Paul Grussendorf

Paul Grussendorf is a lawyer specializing in asylum and refugee law. His first legal job was with the Central American Refugee Center in Washington, DC, and then he directed the immigration law clinic at George Washington University Law School for a decade, before being selected to be an immigration law judge. He served as a judge in Philadelphia and San Francisco a total of seven years. He served as Legal Protection Officer with UN Refugee Agency in South Korea in 2005. He joined the U.S. government's Refugee Affairs Division in 2006, working in Africa, Asia and Cuba to process refugees for resettlement to the United States. He currently works as a legal consultant to several international refugee agencies and as a consultant to other immigration lawyers acting as appellate counsel. He has taught immigration and refugee law at George Washington University Law School, University of San Francisco Law School, and Howard University School of Law.

He loves most kinds of music and he plays jazz country blues guitar.