Mark is an immigration attorney who has been helping families and businesses with their immigration challenges since 1995. He has spoken in immigration law issues before the Federal Bar Association, the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the California State Bar, The Tennessee State Bar and the Tennessee Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. He first became interested in U.S.-Latin American relations early on, growing up in southern California where there is a large Latino population. He studied Spanish all through elementary and high school, and in college worked with Professor Wayne Cornelius in the Political Science Department at University of California, San Diego and was an assistant on his San Diego County migration research project.