Amanda Maya (she/her) is a Senior Immigration Attorney at the Kids in Need of Defense non-profit organization, and she is dedicated to advocating and amplifying the voices of immigrants. Prior to KIND, Amanda was a Removal Defense Attorney at the Jewish Family & Community Services East Bay (JFCS East Bay) non-profit organization and worked in partnership with Stand Together Contra Costa. During her tenure at JFCS East Bay, she provided trauma-informed legal representation to families in removal proceedings and those appearing before the San Francisco Asylum office. In addition, Amanda was a litigation associate at Orrick, Herrington, & Sutcliffe LLP where she worked on several civil rights matters to redress social issues in her community, including representing claimants in a Federal Tort Claims Act case that challenged President Trump’s family separation policy and filing a petition for review in the Ninth Circuit that challenged the position that a subsequent notice of hearing cured a defective notice to appear triggering the stop-time rule. Amanda graduated with Honors from Cornell University with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial and Labor Relations. After she graduated from Cornell, she then enrolled and graduated from Berkeley Law where she received the Berkeley Law Public Interest and Social Justice Certificate along with Pro Bono Honors. While in law school, she was the Co-Chairperson of the Board of Advocates, a member of the Mock Trial Team, and on the board of La Raza Law Student Association.