Bart Gordon Fellow

J.D. (cum laude), Roger Williams University School of Law (2008)
B.A., Portuguese (summa cum laude), University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth (2003)

Nina Sá joined LACCM in August 2008 as a Bart J. Gordon Fellow. Her work will focus on immigration issues, both individual and systemic, as well as outreach to underserved communities in southern Worcester County.

While at Roger Williams, she was a member of the Honors Program, participated in the Pro Bono Collaborative, developing and presenting educational workshops in the areas of immigration, housing and benefits law to low-income parents and worked on the Racial Justice Task Force Immigration Law Project, presenting legal rights workshops to immigration detainees housed at the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Center in Central Falls, Rhode Island. In her last semester at law school, Nina was a student attorney in the Roger Williams University Criminal Defense Clinic, representing clients in the Rhode Island District Court. She has recently completed internships at Catholic Social Services of Fall River’s Immigration Law, Education and Advocacy Project and the International Institute of Rhode Island where she prepared asylum applications, VAWA self-petitions for battered immigrants, and assisted attorneys in representing clients in removal proceedings.

Nina is fluent in Portuguese and conversant in Spanish.  Nina is licensed to practice in Massachusetts and Rhode Island.