Ana Pottratz Acosta is an Associate Professor of Law at Mitchell Hamline School of Law where she teaches the Health Law Clinic and oversees the Medical-Legal Partnership between the law school and United Family Medicine, a Federally Qualified Healthcare (FQHC) facility in St. Paul, MN. Immediately prior to joining the faculty at Mitchell Hamline, Ana was an attorney in the immigration law group at Stinson Leonard Street LLP 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. Additionally, from 2004 to 2010, Ana served as an immigration attorney for Lutheran Social Services of New York (LSSNY) Immigration Legal Services Program. While at LSSNY, Ana worked on a variety of projects representing low-income immigrant populations in New York City, including serving as the immigration advisor to the New York Interfaith Disaster Response (NYDIS) 9/11 Unmet Needs Roundtable, appearing as lead counsel in Rajah v. Mukasey, the lead case in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the legality of the NSEERS Special Registration Program and overseeing a weekly immigration clinic at the Haitian Family Support Center in the Flatbush neighborhood of Brooklyn following the January 2010 earthquake in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. Ana also served for two years, from 2008 to 2010, as supervisor of the LSSNY Refugee Resettlement Program, where she worked with LSSNY staff and volunteers to provide reception and placement services to newly resettled refugees. Ana earned her undergraduate degree at the University of Minnesota and her JD at Columbia Law School.