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Jennifer Walker Gates

May 12, 2026

CarlyHOST
2:42
What specifically drew you to the practice of law that you're in? What, what drew you to immigration?
2:48
I was very interested in doing human rights work as an undergraduate student.
2:54
I was a journalism major for a while, and then I was, I would- gonna go into natural sciences and do environmental law, and then I was...
3:02
So while I was a journalism student, I did travel quite a bit in Latin America, reporting on student groups that were working in conflict zones.
3:11
That's when I really began to learn Spanish.
3:13
I began to really see what was happening in the countries that were our southern neighbors.
3:18
When I came back from my first trip to Latin America, we had been in, um, El Salvador, and this was during their civil war.

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