Lisiann Rodriguez is a senior attorney with the National Immigrant Justice Center's (NIJC’s) in-house asylum team and leads NIJC’s Recent Arrivals Project. She works closely with other NIJC projects, Chicago legal service organizations, the city, and the state to ensure legal services are best tailored to the ever-changing needs of our new neighbors.

Lisiann holds a J.D. from University of Illinois at Chicago Law School and a B.A. in Medical Humanities from Baylor University. While in law school, she cultivated a passion for human rights legal work in her experiences as an intern at the Cook County Public Defender’s Post Convictions office, a clinician at the UIC Law School Human Rights Clinic, and a law clerk at an immigration firm in Florida. Lisiann is licensed to practice law in Illinois.