Anabel Martinez

Anabel Martinez (she/her/hers/ella) is currently a Policy Associate with the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Policy Initiative at Loyola Law School where she helps to develop local, state, and national anti-trafficking policy strategies, that promote survivor-informed and evidence-based public health and community-based alternatives to dominant carceral approach to human trafficking. Previously, Anabel worked at Law and Justice Legal Services and at the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic. In the past, Anabel worked as a Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney for the Legal Advocacy Project for Survivors at the Los Angeles LGBT Center where she provided trauma informed, client-centered, and affirming holistic legal services to LGBTQI+ survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, hate violence, stalking, and other crimes. Anabel also worked as an attorney at the Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc, where she represented parents in juvenile dependency proceedings.

While in law school, Anabel was a clinical student with the Loyola Immigration Justice Clinic and the Loyola Juvenile Innocence and Fair Sentencing Clinic. For her clinical work at Loyola Law School, Anabel earned an Outstanding Clinical Law Student award in 2019. Anabel was also a law clerk at the Los Angeles Public Defender's Office and earned a 2019 Volunteer of the Year award from the Los Angeles Public Defender Office. Additionally, while in law school, Anabel was on the board of La Raza and Outlaw and was a research assistant for Professor Priscilla Ocen.

Anabel received her undergraduate degree, with a major in psychology and a minor in education, from Dickinson College in Carlisle, PA. Anabel earned a full tuition Posse Foundation Scholarship to attend Dickinson College. Anabel earned her Juris Doctorate from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles where she graduated with a concentration in Public Interest Law.

Anabel is a proud Queer Lawtina attorney and was the first in her family to obtain a college and professional degree. Anabel immigrated to the United States from a small town in Michoacán, Mexico, grew up in the South East LA area, and currently resides in the Boyle Heights area.