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Jump into the world where criminal and immigration law intersect — commonly referred to as “crimmigration.”
Caitlin Guilford joined the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility as an Assistant Director in April 2022. Caitlin previously worked as a Supervising Attorney in the housing and consumer units at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services (SMRLS) in the St. Paul Office. Before that, she practiced as a Consumer Litigator specializing in foreclosure litigation at Drewes Law, PLLC. Caitlin received her JD from Georgie Washington University Law School and her BA from Cornell University.
Alan Goldfarb joined the Office of Lawyers Professional Responsibility as Senior Assistant Director on January 31, 2024. Before joining the OLPR, Alan worked as an Immigration Attorney in private practice for more than 25 years. Alan served as Chair of the Ethics and Professionalism Committee of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Chair of AILA’s Minnesota-Dakotas Chapter, and Chair of the Immigration Law Section of the Minnesota Bar Association.
Alan earned his JD from the University of Minnesota and his BA from Columbia University.
Alicia Granse is a Staff Attorney at the ACLU of Minnesota (ACLU-MN), where she facilitates the Criminal Legal Reform and Police Surveillance issue team. Her work focuses on dismantling Minnesota’s system of mass incarceration, addressing racial disparities in the criminal legal system, advocating for alternatives in community safety, and ensuring police transparency and accountability.
Before joining ACLU-MN, Granse worked as a Hennepin County Public Defender. At ACLU-MN, Granse has litigated cases relating to book bans in schools, obesrver and protester rights, unlawful detention, and excessive force; has drafted numerous amicus briefs across various legal areas; and serves as a public voice for the organization’s work through media appearances and testimony.
Bruce Nestor is a Criminal Defense, Immigration and Civil Rights Attorney in Minneapolis, MN. Bruce is the past President of the National Lawyers Guild (2000-2003), a national bar association of progressive attorneys, law students, and legal workers, founded in 1937 as the first racially integrated bar association in the United States. He is a past President of the Minnesota Chapter of the National Lawyers Guild, a member of the National Immigration Project of the National Lawyers Guild, and a member of the Minnesota Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. His community work and political organizing focuses on immigrant rights, criminal justice reform, and racial justice.
He has also traveled to Nicaragua, Cuba, Palestine, Arizona, Haiti, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, and Egypt as a member of human rights delegations. He was counsel in State v. Reynua, 807 N.W.2d 473 (Minn. App. 2011)(reversing conviction on grounds that federal I-9 form is not admissible in state prosecution) and Campos v. State, 816 N.W.2d 480 (Minn. 2012)(non-retroactivity of Padilla v. Kentucky). He has successfully obtained post-conviction relief in dozens of cases in Minnesota and regularly consults with criminal defense attorneys regarding the immigration consequences of criminal convictions.