Ms. Hernandez earned her J.D. degree in May 2007 from Vanderbilt University Law School, and is licensed to practice law in Tennessee. She earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Environmental Studies from Oberlin College in Oberlin, Ohio. Her focus of work at the law firm includes humanitarian cases, such as deportation, U visas, waivers, and TPS. She also focuses on all other aspects of immigration, including employment- and family-based cases, especially with our Spanish-speaking clients. A Nashville native, Ms. Hernandez studied abroad in Costa Rica, and is fluent in Spanish.
Ms. Hernandez became an immigrant advocate after college as an AmeriCorps*VISTA volunteer at the Political Asylum Project of Austin, where she worked to recruit, train and support community members volunteering for ther clinic, and also gave human rights presentations to immigration detainees. During law school, she earned the Scholastic Award in Immigration Law and Policy, was an associate editor on the Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment Law and Practice, and received a Public Interest Service Award.