Michelle Garcia J.D. (she/her/ella) is the Deputy Director of New Mexico Legal Aid. She is a graduate of Loyola University who is admitted to the New Mexico Bar, the Navajo Nation Bar, the State Bar of Louisiana, the Pueblo of Pojoaque and the Federal District Court of New Mexico. After graduating from law school, Michelle worked as a prosecutor for the State of New Mexico and law clerk to the Chief Justice . After joining New Mexico Legal Aid in 2018 she became the managing attorney for Safe to Be You, New Mexico’s LGBTQ+ legal access program for rural and indigenous communities and in 2020 the manager of the regional offices in Northern New Mexico. She works in the area of civil rights, violence, rural accessibility and LGBTQ+ discrimination.