KARLA MARI MCKANDERS 4019 Stillwood Drive, Knoxville, TN 37919 Day and Evening Phone: (248) 807-1909 SSN: 383-08-2004 kmckande@utk.edu ACADEMIC POSITIONS The University of Tennessee College of Law, Associate Professor of Law Knoxville, TN 2008-Present Honors: University of Tennessee, Chancellor s Honor, Jefferson Prize (Spring 2014); Knoxville Top 40 under 40 Award (January 2014); Recipient, UTK Outreach and Engagement Incentive Grant (Spring 2014); Bass, Berry Sims Award for Outstanding Service to the Bench and Bar (Spring 2013); and Gardener of Change Award from Community Shares of Knoxville, recognizing educator who fosters social justice and critical thinking among her students (Spring 2013). Courses: Immigration Clinic (2012-Present); Advocacy Clinic (2008-2011); Refugee Law and Policy (fall 2009). In immigration clinic, students handle immigration cases before immigration judges, asylum officers and the Board of Immigration Appeals. The students engage in bi-weekly seminar on substantive and procedural immigration law geared towards improving their written and oral advocacy skills. In the advocacy clinic, students represent indigent clients in criminal and civil matters. Responsibilities in the clinic include supervising cases, teaching seminar classes twice weekly, and helping to design course curriculum and student simulations. Supervise trials, oral arguments, preliminary hearings, administrative hearings, client interviews and settlement conferences. Edit and rewrite motions and appellate briefs. Provide intensive one-on-one instruction in all aspects of lawyering. Carry a substantial pro bono and clinic caseload when the students are not in session. In October 2010, travelled to Swaziland to start international program with Saving Orphans through Healthcare and Outreach to collaborate with legislatures, judges and non-profit organizations to create experiential learning projects for law students. University of Mohamed V-Souissi, Fulbright Lecturer Rabat, Morocco 2011-2012 Courses: Comparative International Refugee Law and Humanitarian International Law Taught humanitarian law seminar in French to students in International Masters Program focusing on the fundamentals of international humanitarian law with a focus on contemporary issues. Brought in speakers from UNHCR to speak with students. Collaborated with organization Droit et Justice to create a pro bono project to increase the capacity of attorneys to provide legal assistance to immigrants applying for Refugee Status Determinations. In fall 2011, conducted rotating seminars on international refugee law. Villanova University School of Law, Reuschlein Clinical Teaching Fellow Villanova, PA 2006-2008 Course: Clinic for Asylum, Refugee & Emigrant Services, Farmworker Legal Aid Clinic Recipient of teaching fellowship in a live, in-house Clinic for Asylum, Refugee and Emigrant Services, which handles asylum cases before immigration judges, asylum officers and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Co-teach a bi-weekly seminar on substantive and procedural asylum law and written and oral advocacy skills. Responsible for curriculum development, classroom instruction, supervising students, grading and client in-take for the Clinic. Supervised advanced clinical students in preparing appellate briefs before the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Third Circuit in asylum cases.
page 2 of 6 EDUCATION DUKE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LAW, Durham, NC Juris Doctor Pro Bono Service Award, Spring 2003 SPELMAN COLLEGE, Atlanta, GA Bachelor of Arts in Political Science with Minor in French Phi Beta Kappa, Magna Cum Laude, Academic Dean s Scholar, 1998-2000 May 2003 May 2000 LEGAL EXPERIENCE Hon. Damon Keith for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2005-2006 Detroit, MI Senior Law Clerk. Assisted with civil and criminal appellate docket. Prepared bench memoranda and assisted Judge in making decisions on motions, which involved extensive research on a myriad of complex legal issues. Drafted opinions for Court of Appeals cases for the Judge. Miller, Canfield, Paddock and Stone, PLC, 2003-2005 Detroit, MI Associate. Labor and Employment Practice Group. Represented employers in Fair Labor Standards Act, sexual and racial harassment, and age, race, weight, religious and disability discrimination cases; Provided consultation to employers for complying with state and federal anti-discrimination laws such as Family Medical Leave Act, Americans with Disabilities Act, and Title VII. BOOKS BRIDGE TO PRACTICE: Immigration Simulations, WESTSERIES (WORK-IN-PROGRESS). CO-AUTHORED, GLOBAL ISSUES IN IMMIGRATION LAW, Chapters on: France, Freedom of Movement & Living Conditions of Immigrants (Franklin A. Gevurt, Ed., Thomson-West Publishing summer 2013). PUBLICATIONS Immigrant Juveniles and the State Delinquency System, Univer. NC Law Rev. (forthcoming Spring 2015). Moroccan Feminist Spring, BOSTON UNIV. INTERN TL JOUR. (2013). Invited Symposium: Federalism, State Sovereignty and Immigrant s Rights, 3:2 WAKE FOREST J. LAW & POLICY 333 (2013). Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Acts: Exploring their Similarities, 61.4 Cath.L.Rev. 1 (fall 2012).! Reprinted in IMMIGRATION NATIONALITY LAW REV., (forthcoming fall 2013). Invited Symposium: Unforgiving of Those Who Trespass Against U.S.: State Laws Criminalizing Immigration Status, 12 Loy. J. Pub. Int. L 331 (Spring 2011).! Reprinted in IMMIGRATION NATIONALITY LAW REV., (forthcoming summer 2013). Invited Symposium: Unspoken Voice of Indigenous Women in Immigration Raids, 14 J. Gender Race & Just. 1 (fall 2010). Class Based Coalition Building During the Post-Racial Era, 29 St. Louis U. Pub. L. Rev. 473 (2010). Sustaining Tiered Personhood: Jim Crow and Anti-Immigrant Laws, 26 Harv. J. Rac. & Eth. Jus. 163 (2010). Invited Symposium: The Constitutionality of State and Local Laws Targeting Immigrants, 31.4 U.Ark. Little Rock L.J. 579 (2009).
