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Ana Pottratz Acosta joined Mitchell Hamline in 2016 as clinical instructor teaching the Health Law Clinic and overseeing the Medical-Legal Partnership between the law school and United Family Medicine, a Federally Qualified Healthcare (FQHC) facility in St. Paul. Ana practiced at Stinson Leonard Street as an attorney in the immigration law group where she represented clients in employment-based immigration matters and supervised non-immigration attorneys on pro bono immigration matters for clients of the Deinard Clinic, the firm’s pro bono program providing legal services to patients of the University of Minnesota Community University Health Care Center.

From 2004 to 2010, Ana served as an immigration attorney for the Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY) Immigration Legal Services Program where she provided direct legal services to low-income immigrant populations in New York City. As part of her work with LSSNY, Ana also served as lead attorney in the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System (NSEERS) Special Registration Project where she represented men from Muslim majority countries placed in removal proceedings after complying with the NSEERS Special Registration Program. Her work with the NSEERS Special Registration Project included litigating a legal and constitutional challenge to the NSEERS program before the 2nd Circuit Court of Appeals in Rajah v. Mukasey. Ana served as supervisor of the LSSNY Refugee Resettlement Program from 2008 to 2010, where she worked with LSSNY staff and volunteers to provide reception and placement services to refugees newly resettled in New York City. Ana is a 2004 graduate of Columbia Law School and a 2001 graduate of the University of Minnesota.

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J.D., Columbia Law School
B.A. summa cum laude, University of Minnesota

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Mitchell Hamline School of Law: associate professor, 2021–; assistant teaching professor, 2016–21

Stinson Leonard Street: staff attorney, 2013–16

Aronson & Associates: associate attorney, 2011–13

Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY), Immigration Legal Services Program: supervising attorney, 2004–10; supervisor of refugee resettlement program, 2008–10

Arab American Family Support Center, New York: staff attorney, 2005–06

Leadership, service and awards

International Institute of Minnesota (IIMN) Olga Zolti Award, 2020

Ramsey County Public Health Award, 2018

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Minnesota-Dakotas Chapter, chapter chair, 2020–21

American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Minnesota-Dakotas Chapter, advocacy chair, 2017–

Minnesota State Bar Association (MSBA), Immigration Law Section, officer, 2015–19

City of New York Bar Association—Immigration and Nationality Section, secretary, 2009–10

Lawyers for Good Government (L4GG)—Project Corazon, volunteer attorney

Advocates for Human Rights, volunteer attorney

Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, volunteer attorney

Bar admission

New York, 2005

Minnesota, 2011

U.S. District Court, Minnesota, 2018

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