Jaclyn Kelley-Widmer founded and directs Cornell’s 1L Immigration Law & Advocacy Clinic (ILAC). She teaches advanced Immigration Clinic, first-year Lawyering, and seminars on migration law. As the Faculty Director of Path2Papers, a pro bono project affiliated with ILAC, she helps DACA recipients pursue pathways to work visas and lawful permanent residency. Her legal expertise focuses on immigration law, particularly asylum law and Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA). Her practical experience includes representing clients in cases involving parole, naturalization, and special immigrant juvenile status for survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence. At Cornell, she leads students in providing legal services and delivering legal information presentations to the immigrant community both locally and nationally. She engages law students in advocacy often in immigration detention centers across New York, Louisiana, and Texas. Kelley-Widmer is also a regular contributor to scholarly and public conversations on immigration law. Her scholarship emphasizes themes of clinical pedagogy and the intersection of immigration with administrative and criminal law. Her work has appeared in several journals including the Brooklyn Law Review and the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Previously, she was an Equal Justice Works fellow at La Raza Centro Legal in San Francisco, focusing on representing immigrant youth and families.