Julie Lantrip is a professor of government and pre-law advisor at Tarrant County College, Northwest in Fort Worth. Lantrip earned her Ph.D. in government from Georgetown University and her J.D. at Harvard Law School. Prior to teaching, Lantrip practiced immigration and international human rights law, clerked for the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San Jose, Costa Rica, and helped found the Opening Doors Immigration Clinic in Denton, Texas. In 2014 she was awarded the Tarrant County College Chancellor’s Award for Exemplary Teaching.

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