Ilana Greenstein
Education
Northeastern University School of Law, JD 1998
Bio
Ilana Etkin Greenstein is the deputy director and legal director at the PAIR Project in Boston, Massachusetts. Prior to joining PAIR, Ilana served as the senior managing attorney for the American Immigration Council’s Immigration Justice Campaign from 2017 to 2023. In that capacity she served as a national resource for attorneys engaged in pro bono removal defense (including release from detention, substantive relief, motions to reopen and related federal court litigation). Before joining the Campaign, Ilana spent close to 20 years in private practice in Boston. Her work covered all aspects of immigration law, with a particular focus on removal defense and appellate litigation. She appeared regularly before the nation’s federal courts, the Board of Immigration Appeals and the Immigration Courts.
Ilana has been an adjunct faculty member at Northeastern University School of Law since 2010. She holds a JD from Northeastern University School of Law and a BA in Spanish and international studies from Macalester College. She served on the board of directors of the Massachusetts chapter of the National Lawyers Guild (1996–2002 and 2009–2010), as well as on numerous AILA national and local committees, and is frequently called upon to mentor other practitioners, and to present at professional seminars and conferences.
