Jenna Gilbert is pro bono immigration counsel, based in Morrison Foerster’s Los Angeles office. Jenna is responsible for managing and expanding the firm’s pro bono immigration practice, mentoring attorneys in the effective representation of clients seeking asylum and other forms of humanitarian immigration relief. Working with the rest of the pro bono team, Jenna develops creative approaches to serving immigrant communities in need in concert with legal services and community organizations.

Jenna joined MoFo from Human Rights First, where she most recently served as senior director of refugee representation. In that capacity, Jenna oversaw the pro bono program, providing indigent asylum seekers with high-quality legal representation in the New York, Washington, D.C., and Los Angeles metropolitan areas. She was previously managing attorney of the organization’s Los Angeles office and a staff attorney in its New York and Los Angeles offices.

Earlier in her career, Jenna was an associate in an immigration law firm, where she represented individuals in removal proceedings as well as in affirmative applications at all levels of the immigration system, from asylum office interviews to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. Prior to that, Jenna spent a year as a public interest fellow with Asylum Access Ecuador, where she provided legal services for refugees and led an advocacy project to ensure that detained migrants received the legal protections to which they were entitled.

Jenna is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a frequent speaker on immigration-related topics affecting asylum seekers and is fluent in Spanish.