'Navigating a Flawed System'
Ohio Wesleyan Alumna to Explore 'What to Do About Immigration' at Oct. 28-29 Events
DELAWARE, Ohio – Award-winning immigration lawyer Dana Bucin will present "What to do about immigration? An Immigration Attorney's Take on Navigating a Flawed System," when she lectures and participates in a panel discussion at Ohio Wesleyan University.
A 2002 OWU graduate, Bucin will lecture at 7 p.m. Oct. 28 in the Benes Rooms in Hamilton-Williams Campus Center, 40 Rowland Ave., and participate in the panel discussion at noon Oct. 29 in Room 301 of Merrick Hall, 65 S. Sandusky St., Delaware.
Bucin is a partner at Harris Beach Murtha, a 250+ attorney law firm with offices in Connecticut, Massachusetts, New York, New Jersey, and the District of Columbia. She has represented thousands of immigrants from nations such as Ukraine and Afghanistan, working to accept refugees as well as students on F-1 visa programs. Bucin's participation in both Ohio Wesleyan events involves general, non-fact-specific questions on Immigration laws and policies, and cannot constitute legal advice.
She also is the Honorary Consul of Romania to Connecticut, a diplomatic appointment that enables her to facilitate cross-border educational, business, medical, legal, military, and cultural exchanges. Bucin frequently speaks with media on immigration matters in English, Spanish, and Romanian, and she has been quoted by publications such as Bloomberg Businessweek.
In addition to her business immigration focus, Bucin handles a variety of cases to assist immigrants and refugees with humanitarian legal needs and to advocate for immigrants' rights at the state and federal levels.
Bucin will be joined in the Oct. 29 panel discussion by experts including Ohio Wesleyan's Veda Kim, Ph.D., assistant professor of Sociology & Anthropology, and Robert Gitter, Ph.D., professor emeritus of Economics & Business.
Bucin attended Ohio Wesleyan on an F-1 student visa and earned her Bachelor of Arts degree with summa cum laude honors. She majored in International Business, Politics & Government, and Romance Languages & Literatures (self-declared), and also completed a minor in International Studies and a summer fellowship in Venezuela. She earned her Juris Doctor degree with a concentration in International Law from Boston University School of Law.
Both Bucin's lecture and panel discussion encompass OWU's 2025-2026 Benjamin F. Marsh Lecture on Public Affairs; Butler A. Jones Lecture on Race and Society; and Robert Kragalott Lecture on Genocide, Mass Atrocity, and Human Rights. Admission is free. The events are sponsored by the departments of History; Politics & Government; Sociology & Anthropology; and Africana, Gender, & Identity Studies. Learn more at owu.edu/history, owu.edu/politics, owu.edu/SOAN, and owu.edu/AGIS.
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