Christina Villegas Email & Phone Number

New York, New York, United States

• Investigate and compile mitigation materials used in pre-arrest advocacy, bail applications, pre-trial advocacy, proffers and for sentencing; average annual caseload 15 to 20.
• Complete psychosocial reports and construct family trees; interview fact and mitigation witnesses.
• Provide advocacy and social services referrals and direct supports for 20+ incarcerated clients and those in the community-based observation.
• Request, obtain, review, analyze, identify… Show more
• Request, obtain, review, analyze, identify patterns, summarize and chronologize medical, mental health and other records for incriminating or exculpatory information.
• Aggregate extensive discovery documents including police records, statement transcriptions, video and audio evidence, phone records, social media, and forensic reports for pleadings, pre-sentencing, and expert witnesses.

New York, New York, United States

• Compile mitigation materials and provide written and oral advocacy in support of 50 to 60 clients represented in New York County Criminal Court.
• Evaluate and recommend treatment options, prison programs, social services referrals for cognitive, medical, and mental health needs, alternatives to incarceration/detention programs, substance use and rehabilitation.
• Provided intensive case management support including escorting clients… Show more
• Provided intensive case management support including escorting clients to court, treatment programs, medical appointments, government agencies, social services programs and other appointments as needed by clients.
• Supervised five MSW academic program interns. Show less

Bronx, New York, United States

• Manage an 8-person team providing frontline legal and administrative services for a holistic public defender office; average client caseload of 30.
• Conducted community intake for walk-in community members who have legal issues related but not limited to housing evictions, reentry, public benefits, property retrieval from NYPD, immigration, police misconduct.
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• Screen and process first time food stamps (SNAP) and Medicaid applications. Show less

Bronx, New York, United States

• Collaborated with a team of 15 lawyers, one investigator, and one parent advocate.
• Facilitated contact between 15 attorneys each with 40 to 50 incarcerated and community-monitored clients.
• Obtained records from criminal and family court in Bronx County.

Florence, Arizona, United States

• Provided pro se assistance to 1,500 respondents detained for deportation proceedings in four facilities.
• Conducted daily intakes and workshops on forms of relief from deportation and how to seek release from detention. Supervised interns and volunteers, and coordinated community outreach.
• Provided intensive case support including immigration applications, research, documentation gathering, translation, testimony preparation and release planning to previously incarcerated… Show more
• Provided intensive case support including immigration applications, research, documentation gathering, translation, testimony preparation and release planning to previously incarcerated, indigent, mentally ill.

Bronx, New York, United States

• Conducted 800+ civil legal services intakes, and provided direct representation in public benefits and NYCHA administrative hearings.
• Prepared clients to represent themselves in civil forfeiture proceedings.
• Assisted individuals in filing Notices of Claim with Comptroller’s Office to initiate police misconduct lawsuits.

Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa

Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States

Masters Of Social Work

Bachelor Of Arts, History