I’m a native New Yorker, which is where my path to becoming an immigration attorney began. In high school, my friends and I suddenly found ourselves arbitrarily and unjustly divided: those who could get driver’s licenses and apply for college aid, and those could not because of their immigration status. Around that time, talk of President Obama’s plan for Dreamers inspired me to rethink what was possible with the right amount of advocacy and hope. Since then, I have dedicated my career to immigrant rights.

In college I began working with refugees, asylum seekers, crime victims, and survivors of intimate partner and gender-based violence. After moving to Austin in 2013 as an AmeriCorps member at Casa Marianella, I fell in love with this community and the resilience of the people I served. Since then, I’ve worked and volunteered in shelters, detention centers, and legal clinics, always focused on helping immigrants and families find safety and stability.

I returned to New York in 2017 to attend the CUNY School of Law where I earned several awards and scholarships for social justice work. I trained classmates and led a delegation of law students and professors to volunteer in family detention centers and worked in the Immigrant and Noncitizens Rights Clinic as a student attorney.

In 2020, I came back to Austin to continue this work as an immigration attorney. I’ve handled dozens of individual hearings and bond hearings in San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, El Paso, Laredo, Hutto, and Pearsall, as well as appeals before the Board of Immigration Appeals. Today, I focus on deportation defense, asylum, and appeals.