Sondra is a Deputy Program Director at the Young Center covering the New Jersey and Chicago offices. Sondra joined the Young Center in 2020 as a Staff Attorney in the D.C. office before becoming a National Staff Attorney in 2022. Prior to joining the Young Center, Sondra was a Staff Attorney at Rutgers Law School’s Immigrant Justice Clinic where she served as an immigration attorney for children in the New Jersey foster care system. Previously, Sondra established the immigrant legal services program at United African Organization, a Chicago community-based organization that serves African immigrants and refugees. Sondra earned a Master of International Human Rights Law and Humanitarian Law from Université Paris II and an LLM in International and Comparative Law from Chicago-Kent College of Law. Sondra is a native French and English speaker and is fluent in Spanish.