Shannon Johnson represents asylum seekers detained in Eloy, AZ and Florence, AZ. She graduated from Boston College Law School. She is the asylum attorney and, after law school, she was a public service fellow in Worcester, MA, working with adolescent youth and young adults in their family law and immigration matters. Prior to law school, she worked as an advocate for domestic violence survivors at the Los Angeles Center for Law and Justice, in Los Angeles. She is trying to learn Brazilian Portuguese during her longer commutes to the Florence Office.
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