I am an immigration attorney with extensive experience in a wide variety of immigration matters and have successfully defended clients before the San Francisco Immigration Court, U.S. Citizenship & Naturalization Services, Administrative Appeals Office, Board of Immigration Appeals, the United States District Court of Northern California, and the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. At the Ninth Circuit, I argued successfully for an asylum applicant found not credible due to return trips that occurred prior to the applicant's final decision to flee. Subedi Sharma v. Lynch, No. 13-71501, 2016 U.S. LEXIS 6294 (9th Cir. Apr. 6, 2016).
I graduated from New York University School of Law and am a licensed a member of the California State Bar. I have a bachelor's degree in Rhetoric from the University of California, Berkeley, with a minor in Ethnic Studies. I have been a committed advocate for immigrants' rights since 2006, when I was an undergraduate student at UC Berkeley. Throughout my undergraduate and law school years, I devoted as much of my free time as possible to volunteering at numerous non-profits committed to helping immigrants seek legal aid. At NYU School of Law, I was a member of the well-regarded Immigrant Rights Clinic. Prior to starting my own law practice in June 2016, I represented hundreds of clients at two well regarded immigration law firms in the San Francisco Bay Area.
I am the daughter of South American immigrants, a native Spanish-speaker, and in my spare time I enjoy theater, painting, photography, and bird-watching.
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