Hamline Immigration Law Clinics.

Ana Lisa Peña, Staff Attorney, joined ILCM in November 2007. She completed her undergraduate education at the University of Texas at Austin and graduated from William Mitchell College of Law in 2005, where she was a 2005 Upper Midwest Human Rights Fellow. Ana Lisa began her career as a staff attorney with Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services' Refugee, Immigrant and Migrant Services program, where she handled VAWA, U-visa and family law cases in an effort to increase access to Legal Services in immigrant and refugee communities in southern Minnesota.

Melissa Pfeiffer, Operations Director, has worked with nonprofits for over 15 years in the areas of auditing, finance, development and human resources. She has served a wide variety of organizations including the American Bar Association and the Fund for Justice and Education in Chicago; labor unions, farmworkers' clinics, and Women, Infant and Children's Clinics in the Pacific Northwest; and the Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation at Indiana University. Locally, she has held management roles in social justice organizations including the Urban Coalition, Centro Legal, and the Resource Center of the Americas. Melissa became interested in social justice issues and immigration early on in her rural hometown where her father ran a health clinic serving the seasonal farmworkers who labored in the surrounding tomato fields.

Tammy Villegas, Office Manager, graduated from the College of St. Benedict's in 1987 with a degree in social work. She came to ILCM from the Dodge Nature Preschool where she spent her time educating children about the wonders of the natural world. She has spent over 15 years working with nonprofits in the areas of community organizing and outreach. She spent significant time in California working in nonprofits including La Clinica San Pedro in South Central LA, the LA Catholic Worker, and the headquarters and field offices of the United Farm Workers throughout California. Tammy joined ILCM in June 2008 and is excited to continue in a role that helps provide a voice to all people.

Marissa Hill-Dongre, Education Coordinator , joined ILCM in August 2009. She completed her undergraduate studies with majors in Spanish and Sociology from the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and later graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School in 2006. Marissa worked at Centro Legal for three and a half years, first as a Minnesota Justice Foundation clerk and later as an attorney, focusing on family based petitions, citizenship and aid for battered immigrant women and immigrant victims of crimes. Marissa taught English language learners in an elementary school in Madison, Wisconsin, and has volunteered as an English instructor with CLUES.

Kathleen (Kathy) Klos, Staff Attorney, is a graduate of St. Norbert College, where she studied Sociology and Spanish and a 2007 cum laude graduate of the University of St. Thomas School of Law. Kathy was awarded the John R. Roach Fellowship for pursuit of a career in public interest and in received the UST Living the Mission Award. Prior to becoming an attorney, Kathy worked as an immigration counselor for Catholic Charities of the Diocese of Green Bay, WI. Kathy began her legal career as a staff attorney at Centro Legal, Inc. in St. Paul, MN. She began working for Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota in May 2009 as a project attorney and now works in the full time satellite office in Worthington, MN.

Kathleen Lohmar Exel, Development Associate, came to ILCM in October 2009 after three years as a staff attorney and one year as a visiting faculty member in the Univ. of St. Thomas Legal Services Clinic, Immigration Law Practice Group. At UST, where she also earned her J.D., she supervised law students handling asylum and detained immigrant cases, handled a variety of complex immigration cases, and taught a variety of classes. She currently volunteers as a consulting attorney for the Advocates for Human Rights. Kathleen graduated from Carleton College in 2000 and began working in development at Twin Cities Habitat for Humanity. She returns to development work drawing on additional skills learned from her volunteer work on the board of directors of the Westonka District Foundation and her experience with the "Leaders Improving the Non-profit Community" program.

Marian Hassan, Paralegal, has been in the nonprofit sector her entire career: educating, serving and advocating for individuals in transition. As an educator, she advises and mentors around issues in diversity, language, early childhood education, family education, and program development and evaluation. Marian earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from York University in Canada in English Literature and Mass Communication in 1997 and completed a K-8 teacher licensure with specialty in language arts at St. Thomas University in 2002 in addition to doing graduate work in Elementary education.
At ILCM she provides direct client representation, outreach and education, with a focus on refugee communities. She is also an accomplished author of bilingual children books.

Pajjar Thao Yang, Legal Assistant, graduated from Bethel University in 2003 with a Business Marketing degree and from William Mitchell College of Law in 2010. While at William Mitchell, she interned for MN Center Against Violence and Abuse, Center for Negotiation and Social Justice, and the Erickson Mediation Institute, and was also involved in Asian Pacific American Law Students Association, International Law Students Association, MN Women Lawyers, and MN Justice Foundation. Pajjar began her career at ILCM working with refugees to obtain permanent residency and citizenship at Neighborhood House in St. Paul, MN.

Micaela Schuneman, AmeriCorps*VISTA Attorney and Pro Bono Coordinator, joined ILCM in August 2009. She graduated from the University of Iowa College of Law in May 2009. Her Note, Seven Years of Bad Luck: How the Government's Delay in Issuing U-Visa Regulations Further Victimized Immigrant Crime Victims , was published in The Journal of Gender, Race & Justice, Vol. 12, Issue 2. While in law school, Micaela was a Research Assistant in the Clinical Law Programs where she represented immigrant clients in a variety of matters including asylum applications, removal defense, and VAWA relief.

Terin Mayer, AmeriCorps*VISTA Volunteer Coordinator, graduated from Carleton College in 2008 with a degree in Philosophy. Terin spent 10 years of his childhood abroad in Bolivia, Spain, and Chile and has thus nurtured a life-long interest in issues of national identity. In his VISTA service, he is privileged to support ILCM's important work with a specific focus on volunteer coordination and communications development.

John Cooney, AmeriCorps*VISTA Development Associate, graduated from Carleton College in 2009 with a degree in History. John has experience with Minnesota's immigration landscape, working at the Minnesota Historical Society during the summer of 2008 to identify Latino communities and leaders in rural Minnesota. He will work to help raise funds to meet the continued need for ILCM's services.