LAUREN WYATT
Lauren Wyatt is a managing attorney with Catholic Charities Community Services, Archdiocese of New York, where she provides direct representation to immigrants before the Immigration Court, Board of Immigration Appeals, USCIS, and New York family courts. As the Lead Project Attorney for the Immigration Court Helpdesk and Family Group Legal Orientation Program, she coordinates pro se application assistance workshops, Know-Your-Rights presentations, legal screenings, and pro bono case placements for unrepresented immigrants in removal proceedings. She plans and oversees the implementation of specialized ICH/FGLOP programming in response to emergencies and changes in law and policy. She manages and oversees the Haitian Response Initiative, which provides legal screenings to newly arrived Haitians in New York City. She recruits and trains volunteers to provide free legal information and assistance to low-income immigrants. She also supervises Catholic Charities attorneys in their caseloads, and mentors external pro bono volunteer attorneys in representing clients before the Immigration Court.
Prior to joining Catholic Charities, Lauren was a Program Associate at the Vera Institute of Justice administering the Legal Orientation Program for detained immigrants. Before moving to New York City, Lauren was an Equal Justice Works AmeriCorps Fellow at Catholic Charities Archdiocese of Washington. At Catholic Charities DC, she represented unaccompanied children in immigration and state court proceedings, as well as before USCIS. She also trained and mentored pro bono attorneys to represent clients in immigration and family court cases.
Lauren is licensed to practice in New York and Maryland, as well as before the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of New York. She earned her J.D. from Howard University School of Law in 2014, and her B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010. She has studied in Seville, Spain, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Havana, Cuba. She is fluent in Spanish and conversational in Italian.
