She currently serves as the Immigration Staff Attorney at the AIDS Legal Referral Panel, a public interest law organization in San Francisco. Ms. Montano primarily works to protect the rights of clients seeking political asylum, in the United States, based on their fear of persecution for being gay and HIV+. Ms. Montano attended the University of California, Hastings College of Law during which she focused on the representation of the underserved. Ms. Montano worked with several human rights based non-profit organizations before starting law school. Ms. Montano’s current project is to establish pro bono legal services for low-income LGBT persons that are struggling with discrimination and persecution in Central America.