Prior to joining Acacia Center for Justice, Grace was the Coordinating Attorney for the Hudson Valley with Catholic Charities Community Services Archdiocese of New York, where she focused on expanding legal representation to immigrants in the Hudson Valley. Before Catholic Charities, Grace worked at My Sister’s Place in Westchester County, New York where she represented survivors of human trafficking and domestic violence in affirmative and defensive proceedings. Grace previously worked as a federal litigator representing immigrants on a pro bono basis before shifting to immigration legal services fulltime. Grace earned her JD from St. John’s School of Law where she was a fellow for the Center for International and Comparative Law and a member of the St. John’s Law Review and her BA from Bard College where she studied Religion and Asian Studies.