Katherine Buckel is the supervising attorney of The Legal Aid Society's pro se immigration clinics, where she assists clients with limited scope representation in affirmative and defensive postures. Prior to this role, she worked in detained removal defense with Legal Aid for ten years as a supervising attorney and a staff attorney, representing clients before the Immigration Courts in New York and New Jersey, the Board of Immigration Appeals, New York Family Courts, and Federal District Court. Prior to joining Legal Aid in 2014, she clerked for the Honorable A. Kathleen Tomlinson of the Eastern District of New York and worked in private practice at Latham & Watkins. She graduated from cum laude from the Georgetown University Law Center in 2010 with a Certificate in Refugees and Humanitarian Emergencies. During law school, she participated in the Center for Applied Legal Studies asylum clinic; served as the Vice President of the Human Rights Action student group; studied and volunteered abroad in Quito, Ecuador and Cairo, Egypt; and was a member of the Georgetown Immigration Law Journal. Prior to law school, she served as a Peace Corps volunteer for three years in Haiti and the Dominican Republic. She obtained her B.A. from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, graduating with highest honors.