She is also an attorney with the Legal Aid Justice Center, where for the past two years she has focused on the management of the Virginia Special Immigrant Juvenile Project, an award-winning collaboration between LAJC and pro bono attorneys across the state. The project has saved more than 150 refugee children from likely deportation. She currently supervises students in the Immigration Law Clinic, which LAJC runs in conjunction with the Law School. Cruz earned her B.A. from Temple University and her J.D. from the Drexel University Thomas R. Kline School of Law.