Kevin Sarabia

Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic

Kevin Sarabia, Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic

Kevin Sarabia’s commitment to the immigrant community was evident from the start, when he flourished in his immigrants’ rights advocacy work as a first-year clinical law student and, later, as an advanced student at LIJC. He has represented unaccompanied children, asylum seekers, victims of crimes, naturalization candidates, and individuals in removal proceedings. Kevin has a keen ability to grasp difficult legal concepts, remain flexible in needing to pivot to accommodate client and community needs, and to humanize the law to meet his clients at a personal level. Kevin has also stood out as a student leader at LIJC. As a first-year clinical student, he traveled with LIJC to Guadalajara to provide legal rights education to migrants residing in shelters and advocated for the rights of unaccompanied children before different Mexican governmental agencies. Kevin’s professionalism and knowledge enabled him to successfully traverse between working with clients to advocating before adverse officials. Kevin also helped reinitiate LIJC’s border work in Tijuana in collaboration with our Jesuit sister school, IBERO-Tijuana. As part of this effort, Kevin collaborated with his classmates to develop necessary educational materials informed by the immigrant-community needs in Tijuana and provided legal consultations at immigrant shelters abroad. Seeing Kevin naturally flourish in all the work he completed, confirmed his inevitable success in helping the immigrant community as a future attorney.