I entered the UCLA School of Law with the goal of practicing immigration law. During law school, I served on the Journal of International Law and Foreign Affairs; I was granted an Equal Justice America Fellowship to work with Bet Tzedek -The House of Justice; I prosecuted criminal cases as a Certified Law Student for the Los Angeles County District Attorney’s Office; I was a Summer Law Intern with the Organized Crime Strike Force at the U.S. Attorney’s Office in Las Vegas, Nevada; and I was employed by the Institute for Civil Justice at the RAND Corporation.

Upon my graduation from law school, I was selected for the Attorney General’s Honors Program at the U.S. Department of Justice where I served at the Immigration and Naturalization Service (“INS”) in Los Angeles for five years: from 1999 through 2004. In this position, I litigated a variety of cases before the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals and I assisted the U.S. Attorney’s office with immigration cases before the Federal District Court.

Since joining the private sector in 2004, I have represented employers and individuals in a wide range of immigrant and non-immigrant matters and have handled numerous complex immigration matters involving deportation and exclusion, waivers, citizenship, criminal convictions, asylum and the
preparation of petitions and applications for aliens of extraordinary ability in the arts, entertainment
and sciences.

I graduated summa cum laude from the University of California at San Diego where I majored in Literatures in English with an emphasis on Spanish and Latin American Literature. I studied Mexican Literature and History at the Academia Hispana Americana in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico. I am a member of the California Bar and the American Immigration Lawyer’s Association. I am authorized to practice law before all immigration courts throughout the United States, the Board of Immigration Appeals, the Supreme Court of California, and the United States Courts of Appeals for the 9th and 10th circuits.