Her work focuses on the rights of people in immigrant and Muslim communities and detained and incarcerated people. Before returning to the ACLU in March 2017, Kristin clerked for the Honorable Martha Vázquez of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Mexico. She also worked with the ACLU as a Border Civil Rights Fellow, the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights as a staff attorney, and Centro de los Derechos del Migrante, Inc. as a Skadden Fellow and a policy attorney. Kristin is a 2006 honors graduate of the University of Chicago and a 2009 graduate of the University of Chicago Law School.