Louica Alexandre
Louica is a Staff Attorney for The Advocates for Human Rights' Refugee & Immigrant Program and the Immigration Legal Hub collaborative. In that capacity, she supports pro bono attorneys, creates pro se materials, oversees community outreach, assists other staff working to expand access to immigration legal help, and represents clients in humanitarian immigration matters.
Louica recently graduated from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she concentrated in immigration law and served as a certified student attorney in the Detainee Rights Clinic. She also served as the President of the Black Law Student Association, Moot Court Director for the Midwest Black Law Student Association, and a teaching assistant for various professors. During her last two years of law school, Louica clerked with the Hennepin County Public Defender’s Office and Mid-Minnesota Legal Aid, where she assisted clients with affirmative and defensive asylum & withholding of removal applications, and waivers of inadmissibility, restitution defense and research and writing briefs for criminal court.
Before attending law school, Louica graduated cum laude from the University of Florida. After graduation, she volunteered with the National Commission of Human Rights in Mali. As an immigrant from Haiti, Louica is excited to serve other immigrants and make sure they are given the help they need.