Vanessa Pineda is the Director of Public Interest at the ASU Sandra Day O'Connor College of Law. Prior to joining ASU Law, she dedicated over ten years of her legal career to working in the public interest sector. She held positions at Arizona non-profits ranging from Instituto, the ACLU of Arizona, the Young Center for Immigrant Children’s Rights, and the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project. Vanessa began her career as an Associate Attorney at Tapia-Ruano & Gunn, P.C., in Chicago, Illinois, where she practiced removal defense and family-based immigration law.
Vanessa obtained her Juris Doctor from the DePaul University College of Law, and her bachelor’s degrees in History and Political Science from Arizona State University. She is licensed to practice law in Illinois and Arizona.