About

 
Esperanza Franco Law School strategy
 
 
 

Rational

  • U.S. and Spanish Attorney (licensed in Arizona & Spain)

  • LL.B. in Law from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICADE - Madrid).

  • LL.M. from the University of Pennsylvania Law School with a Dean’s Merit Scholarship (as well as acceptance into other LL.M. programs at Berkeley, Virginia, U of Texas, UCLA, USC, and Georgetown — where I was offered more than 60k in scholarships).

  • LLM Class President at UPenn (elected). Created the 1st LLM Faculty Award & Inaugural Graduation Speaker.

  • Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona with the Honorable Thomas Tang scholarship and selected for QTR (“Qualified Tuition Reduction”) after my first year as a hired employee (TA)

  • Arizona Law Review + the first international student in the law school’s history to join through the writing competition

  • Cali Award in Legal Research

  • Served as a TA for Legal Writing, Torts, and Crim Pro. Also co-taught a SCOTUS for college students majoring in law 

  • 2017 Graduation Award for community engagement (nominated by students and selected by faculty)

  • Summer clerkship and an externship with two federal district judges (Philadelphia and Tucson)

  • Experience in top corporate law firms in Detroit, Phoenix and Madrid

  • Litigation & advocacy experience in defending detained immigrants in Arizona’s prisons

  • Online Entrepreneur

  • Freelance Immigration Attorney: appeals and complex immigration cases

  • Certified teacher at the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute (Emotional Intelligence, Mindfulness & Neuroscience)

 

Emotional

· Born & raised: Tenerife, Canary Islands

· Self-care activist, poet, emotional alchemist

· Meditation student + teacher

· Energy healing, somatic release, breathwork

· Tarot

· Astrology (cancer rising, sag moon, and gemini sun); Human Design (Projector)

· Dancing, always. Yoga + intuitive movement

· The Sun, the Ocean, & cats.

· Connecting with my witchy sisters

· Journaling, powerful affirmations, vulnerability practice

· Chocolate ice-cream

· Ritual, morning routines

· Deconditioning from social constructs and patriarchal, capitalist narratives. Understanding the human mind

· Healing of the self. Shadow work. (there ain’t no light without darkness).

· Black Lives Matter. Indigenous land. LGBTQ. Social justice.

· Growth through difficult conversations, vulnerability and self-awareness.