Anabel Martinez
Loyola Law School, Sunita-Jain Anti-Trafficking Initiative
Policy Associate
Anabel Martinez (she/her/hers/ella) is currently a Policy Associate with the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Policy Initiative at Loyola Law School where she helps to develops local, state, and national anti-trafficking policy strategies, that promote survivor informed and evidence-based public health and community-based alternatives to dominant carceral approach to human trafficking which often re-traumatizes survivors, especially survivors with their own criminality. Previously, Anabel worked as an attorney with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, where she provided legal services to low-income immigrant community members of the Los Angeles County area. In the past, Anabel worked as a Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney for the Legal Advocacy Project for Survivors at the Los Angeles LGBT Center where she provided trauma informed, client-centered, and affirming holistic legal services to LGBTQI+ survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, hate violence, stalking, and other crimes. Anabel also worked as an attorney at the Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc, where she represented parents in juvenile dependency proceedings. Anabel earned her Juris Doctorate with a concentration in Public Interest Law from Loyola Law School and received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.