Margaret Stock

Margaret Stock

Stock in 2013
Born 1962
Nationality American
Occupation lawyer
Known for Military Accessions Vital to the National Interest

Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Margaret Stock (born 1962) is an immigration attorney based in Anchorage, Alaska. She is the winner of MacArthur Fellows Program in 2013.[1] She has served in the US Army Reserve, and has taught law at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New York.

Education

Stock graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1985 (A.B., with honors in Government); Harvard Law School in 1992[2] (J.D., with honors); Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2001(M.P.A.); and U.S. Army War College in 2006 (Masters of Strategic Studies).[3]

Career

Stock led the development of three programs helping immigration issues within the US military. The Military accessions vital to national interest (MAVNI) program, started in 2008, in cooperation with the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, helped the U.S. armed forces to attract and retain foreign nationals with language, medical, and other skills critical to military readiness and national security.[1] She spearheaded the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) MAP program, "which pairs volunteer attorneys across the United States" with military families in need of their services.[1] She also helped start the naturalization at Basic Combat Training program.[4][5][6]

Stock has also spent many years teaching. From 2001-2010 she worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, first in the Department of Law, then in the Department of Social Sciences. She also taught at University of Alaska Anchorage in the political science department for two years. [7]

Stock testified regularly before Congress on issues involving immigration and national security.[3][4][5] She has also been quoted in many articles about immigration and national security for a broad range of publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. [8][9][10][11]

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References

  1. 1 2 3 "Margaret Stock". Meet the class of 2013. John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. 25 September 2013. Retrieved 21 September 2014.
  2. ↑ "Margaret Stock ; Anchorage Immigration Lawyer". Lawyer.com. Retrieved November 24, 2015.
  3. ↑ "Margaret D. Stock". The Federalist Society. Retrieved 20 December 2014.
  4. ↑ Stock, Margaret (June 28, 2011). "“Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2011”" (PDF). US Senate. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  5. ↑ "Immigration Need of America's Fighting Men and Women" (PDF). US Government Printing Office. 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  6. ↑ Stock, Margaret (May 28, 2011). "Immigration Problems of US Military Members, Veterans, & Their Families" (PDF). US Senate. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  7. ↑ "Margaret D. Stock". Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, LLC. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  8. ↑ Stock, Margaret (June 28, 2011). "“Development, Relief, and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM) Act of 2011”" (PDF). US Senate. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  9. ↑ "Immigration Need of America's Fighting Men and Women" (PDF). US Government Printing Office. 2008. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  10. ↑ Stock, Margaret (May 28, 2011). "Immigration Problems of US Military Members, Veterans, & Their Families" (PDF). US Senate. Retrieved December 20, 2011.
  11. ↑ "Margaret D. Stock". Cascadia Cross Border Law Group, LLC. Retrieved 8 July 2015.

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