Angela Jimenez Pinto

Legal Assistant

Angela graduated from UC Berkeley with honors in May 2021 with a B.A. in Legal Studies and double minors in Global Poverty & Practice and Chicana/o Studies. While in college, Angela interned at the Supreme Court of the United States and Mil Mujeres Legal Services in Washington DC. She also interned with Berkeley Law’s Consumer Justice Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center in Berkeley and CARECEN in Los Angeles. Angela also conducted original research that looks at what sanctuary cities mean to undocumented and DACAmented Latinx living in California as part of her senior Honors Thesis. Angela is passionate about immigration law, police abolition, and gender equality. Specifically, within immigration law, she is interested in direct legal services work, the reunification process of unaccompanied children, asylum/refugee work, and 287g policy.

Angela was born and raised in California and she comes from an immigrant family background with roots in Honduras and Mexico. She is the oldest of four siblings with a thirteen-year age gap between her little sister and herself. Angela wants to attend law school in the next couple of years and hopes to become an immigration lawyer. In her free time, Angela enjoys exercising, hiking, and painting.

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