page 3 of 6 Welcome to Hazleton! ( Illegal Immigrants Beware): Local Employment Immigration Ordinances and What the Federal Government Must Do About, It 39 Loy.U.CHI.L.J. 1 (2007). CO-AUTHORED PUBLICATIONS Co-Authored, Raquel Aldana (Pacific McGeorge School of Law), Beth Lyon (Villanova Univ. School of Law, and Karla McKanders, Raising the Bar: Law Schools and Legal Institutions Leading to Education Undocumented Lawyers, Arizona State L.J. (forthcoming 2012). Karla M. McKanders, Varying Shades of Grey: Teaching Amongst Generational Difference, 17.1 CLINICAL L. REV. 1001 (Fall 2010); Co-Authored Counterpart essays by Praveen Kosuri (Univ. Penn. Law School), Minna Kotkin (Brooklyn Law); Steven Reid (Northwestern School of Law), Dean Rivkin (Univ. Tenn. College of Law). Co-Authored, Raquel Aldana (Pacific McGeorge School of Law), Beth Lyon (Villanova Univ. School of Law, and Karla McKanders, Society of American Law Teachers, SALT Recommendations to the Administration for Immigration Agency Reforms, (June 16, 2009). SELECTED PRESENTATIONS Global Alliance for Justice Education, Legal Aid Clinic for Marginalized Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco, Virtual Presentation: Delhi, India, December 2013. Protecting the Rights of Immigrants in Criminal or Civil Proceedings, SE/SW POC Conference, Little Rock Arkansas April 2013. Human Rights Challenges for Sub-Saharan Migrants in Morocco, Disasters, Displacement and Human Rights Symposium, University of Tennessee, Anthropology Department, February 2013. Africana Studies Department Symposium, University of Tennessee, Academic Year in Morocco on the Fulbright, November 6, 2012. Center for the Study of Social Justice, University of Tennessee, The Anatomy of an Uprising: the Moroccan Feminist Spring, October 31, 2012. Diversity and Inclusion Week: Empowering and Celebrating Yourself and Others, Latino Issues in East Tennessee, University of Tennessee, College of Communication and Information, October 1, 2012. Annual Supreme Court Review for Faculty, Arizona v. United States, University of Tennessee College of Law, August 31, 2013. Diversity and Inclusion Week: Empowering and Celebrating Yourself and Others, Latino Issues in East Tennessee, University of Tennessee, College of Communication and Information, October 1, 2012. Annual Supreme Court Review, Arizona v. United States, University of Tennessee College of Law, August 2012. Fulbright Annual Conference, Moroccan Feminist Spring, Rabat, Morocco, April 2012. American Council for the Blind, Constitutionality of SB 1070, Phoenix, AZ, July 2010. Law and Society Conference, The Material Support Bar and Security Inadmissibility: Coordinating Analysis and Advocacy in the United States and Canada, Chicago, IL, May 2010. Immigration Professor s Conference, Fugitive Slave Act and State and Local Anti-Immigrant Laws, Chicago, IL May 2010.
