Angela Vigil is a Partner and Executive Director of Pro Bono at the law firm of Baker McKenzie. Ms. Vigil's works spans the globe in different areas of social impact and public interest law. She specializes in children's law where she has an active practice in the representation of children in trial courts, appeals, human rights forums, and public policy. She is focused on reimagining child rights systems and policies and brings this focus to the many different types of social impact work the Firm does in child rights. Her human rights and public international law work for global pro bono clients of the Firm includes international advocacy on behalf of street-connected children and challenging the deprivation of liberty of children in systems worldwide. Locally, Angela has been focusing on the representation of foster youth, unaccompanied immigrant children, trafficking victims, and those deprived of liberty from around the nation and globe. She is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on issues including the synergy between child rights and the rule of law and sustainable development goals, U.S. Supreme Court decision relevant to juvenile defenders at the National Juvenile Defender Summit, sessions at the Pro Bono Institute’s national seminar, practical sessions at the Equal Justice Conference of the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association and the ABA, a human rights perspective on the legal needs of street-connected children at the International Summit on the Legal Needs of Street Children as well as other topics and organizations. Read her full profile here.