Cynthia is a Shareholder, Vice President, and Legal Team Manager at Trow & Rahal. She has practiced immigration and nationality law since 1996. She specializes in immigration for businesses, athletes, performing artists (individuals and groups), as well as family related matters.In the role of Vice President, Cynthia works with Trow & Rahal’s management to further the firm’s mission. As Legal Team Manager, she co-leads the training, mentoring, and guidance of the firm’s legal support staff and attorneys. Cynthia serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Women’s Bar Association of the District of Columbia (WBA), and was a co-chair/editor (2008-2015) of Raising the Bar, WBA's monthly newsletter. A long-time member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA), Cynthia volunteers for AILA’s Military Assistance Program and served as a panelist at AILA National Conferences. She is also an active member of the D.C. Chapter of the International Network of Boutique Law Firms (INBLF). Cynthia’s reputation within the legal community has led to the repeated selection by her peers for inclusion in prestigious publications including: The Best Lawyers in America, the International Who’s Who of Business Lawyers (Corporate Immigration) and Who’s Who Legal Corporate Immigration: 2015 to present. She has co-authored articles on family immigration matters, participated in the D.C. Bar Association’s Lunch With A Lawyer program for attorneys interested in pursuing immigration law and served as a panelist at the D.C. Bar Association seminar "What You Never Learned in Law School: The Mechanics of Running a Law Practice". She received her J.D. degree from Howard University School of Law and a Bachelor of Psychology degree from Yale University. She is a member of the District of Columbia and New York State Bar Associations.