She received her J.D. from the University of Southern California, Gould School of Law and her B.A. from UC Santa Barbara. While attending USC she was involved with the Latino Law Student Association and a copy editor for the Southern California Review of Law and Social Justice. Socorro has worked and interned at the Los Angeles Legal Aid Foundation’s Immigration Unit, the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Immigration Law Project, and USC’s Immigration Clinic providing direct legal services, including U Visa, VAWA, asylum, withholding of removal, and Convention Against Torture relief. Email Socorro at socorro@icwclaw.org.