Natalie Maust

Natalie Maust is a Staff Attorney with The Legal Aid Society’s Immigration Law Unit. Her practice focuses on defending individuals in removal proceedings before the Immigration Court and the Board of Immigration Appeals. She first joined The Legal Aid Society as an Immigrant Justice Corps fellow, representing immigrant children before the New York Family Courts across six counties. She has contributed to broader strategic litigation, including representing law professors in amicus briefing before the Second Circuit Court of Appeals and representing an adolescent in one of the first habeas petitions filed before the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York challenging prolonged detention in youth-specific immigration detention facilities. The Chicago Bar Foundation awarded her the 2013 Abraham Lincoln Marovitz Public Interest Law Scholarship. She received her J.D. from Northwestern Pritzker School of Law and her B.A. from Wheaton College.