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Valeria Gomez, an expert in immigration and asylum law, joined the UBalt Law faculty in 2022. She directs the University of Baltimore School of Law’s Immigrant Rights Clinic and Immigrant Justice Clinic and also teaches Immigration Law. Gomez regularly speaks on issues related to asylum and immigration law and clinical teaching.

Gomez’s scholarship currently focuses on the intersection of immigration law, gender, sexual orientation, and reproductive justice, and on the effect of geography and space in the implementation and consequences of immigration law and policy. Her scholarship is informed by her experience as a practicing immigration attorney, her past experiences as a public interest attorney in under-served legal regions and her experiences as a Mexican-American woman.

Prior to joining the law school faculty, Gomez was a Clinical Teaching Fellow and a Visiting Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Connecticut School of Law and a Clinical Lecturer at the University of Tennessee School of Law. Her practice experience includes representing immigrant children in removal proceedings at Volunteer Immigrant Defense Advocates (VIDA), a nonprofit legal services organization that she co-founded in Knoxville, Tennessee, and practicing employment law in Nashville, Tennessee.

Gomez is admitted to the Tennessee and Maryland bars and is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She also serves as a member of the American Bar Association Commission on Immigration and as a board member for the Clinical Legal Education Association. She is fluent in Spanish.