Latino Memphis Derechos is now accepting applications for interns. This opportunity is open to undergraduate and graduate law students. The internships are unpaid, but Latino Memphis is willing to assist the student in applying for externship/field placement credit and/or fellowships. All legal interns have the opportunity to work directly with clients.
Stacie A. Hammond
Stacie A. Hammond is the Senior Immigration Attorney of the Immigrant Rights Defense Center at Latino Memphis. She has been an attorney with Latino Memphis since September 2015. Stacie oversees the program’s representation of clients before the Memphis Immigration Court and before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. She represents clients in cases for Asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, Relative Petitions, Adjustment of Status, and Cancellation of Removal, as well as a variety of other cases.
Prior to joining Latino Memphis, Stacie served as the Attorney Advisor at the Memphis Immigration Court for two years. She is a graduate of Penn State’s Dickinson School of Law (2012) and The George Washington University (2007). She was admitted to the state bar of Pennsylvania in 2012. She spoke on a panel entitled “Digital Tools for Immigrant Integration” at the UnidosUS Annual Conference in 2018. In her free time, Stacie likes spending time with her husband Christopher and her son Benjamin and enjoys baking cookies and other sweet treats.