Dan Berger

Dan Berger is a partner at Green & Spiegel, leading the firm's Academic and Medical immigration team. With over 25 years of experience in immigration law, he is an Academic Fellow at Cornell Law School and an Honorary Fellow of the American Academy of Adoption Attorneys. Dan played a key role in President Biden's waiver program for Dreamers, and is a legal adviser for the Congressional Coalition on Adoption (bipartisan congressional caucus).

A frequent speaker and writer, his insights have been featured in major media outlets including the Atlantic and USA Today. He has authored works for the Brookings Institute and the American Council on Education. In addition to advising thedream.us, the largest private scholarship fund for Dreamers, Dan co-founded a DACA clinic at Cornell focused on employment-based options, path2papers.org.

He is dedicated to supporting DACA and undocumented students and has received the "President’s Commendation" from AILA for his exemplary service. Dan wrote an Issue Brief for the American Council on Education on preparing for the second Trump Administration, and is now on the Board of Directors of the Presidents' Alliance on Higher Education and Immigration. Dan’s interest in immigration began at Harvard College, where he studied immigration history. He graduated from Cornell Law School.