STANFORD LAWYER — Growing up in El Paso, Texas, with Mexican immigrants on her father’s side and an Irish-Italian American mother whose family had been stationed at Fort Bliss by the U.S. military, Jennifer Chacón (BA ’94) started asking herself big questions about national identity and immigration: “Why is it that I’m the beneficiary of what seems to be a lottery ticket in the form of U.S. citizenship and other people aren’t? What is the role of these armed agents who police this border space?” says Chacón, the Bruce Tyson Mitchell Professor of Law at Stanford Law School.