Liz’s practice focuses on advancing human rights in the United States legal system. She focuses on trauma-informed, cross-cultural representation of vulnerable people, and her practice has included zealous representation of death-sentenced prisoners, immigrant children, and immigrants with disabilities locked up by ICE.
Prior Experience
The Door’s Legal Services Center
New York, NY, 2015 – 2017
Staff Attorney
Capital Appeals Project
New Orleans, LA, 2013 – 2014
Fellowship attorney
Legal Aid Society, Immigration Law Unit
New York, NY, 2013
Hays Fellow Law Intern
ACLU Racial Justice Program
New York, NY, 2012 – 2013
Hays Fellow Law Intern
Orleans Public Defenders
New Orleans, LA, 2012
Law Clerk
Equal Justice and Capital Defender Clinic, Equal Justice Initiative
Montgomery, AL, 2012
Student Advocate
Office of the Appellate Defender
New York, NY
Legal Intern, 2011; 2011 – 2012; Student Advocate, 2013
Fulbright Scholar
Madrid, Spain, 2009 – 2010
Human Rights First
New York, NY, 2007-2009
Program Associate, Human Rights Defenders Program
Education
J.D. New York University School of Law, 2013, magna cum laude, Arthur Garfield Hays Civil Liberties Fellow
B.A. Yale University, New Haven, CT, awarded 2006, cum laude
Selected Presentations
Guest Lecturer, Loyola Law School, Immigration Law and Practice, Fall 2020
Speaker, Litigation Meeting of the National Lawyers Guild National Immigration Project, Fall 2019
Speaker, Chicagoland Immigration and Disability Summit, Fall 2019
State Bar Licenses
New York
Louisiana