Philip Berns, Esq.

Philip Berns received his undergraduate degree from Cornell.  He later received his law degree from Pace University.

Prior to law school, he was a Peace Corps volunteer in Ecuador and Haiti where he provided subsistence farmers the opportunity to learn aquaculture and worked with them to build and establish fishponds.  There he became fluent in both Spanish and Haitian-Creole – the second and third languages of Fairfield County, Connecticut.

Berns dedicates hundreds of hours a year to educating the immigrant communities as to the rights and obligations of immigrants and advocating and teaching immigrants to advocate themselves at the national, state and local levels for things like immigration reform, in-state tuition and drivers licenses, and fair treatment by local law enforcement.