Mirella Olivia Ceja-Orozco

Mirella Ceja-Orozco is an attorney practicing immigration law. She graduated from University of California-Davis in 2007 with degrees in Political Science and Native American Studies. While attending UC Davis, she studied abroad in Oaxaca, Mexico and Accra, Ghana. She also interned in Washington, D.C. at the U.S. House of Representative' Committee on Foreign Affairs. In 2009, she graduated from University of California-Berkeley with an advanced certificate in Paralegal Studies. She attended Hamline University School of Law, and graduated in May 2012.

While in law school, Mirella volunteered at Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota as the U-Visa and VAWA Certified Student Attorney. She completed over 600 volunteer hours during her law school career. In 2011, she was awarded the 2011 Outstanding Student Service Award from the Minnesota Justice Foundation and the 2011 Volunteer of the Year Award from the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota. Mirella was also the 2012 Hamline Latino Law Student Association Endowment recipient. She also participated in a study abroad law program with United States Chief Justice John Roberts in Florence, Italy.

Mirella currently serves on the AILA National U/T/VAWA Committee and the AILA National Law Student Outreach Committee. She is also co-chair of the MN/DAK AILA New Members Division and a member of the Minnesota State Bar Association Immigration Law Division.