Kathleen Rivas is the Supervising Attorney of the Survivors Team in Public Counsel’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. She represents immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, human trafficking, and other serious crimes in their immigration applications. Kathleen started at Public Counsel as a Justice Catalyst Fellow, working with immigrant survivors who had been victims of immigration fraud and engaging in advocacy to combat the issue of fraud in our immigrant communities. 

Before joining Public Counsel, she spent two years as a clinical law student in the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic. Kathleen has dedicated the past seven years to working with immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking. As a member of a large immigrant family, Kathleen is driven by a passion to uplift immigrant communities and to fight back against injustice.