Kara Lynum is an immigration attorney and the owner of Lynum Law Office. Kara focuses on family-based and humanitarian immigration. She volunteers with the Volunteer Lawyers Network Park Avenue Walk-In Clinic, the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota, made 4 trips to family detention centers to represent detained asylum seekers and volunteered with Al Otro Lado in Tijuana representing asylum seekers at the border – including being part of an 18-hour standoff with CBP at a port of entry to ensure asylum seekers had access to the United States. In She went to Juarez in Mexico to represent asylum seekers forced back into Mexico in the Migrant Protection Protocols (“Remain in Mexico”) program.
She was named a 2015 National Advocate of the Year by the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota and a 2015 Attorney of the Year by Minnesota Lawyer. She was also awarded the 2016 Access to Justice Award by the Minnesota Hispanic Bar Association. In 2017, she won the Pro Bono Champion Award from the Minnesota/Dakotas AILA chapter and a Special Recognition Award from The Advocates for Human Rights for her work on the MSP Rapid Response Team in the aftermath of President Trump’s Muslim Ban executive orders. She was named to the 2019 40 under 40 List by the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. She graduated from William Mitchell College of Law and the University of Minnesota.