This summer, I had the pleasure to intern for Project Libertad. Project Libertad is a non-profit organization that empowers newcomer immigrant youth and their families by providing essential, youth-led, and youth-centered legal and social services.

This summer, support from Equal Justice America allowed me to pursue a legal services fellowship with East Bay Community Law Center’s housing unit, defending low-income tenants from eviction in Alameda County.

This summer, I had the opportunity to work with these unaccompanied minors at the National Immigrant Justice Center’s Immigrant Children Protection. Prior to this summer, I already had a strong interest in immigration law.

This past summer I spent my time at Prisoners’ Legal Services of Massachusetts (PLS), which is the only organization of its kind in the entire state. It offers a central office for incarcerated people to contact and seek help for various civil legal issues that involves their incarceration experience.