page 4 of 6 Guest Lecturer, Immigration Law and Policy, Undocumented Immigration, Knoxville, TN, April 2010. Washington University Law, Fugitive Slave Act and State and Local Anti-Immigrant Laws, Faculty Workshop Series, St. Louis, MO, April 2010. University of Baltimore, Applied Feminism & Democracy, Women, Democracy and the Moroccan Feminist Spring, March 2012. Festival Emigration, Femmes & Migration, Trafficking of Nigerian Women, Agadir, Morocco, February 2012. Emerging Immigration Professor s Conference, Immigration Enforcement and the Fugitive Slave Act, American University, Washington, D.C., June 2011. American Association of Law Schools, Hot Topics Panel: Education Law, co-sponsored by Immigration Law, Enrolling Undocumented Students into the Legal Academy, San Francisco, CA, January 2011. Veritas Univ. of Tennessee, Let Justice Roll: Human Trafficking and Making Justice Matter, Knoxville, TN, September 2010. University of California Los Angeles College of Law, Critical Race Studies Symposium, Unbundling the Intersectional Discrimination of Latinos in the United States, Los Angeles, CA, March 2010. Invited Symposia: University of Iowa College of Law, 14 th Annual Symposium, Race, Gender, and Class at a CrossRoads: A Survey of their Intersection in Employment Economics and the Law, Human Capital and the Bottom Line: The Judge, the Whistle Blower, and the Immigrant Worker, Iowa City, IO February 2010. Latino Critical Race Theory Conference, Panelist for Latino Electoral Politics and Immigration: A Critical Assessment of the Obama Administration on Immigration Reform, Washington, D.C., October 2009. IMMIGRATION LAW TRAININGS The ABCs of Representing Unaccompanied Minor Children in Tennessee, Knoxville & Nashville, October 2014. Hunter Smith Davis, Pro Bono Lawyer Training, Johnson City, Tennessee, October 2013. Coffee County Sherriff s Department Immigration Law Training, June 2011. Legal Aid of East Tennessee, Immigration Consequences of Criminal Convictions in Tennessee: Analysis of Supreme Court Decision Padilla v. Kentucky, Knoxville, TN, October 2010. Immigration Training for Tennessee Child Welfare Workers, Basic Immigration Law, Nashville, TN, September 2010. Immigration Law Training, Representing Unaccompanied Children in Removal Proceedings, Basic Asylum Law, Nashville, TN, November 2009. East Tennessee Office of the Federal Defender. Criminal Justice Act ( CJA ) Panel Continuing Legal Education, Sixth Amendment or Not: Protecting Your Client from Deportation, Knoxville, TN, May 2009.
page 5 of 6 SERVICE TO PROFESSION Centro Hispano, Board, Knoxville, TN, Present. Tennessee State Bar, Access to Justice Committee, Present; American Association of Law Schools, Journal of Legal Education, Editorial Board, Present; Society of American Law Teachers, Board of Directors, Present; Co-Chair, Human Rights Committee, 2011-2012; Tennessee Alliance of Legal Services, Board Member, 2012-2013; United Way, Friends of Literacy, Board Member, Knoxville, TN, 2011-2013; Pepper Hamilton National Pre-Law Undergraduate Scholars Program, Immigration Law Class, June 2007,June 2008; Rosa Parks Scholarship Foundation, Board Member, 2005-2006; Michigan Wolverine Bar Association Summer Clerkship Committee, Co-Chair Elect, 2004-2006; Michigan State Bar, Pro Bono Justice Initiatives Committee, 2004-2005; Brown v. Board of Education Fifty Year Anniversary High School Teaching Initiative May 2004; American Bar Association Business Law Scholarship, Spring 2002; Street Law, High School Constitutional Law Teacher, Spring 2002; Georgia Mutual Assistance Association Consortium (Refugee Assistance Organization), 2000. SERVICE TO THE UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE COLLEGE OF LAW AND UNIVERSITY Truman Fellowship Committee, 2012-2013; Diversity Dialogues Faculty Advisory Board, 2012- Present: University Africana Studies Advisory Board, 2012-Present; University Chancellor Advisory Group, Commission for Blacks, 2012-2014; Co-Chair Commission, 2013-2014; University Fulbright-Hayes Application Review Committee, 2012-2013; Law School Community Committee, 2012-2013; Search Committee for Director of Clinical Program, 2010-2011; Law School Admissions Committee, 2009-2010; Kolwyck Committee for Summer Public Interests Grants, 2009-2011; Center for Study of Social Justice, Migration and Refugee Studies, Fellow, Present; Citizenship Day, Faculty Advisor/Volunteer Attorney, April 2010;
page 6 of 6 First Year Students, Faculty Advisor, Fall 2009- Present; Case Analysis & Briefing in the Introductory Period for First Year Students, Fall 2009; Bridge Refugee Know Your Rights Presentations, Faculty Advisor/Volunteer Attorney, Spring 2009; Member, Pro Bono Service Committee, 2008-2011; Immigration Law Society, Faculty Advisor, 2008-2009; Asian Law Student Association, Faculty Advisor, 2009-2011; Spanish Student Interpreter Program, Fall 2009. PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS State Bar of Tennessee, 2008, Present; State Bar of Pennsylvania (provisionally admitted as a Law Professor), 2007-2008; State Bar of Michigan, Present; U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Michigan, 2003-2006; U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit, 2005-2006; American Immigration Lawyers Association, Present; Association of American Law Schools, Present; Immigrant Children s Network, Present; Clinical Legal Education Association, Present; Board Member. LANGUAGES Proficient in French.