Prior to joining the Children's Project she was the lead staff attorney with NIJC's Counter-Trafficking project. Before joining NIJC, Rocío interned with the Legal Assistance Foundation of Metropolitan Chicago and the Inter-American Court of Human Rights in San José, Costa Rica. While a law student she participated in the Asylum and Immigration Law Clinic and was a Sullivan Human Rights Fellow for the International Human Rights Institute at DePaul University College of Law. She received her J.D. from DePaul University College of Law, and her B.A. from the University of Chicago.