As an Associate in the Immigration Group, Devin focuses on employment-based immigration, including temporary and permanent visas, refugee/asylum law, relief from removal and family-based immigration and naturalization.

Experience

Before joining Cohen & Grigsby in 2007, Devin was a staff attorney for Human Rights First in Washington, D.C.  Prior to that, she was an immigration associate at Harter Secrest & Emery in Rochester, New York, from 2005 to 2007; and a staff attorney for VIVE Inc.: An Organization for World Refugees in Buffalo, New York, from 2003 to 2005.

Devin was a legal intern for the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Global Affairs, in Washington, D.C. in 2002.  She spent a semester working at the AIDS Law Project in Johannesburg, South Africa in 2001 and at the ACLU Immigration Rights Project in New York City also in 2001.

She was a legal research assistant in the War Crimes Research Office of the Washington College of Law in Washington, D.C., in 2000.

Devin served as Project Manager for MACRO International, which is based in Washington, DC, on USAid-funded health facility surveys in Senegal, Kenya and Mexico in 1999 and 2000.  Prior to this, she performed original research on malaria treatment behaviors in the Kable District of S.W. Uganda.  The results of her research have been published in the Journal of Tropical Medicine and International Health.  She utilized her research capabilities to assist the Independent Research Project in Kabale, Uganda, in 1998.

She served as a legislative intern for the Amnesty International Legislative Office Headquarters in Washington, D.C. in 1997 and was a research intern in 1996 for the World Health Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.

Additional Roles

Devin is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, the American Bar Association, the Massachusetts Bar Association and the New York Bar Association.  She is a membership committee member of the Women's Bar Association.  

She is active in the community and is a mentor for Strong Women Strong Girls and a law student mentor through Allegheny County Bar Association.  She is pro bono coordinator for Pittsburgh AILA and pro bono liaison to AILA National.

Other public service and community involvement has included mentoring law students at SUNY Buffalo, participating in the Volunteer Lawyers Project Pro-Bono Attorney Project at the Buffalo Federal Detention Facility and being a member of the Public Interest Law Group for the Asylum and Refugee Law Project, as well as a volunteer for the Freedom House, which provides shelter and legal services for immigrants.

She also took part in the Monroe County Lawyers for Learning from 2005-2007, the  Freedom Network Training on Human Trafficking in New York in 2005 and the CLINIC Legal Advocacy Training, also in New York, in 2004.

Honors and Achievements

She was a featured speaker in 2008 at the Christian Legal Aid Immigration Training.

Devin is fluent in French and conversational in Spanish.

Education

• J.D., University of Michigan Law School, 2002
• M.P.H., International Health and Epidemiology, University of Michigan, School of Public Health, 1999
• Fellowship Grant
• B.A., Government / International Relations, Smith College, 1997
• Mayo Foundation Scholarship
• Brooke Scholarship for the International Community

Bar/Court Admissions

• Massachusetts
• New York