Mayer-Salins is a Supervisory Senior Attorney with the Training and Legal Support section. She came to CLINIC from Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen, & Loewy LLP, where she represented clients in a wide array immigration matters and helped coordinate the Boston office’s pro bono efforts.

Prior to joining Fragomen, Mayer-Salins practiced removal defense and family-based immigration law at a law firm in Boston. She also completed a fellowship with Boston College’s Post-Deportation Human Rights Project, where she represented foreign nationals seeking to return to the United States after deportation. Before her fellowship, she served as a judicial law clerk at the Board of Immigration Appeals of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Mayers-Salins earned her J.D. from American University, Washington College of Law and her bachelor’s degrees in psychology; and government and politics from University of Maryland, College Park. She is a member of the state bars of Virginia and Massachusetts.