Sandy Orozco

Sandy Orozco

2021 Ricardo Salinas Scholar, Ricardo Salinas Scholarship

Sandy Orozco works in the Illinois JusticeCrops, providing legal procedural guidance to self-represented litigants that come into the Cook County Courthouse.

Sandy Orozco works in the Illinois JusticeCrops, providing legal procedural guidance to self-represented litigants that come into the Cook County Courthouse. Her bilingual skills have helped self-represented litigants who are dominant Spanish speakers better navigate legal proceedings. She is an admitted Honors Law Program at the Chicago-Kent College of Law. Despite being a first-generation Latinx college student who lost her father to COVID-19, Sandy has persevered, staying focused on achieving her law degree to advocate for immigrant rights.  Sandy says that “as a child of immigrants, navigating spaces can be a burden and a privilege, and breaking generational cycles can be exhausting, but making history in unforged territory inspires me.” Selected as a 2021 Aspen Young Leaders Fellow-Chicago.