Pamela Cardoso
Bio
As a first-generation Brazilian American, Pamela brings both a personal and professional commitment to immigration justice and is fluent in Portuguese, which allows her to work directly with clients in their native language.
Pamela earned her J.D. from the University of Baltimore School of Law, where she served as a Student Attorney in the school's Immigrant Rights Clinic — ranked #4 in the nation. Her legal experience includes litigation work at the Amica Center for Immigrant Rights, where she co-authored a Fourth Circuit brief in a Convention Against Torture case.
She has also worked with the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, traveling to the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama to litigate the state's unlawful ban on DEI programs in higher education. She additionally worked with the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund (MALDEF), combating race- and citizenship-based employment discrimination against Latino communities. She has also interned at the District of Columbia Office of the Attorney General's Civil Rights Section, where she contributed to civil rights enforcement litigation within the nation's capital.
Pamela is an alumna of the Congressional Hispanic Caucus Institute (CHCI) and served on the Latin American Law Student Association board at the University of Baltimore. She has attended U.S. Supreme Court oral arguments on birthright citizenship, and her commitment to the field was featured in The Baltimore Banner, in a piece profiling law students carrying forward immigration advocacy amid a shifting legal landscape. She holds a B.A. in Political Science, with a minor in Environmental Science, from Rutgers University.
Pamela is dedicated to advancing racial justice, civil rights, and civil liberties, with a particular focus on the immigrant communities she serves.