Jenna Gilbert is Senior Director of Refugee Representation at Human Rights First, where she oversees Human Rights First’s pro bono legal representation program, which provides indigent asylum seekers with high quality legal representation in the New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. She previously served as the Managing Attorney of the Los Angeles office of Human Rights First, leading the Los Angeles team, overseeing the legal representation of indigent asylum seekers in the Los Angeles area, and training and mentoring pro bono volunteer lawyers. Prior to her role as Managing Attorney, Jenna was a Staff Attorney in both the New York and Los Angeles offices of Human Rights First. Before joining Human Rights First, Jenna was an associate attorney at an immigration law firm in Los Angeles, CA, where she managed a large caseload of defensive and affirmative immigration cases. Prior to that, Jenna received a public interest fellowship to work for Asylum Access Ecuador, where she provided legal services for refugees and led a prison advocacy project in an effort to ensure that detained migrants were guaranteed protection under the 1951 Refugee Convention and the 1967 Protocol. Jenna has a dual degree in international relations and Spanish language and literature from the University of San Diego. She received her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and is admitted to practice law in California. She is a frequent speaker on immigration-related topics affecting asylum seekers and is fluent in Spanish.

Nareeneh Sohbatian is Winston & Strawn LLP’s Pro Bono Counsel - Immigration. Ms. Sohbatian identifies needs and creates and implements procedures to address these needs in over 200 active immigration cases nationwide and oversees Pro Bono efforts in the California. She provides training, substantive supervision, and in-house mentorship to the firm’s attorneys in their pro bono immigration matters. She provides representation to clients in affirmative and defensive immigration cases, amici briefs, federal litigation, research, and special projects. Ms. Sohbatian is the Vice Chair of the American Immigration Law Association’s (AILA) National Pro Bono Committee, she is a Southern California AILA Pro Bono liaison, and a Commissioner of the American Bar Association’s Commission on Immigration. She has written and presented on pro bono and substantive immigration law. In 2019, Ms. Sohbatian was recognized as a National Law Review Immigration Trail Blazer. Before joining Winston & Strawn LLP in 2016, Ms. Sohbatian was the managing attorney at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, a non-profit law firm in Los Angeles, California. There, she developed a streamlining process to improve the management of hundreds of cases, trained and supervised attorneys and paralegals, and represented unaccompanied minors in immigration removal defense cases. From 2012 to 2020, Ms. Sohbatian was an adjunct at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she worked with the school’s Inter-American Human Rights Moot Court teams. Ms. Sohbatian was also a pro bono attorney with the school’s International Human Rights Clinic. Following law school, she was the second Dickran Tevrizian Fellow and subsequently a staff attorney at Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, where she managed health, public benefits, expungement, and employment cases in English, Spanish, and Armenian. Ms. Sohbatian received a B.A., cum laude, from University of California, Los Angeles in 2006, and a J.D. from Loyola Law School in 2011.

Stephanie Baez is the Director of Pro Bono for the ABA Commission on Immigration. In her role, Stephanie leads the Commission in its national pro bono work in supoprt of the Commission's mission of ensuring fair treatment and full due process rights for immigratns, asylum-seekers, and refugees within the United States. She develops and implements creative models to increase pro bono representation in immigration cases. Stephanie began her legal career as a litigation associate in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP where she was selected to spend one year as the Fried Frank Fellow to Her Justice, Inc., a nonprofit in New York that provides family law and immigration assistance to low-income women. After her fellowship, Stephanie was honored by Her Justice with the John Geiger Award for Commitment to Justice. Stephanie next served as a judicial clerk in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, Stephanie moved to San Diego where she worked as a Supervising Attorney at the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, before joining the Commission on Immigration team. Stephanie obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, and received her Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.