Ms. Sandoval received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law in 2005, and her B.A. from Washington University in 2002 in English Literature/Spanish Language. She has practiced immigration law since 2005. In addition to practicing law and writing, Ms. Sandoval enjoys riding motorcycles, knitting for her eight nieces and nephews, and traveling to Mexico, where she visits relatives and bears witness to important indigenous social and cultural movements, particularly the Zapatista movement in the southernmost state of Chiapas. She is the youngest daughter in a first-generation Mexican-American family of nine children, an experience that inspires both her writing and her advocacy on behalf of immigrant families and individuals.