She spent a year traveling Latin America while studying Spanish, and met countless people suffering the push and pull factors of migration due to the human rights abuses under recent dictatorships, as well as economic factors.
Carol recognized the strength in their struggles and the heroism of their journeys. She came back inspired to work to ease the passage of immigrants seeking to build a life for themselves and their families in the United States.
She spent a year traveling Latin America while studying Spanish, and met countless people suffering the push and pull factors of migration due to the human rights abuses under recent dictatorships, as well as economic factors.
Carol recognized the strength in their struggles and the heroism of their journeys. She came back inspired to work to ease the passage of immigrants seeking to build a life for themselves and their families in the United States.
As an attorney, she immediately began working to serve immigrant communities all over the United States.
Carol first worked with the underserved immigrant population on Chicago’s southwest side as a Staff Attorney and then Director of the Immigration Program at Chicago Legal Clinic, Inc.
She then moved to the Washington, D.C. area and worked with two non-profit organizations there. She served as Acting Director and Staff Attorney for LIRS, a national refugee resettlement agency, and as Coordinator of the Board of Immigration Appeals Pro Bono Project at the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, Inc.
Throughout her 20 years of experience representing families seeking protection from various forms of persecution, Carol has often been involved in litigation before the Immigration Courts and the Board of Immigration Appeals, including cases of individuals detained by the Department of Homeland Security.
Carol’s work in private practice has allowed her to create meaningful relationships with clients, including those who came to the U.S. from Mexico and Central America in recent years as unaccompanied youth. She finds it heartening to watch these young people getting their green cards, finishing high school, and going off to college.
When a woman once tried to hand Carol her baby at the southern border, she came face-to-face with the utter desperation of a mother trying to give her child a better life.
Now a parent herself, Carol identifies with this urgency, and uses that emotional connection with her clients’ stories to fight relentlessly for their life in the U.S.
Carol is an outdoor and nature enthusiast. She spends much of her free time gardening, running, skiing, and spending time with her children and their dog. She is also fluent in Spanish and enjoys taking part in book clubs to broaden her horizons.
Experiences with her clients – and the stories of what they have been through – are inspiring and humbling.
But when an outcome in a case strikes Carol as truly unfair or inhumane, she believes there is always another avenue to pursue to fight for her clients.
She knows the drastic nature of the situations they are often leaving behind, and is prepared to do everything in her power to help them achieve their status and build a new life here in the United States.
But when an outcome in a case strikes Carol as truly unfair or inhumane, she believes there is always another avenue to pursue to fight for her clients.
She knows the drastic nature of the situations they are often leaving behind, and is prepared to do everything in her power to help them achieve their status and build a new life here in the United States.
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