Lauren DesRosiers is the incoming director of the Immigration Law Clinic at Albany Law School, where she has supervised students in immigration matters as a staff attorney since 2021. DesRosiers has also taught several classes at the law school as an adjunct, including immigration law and client counseling. She was previously the Judith S. Kaye teaching fellow with the Historical Society of the New York Courts and Bard Early Colleges, where she spent two semesters designing and teaching an undergraduate course that explored New York State’s influence on the development of US immigration law and policy.

Before coming to Albany Law School, DesRosiers was a senior staff attorney with the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP), where she represented Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer + (LGBTQ+) immigrant survivors of violence in immigration matters and other civil proceedings. DesRosiers advocated for and represented immigrant LGBTQ+ survivors of hate violence in her earlier role at AVP as an Equal Justice Works fellow.

DesRosiers started her legal career as a litigation associate at a large law firm in New York City, representing clients in civil matters and maximizing the use of the firm’s generous pro bono policy with an active docket of pro bono immigration cases.

She received her JD from the University of Michigan Law School and BA from Bard College at Simon’s Rock.