About me
Stephanie Baez is the Director of Pro Bono for the ABA Commission on Immigration. In her role, Stephanie leads the Commission in its national pro bono work in supoprt of the Commission's mission of ensuring fair treatment and full due process rights for immigratns, asylum-seekers, and refugees within the United States. She develops and implements creative models to increase pro bono representation in immigration cases.
Stephanie began her legal career as a litigation associate in the New York office of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson, LLP where she was selected to spend one year as the Fried Frank Fellow to Her Justice, Inc., a nonprofit in New York that provides family law and immigration assistance to low-income women. After her fellowship, Stephanie was honored by Her Justice with the John Geiger Award for Commitment to Justice. Stephanie next served as a judicial clerk in the United States District Court, Southern District of New York. Following her clerkship, Stephanie moved to San Diego where she worked as a Supervising Attorney at the San Diego Volunteer Lawyer Program, before joining the Commission on Immigration team. Stephanie obtained her undergraduate degree from the University of Southern California, and received her Juris Doctorate from Fordham University School of Law, where she graduated Magna Cum Laude.
