Kimberly Medina ’20

Kimberly Medina '20 is an immigration litigation and advocacy fellow in the Federal Immigration Litigation Clinic. Prior to joining Minnesota Law, she was a Practitioner-in-Residence at Seton Hall University School of Law, where she represented indigent New Jerseyans in removal proceedings through the state-funded Detention and Deportation Defense Initiative. At Seton Hall, Medina's practice focused on providing representation to detained individuals caught at the intersection of criminal and immigration law.

Medina earned her B.A. from the University of South Carolina and her J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she was a student attorney and student director at the Detainee Rights Clinic. Kimberly is proudly the daughter of immigrants and a first-generation student of higher education.