Anabel Martinez (she/her/hers/ella) is a Senior Policy Counsel with the Sunita Jain Anti-Trafficking Policy Initiative at Loyola Law School. In this role, she develops local, state, and national anti-trafficking policy strategies that promote survivor-informed, evidence-based public health, and community-based alternatives to the dominant carceral approaches. Her work focuses on preventing the re-traumatization of survivors, particularly those with their own criminal histories.

Previously, Anabel served as an attorney with the Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic, providing legal services to low-income immigrant community members in Los Angeles County. She also worked as a Victims’ Rights Staff Attorney for the Legal Advocacy Project for Survivors at the Los Angeles LGBT Center, where she offered trauma-informed, client-centered, and affirming holistic legal services to LGBTQI+ survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, hate violence, stalking, human trafficking and other crimes.

Anabel’s legal career also includes representing parents in juvenile dependency proceedings as an attorney at Los Angeles Dependency Lawyers, Inc. She currently serves as the Secretary for the Latina Lawyers Bar Association.

Anabel earned her Juris Doctor with a concentration in Public Interest Law from Loyola Law School and received her undergraduate degree from Dickinson College.