Program Assistant
Joined CAIR Coalition as a Program Assistant for the Detained Children’s Program in October 2019. Before working at CAIR Coalition was doing a paid internship at SOAR! Support Our aging religious! Doing administrative work for about 5 months. Yessenia also interned at CAIR Coalition in the spring of 2019 for 5 months in which she did administrative work.
Holds a B.A. in International Affairs and a minor in Language and Cultural Studies from Trinity Washington University. She was very involved at her university: worked as Peer Advisor for 3 years, Reunion student worker for 2 years, and was Vice-President of the commuter student council. She also went to an alternative spring break community service trip to Selma, Alabama. She participated in Washington Model Organization of the American States 2019 and represented Honduras with some Trinity sisters. She is Salvadoran-American and looks forward to advocating for her community and those who are in need of legal service
