Krsna Avila
Krsna is based in San Francisco, California, and joins Cornell Law School’s Path2Papers with a wealth of personal and professional immigration experience. Krsna immigrated from Mexico to the United States as a child.
Prior to joining Path2Papers, Krsna worked at the Immigrant Legal Resource Center as an attorney focused on DACA advocacy and implementation, among other issues relating to noncitizens. Krsna also worked as the legal services manager at Immigrants Rising where he provided legal support to undocumented youth throughout the country.
At Cornell Law School, Krsna worked at the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Washington, DC, and the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California. He also participated in the Asylum and Convention Against Torture Appellate Clinic at Cornell Law School, where he helped represent clients before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Krsna also volunteered with the European Council on Refugees and was an editorial member for the Cornell Legal Information Institute U.S. Supreme Court Bulletin.
Krsna earned his undergraduate degree from the University of California–Davis; and his law degree from Cornell Law School where he received the 2017 Freeman Award for Civil-Human Rights for his commitment to civil rights and public service.
Camiel Becker
Camiel Becker is certified as a specialist in immigration law by the State Bar of California and has over twenty years of immigration law experience. He represents a number of companies and individuals in the employment-based green card and nonimmigrant visa processes. He has advised many immigrants with DACA, TPS, and humanitarian parole about the process for transitioning to employment-based green cards and non-immigrant visas. Camiel speaks regularly to lawyers across the country about employment-based visa options for DACA recipients.
Dan Berger
Dan Berger is a partner at Green & Spiegel, leading the firm’s Academic and Medical immigration team. With over 25 years of experience in immigration law, he is an academic fellow at Cornell Law School and an honorary fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Dan played a key role in President Biden’s waiver program for Dreamers, and is a legal adviser for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (bipartisan congressional caucus).
A frequent speaker and writer, his insights have been featured in major media outlets including the Atlantic and USA Today. He has authored works for the Brookings Institute and the American Council on Education. In addition to advising thedream.us, the largest private scholarship fund for Dreamers, Dan cofounded a DACA clinic at Cornell focused on employment-based options, path2papers.org.
Dan is dedicated to supporting DACA and undocumented students and has received the “President’s Commendation” from AILA for his exemplary service. Dan wrote an Issue Brief for the American Council on Education on preparing for the second Trump Administration, and is now on the Board of Directors of the Presidents’ Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Dan’s interest in immigration began at Harvard College, where he studied immigration history. He graduated from Cornell Law School.
Miguel Bocanegra
Miguel is from Seattle and has been practicing immigration law since 2004. Prior to joining Path2Papers, he had a diverse practice as a director at MacDonald Hoague and Bayless, representing individuals and companies in various stages of the immigrant and nonimmigrant process. He has experience with family-based petitions, removal defense, naturalization, as well as employment-based immigrant and nonimmigrant visas. He has taught as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Washington School of Law.
Katherine Gin
Katharine is an immigrant rights entrepreneur and founder of The Legalization Project, which mobilizes support for undocumented immigrants seeking permanent legal status in the United States. Katharine currently leads the Bay Area DACA Initiative, a $13-million initiative funded by Crankstart that aims to legalize at least 40% of the 20,000 DACA recipients in the Bay Area over the next four years. As part of that legalization effort, she serves as strategic advisor to Path2Papers.
While at Immigrants Rising, Katharine raised more than $40 million for the undocumented community, including $10 million that was reinvested as grants, stipends, and fellowships to undocumented individuals. She was the leader of a visionary team that created numerous initiatives, including the $14.4-million California Campus Catalyst Fund, which bolstered systemic support for undocumented students at 32 public colleges and universities throughout California; and the $7.41-million SEED Initiative, which supported more than 1,000 immigrant entrepreneurs in California.
Throughout her career, Katharine has worked to enhance career and education opportunities for low-income people of color. Her work with young people has been highlighted in numerous national media outlets including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Los Angeles Times, Pod Save America, PRI’s The World, and Fast Company.
Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer
Jakki Kelley-Widmer has worked with hundreds of DACA and undocumented clients since 2013, including through the Immigration Law and Advocacy Clinic she founded at Cornell Law School in 2020. Read more about Jakki and her legal team helping a DACA recipient reunite with her father as well as a DACA recipient study abroad.
In addition to work with undocumented communities, Jakki’s legal expertise and practice experience includes advocacy for detained individuals, asylum seekers, applicants for naturalization and special immigrant juvenile status, and survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence. At Cornell, she teaches and supervises law students to provide legal services. She regularly publishes both public-facing and scholarly articles on immigration law issues.
Previously, Jakki was an Equal Justice Works fellow at La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco, where she focused on representing immigrant youth and their families. She also taught legal writing at the University of California–Berkeley School of Law and clerked at the San Francisco Immigration Court through the Department of Justice Honors Program.
Jakki received her law degree in 2013 from the University of Michigan Law School, cum laude. While in law school, she worked at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley, California, and was a student attorney representing survivors of human trafficking. She received awards recognizing her work on behalf of women and the Latinx community.
Jakki is a member of the California Bar. She is fluent in Spanish.
Megan Kludt
Megan, a founding Path2Papers member, rejoined the team in April 2025 after serving as an appellate immigration judge at the Board of Immigration Appeals for six months. Prior to her appointment, she was a private immigration attorney in Massachusetts for 18 years, specializing in complex immigration cases in the areas of business, higher education, and scientific research. She is also an expert in humanitarian and family-based immigration with extensive experience representing clients at USCIS interviews and in the immigration courts. Megan is passionate about working with DACA holders, and was counseling Dreamers on employment-based immigration pathways as early as 2011.
Beyond her current work with Path2Papers, Megan provides assistance to different immigration law firms on a variety of issues, from employment-based cases to detention litigation.
Megan is a graduate of Boston University School of Law and Georgetown University School of Foreign Service, and has taught immigration law courses to law students at Western New England School of Law and to undergraduates at Tufts University. She has also guest-lectured and served on local and national panels on immigration law issues.
Lily Kurtz
Lily is a passionate defender of immigrant rights with significant experience in asylum and refugee services, particularly in securing protection and improving access for vulnerable LGBTQI+ individuals. At Rainbow Railroad, she was a crucial figure in assessing and facilitating pathways to safety for queer refugees globally, with a primary emphasis on Latin America. Prior to that, she served as the volunteer and intern coordinator and lead of LGBTQI+ programming at Al Otro Lado in Tijuana.
Lily is highly skilled in trauma-informed crisis response, having screened hundreds of LGBTQI+ migrants in Mexico to connect them with vital services. She also has significant experience in managing large-scale volunteer operations, both in-person and remotely, and in developing robust online programming for hundreds of undergraduate, graduate, and law student interns.
Lily graduated Summa Cum Laude from Southern Oregon University with degrees in anthropology, Spanish, and gender, sexuality, and women’s studies.
Raju Patel
Raju is based out of Atlanta and has been practicing immigration law since 2004. For 20 years, she worked for a boutique law firm representing individuals and companies in all aspects of immigration law. She has expertise in family-based and employment-based non-immigrant visas, immigrant visas, and green card applications. She has successfully represented private companies, universities, hospitals, researchers, and others. She also has experience filing mandamus lawsuits in federal court. Raju has made presentations on various immigration topics for both employers and employees along with CLE presentations to lawyers.
Steve Yale-Loehr
Steve Yale-Loehr is coauthor of Immigration Law and Procedure, the leading immigration law treatise, published by LexisNexis. He was professor of immigration law practice at Cornell Law School for many years, was a project attorney for the law school’s DACA Project, and is of counsel at Miller Mayer in Ithaca, NY. For many years he chaired or was a member of the business immigration committee for the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA). He currently is a member of AILA’s benefits litigation and asylum committees. He has testified many times before Congress and is frequently quoted in the media. He graduated from Cornell Law School in 1981 cum laude, where he was editor-in-chief of the Cornell International Law Journal. He received AILA’s Elmer Fried award for excellence in teaching in 2001, and AILA’s Edith Lowenstein award for excellence in the practice of immigration law in 2004.