Bio
Maria has been an attorney with Musillo Unkenholt since 2011. Maria’s practice includes both business-based and family-based immigration matters.
Maria volunteers and works on immigration-related causes, serving on the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Immigration Practice Group and teaching Employment-Based Immigration Law as an adjunct at the University of Cincinnati College of Law. Maria was appointed to the Cincinnati Bar Association’s Board of Trustees and the Board’s Executive Committee.
While attending law school, Maria served as President of the Immigrant Community Legal Advocacy Project, edited the Immigration Nationality Law Review, and worked in Washington, DC, advocating for comprehensive immigration reform. Prior to joining MU, Maria was an International Services Advisor at the University of Cincinnati, where she advised students, scholars and faculty coming from abroad to study and work at UC.
Maria graduated from the University of Cincinnati College of Law in 2009 and is licensed in the State of Ohio.
Education
University of Cincinnati College of Law
Juris Doctorate 2009
Northern Kentucky University
Bachelor of Arts 2006
Major: English
Minor: Political Science
University Honors Scholar
Selected Professional Associations
Cincinnati Bar Association
Board of Trustees
Executive Committee
Immigration Committee (Founder and Past Chair)
VOICE (women’s mentoring initiative, Founder and Co-Chair)
Boost Career Circle
American Immigration Lawyers’ Association
University of Cincinnati, College of Law – Adjunct Professor