Before joining ICWC, she was an attorney at New Mexico Immigrant Law Center, where she created a satellite office assisting clients at a domestic violence shelter in Santa Fe, with U and T visas, VAWA, SIJS and asylum. She previously worked as an immigration attorney with Reinhardt Law Firm in Albuquerque, representing clients in family-based and humanitarian cases. Barbara is a 2012 cum laude graduate of the University of New Mexico Law School. Prior to law school she worked as public radio and newspaper reporter. In the 1980s she was as a legal assistant for nonprofit agencies assisting detained Central American asylum seekers in Harlingen and El Paso, Texas. Email Barbara at barbara@icwclaw.org.