Alejandra Palacios
Staff Attorney
International Human Rights Clinic
Contact
Building & Room:
C1152
Address:
300 S. State Street, Chicago, Illinois 60604
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About
Alejandra Palacios is a Staff Attorney for the International Human Rights Clinic. In her position, she leads the Immigrant Justice Project and supervises law students in direct representation, brief legal services, and community-based advocacy.
Before joining the International Human Rights Clinic, she was a Staff Attorney at the National Immigrant Justice Center (NIJC) in Chicago, in the Children’s Protection Project. At NIJC, she provided direct representation and counseling to detained and non-detained unaccompanied immigrant children before U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services and the Chicago Immigration Court. Before working at NIJC, Alejandra was the Illinois Bar Foundation fellow with the International Human Rights Clinic where she worked on expanding the clinic’s asylum practice.
She holds a BA in Political Science and Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and a JD from UIC Law.