Lieutenant Colonel Margaret Stock is an immigration attorney based in Anchorage, Alaska.
Education
Stock graduated from Harvard and Radcliffe Colleges in 1985 (Bachelor of Arts, with honors in Government). Harvard Law School in 1992 (Juris Doctor, with honors). Harvard Kennedy School of Government in 2001(Master of Public Administration).
And United States. Army War College in 2006 (Masters of Strategic Studies).
Career
She is running for United States Senate as an Independent candidate in the 2016 Senate Election in Alaska. Stock is a 2013 recipient of the MacArthur "Genius" Award. She has served in the United States Army Reserve, and has taught law at the United States Military Academy in West Point, New New York
Stock led the development of three programs helping immigration issues within the United States military.
The Military accessions vital to national interest (MAVNI) program, started in 2008, in cooperation with the Department of Defense and Department of Homeland Security, helped the United States. armed forces to attract and retain foreign nationals with language, medical, and other skills critical to military readiness and national security. She spearheaded the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Map program, "which pairs volunteer attorneys across the United States" with military families in need of their services.
She also helped start the naturalization at Basic Combat Training program Stock has also spent many years teaching.
From 2001-2010 she worked as a professor at the United States Military Academy at West Point, first in the Department of Law, then in the Department of Social Sciences.
She also taught at University of Alaska Anchorage in the political science department for two years. Stock has testified regularly before Congress on issues involving immigration and national security. She has also been quoted in many articles about immigration and national security for a broad range of publications, including The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.