Claudia is a Chicana with a passion for working with non-profits providing services to immigrants due to the experiences of her family members while she was growing up. Throughout law school, she has interned at Catholic Charities in NYC working on a variety of cases including SIJ, T-visa and U-visa cases, and in Buffalo, NY at Journeys End Refugee Services on different asylum cases. She will now be joining ABA’s ProBar Office in Harlingen, TX serving immigrants in the Rio Grande Valley border region and will focus on the needs of adults and unaccompanied children in federal custody.