Mishan Wroe is a Directing Attorney on the Immigration team at the National Center for Youth Law. Mishan’s work focuses on using impact litigation to advance and protect the civil rights of immigrant youth. As class counsel on Flores v. Reno, she monitors and enforces the Flores Settlement Agreement that ensures basic protections for children in federal immigration custody. Mishan is also class counsel on Lucas R. v. Azar that expanded due process and statutory protections for detained unaccompanied children, including those children with disabilities. Mishan is also class counsel on Angelica S. v. HHS which challenges ORR’s restrictive sponsorship requirements and LGML v. Noem which challenges the government’s attempts to summarily expel unaccompanied children from ORR custody.

Mishan has more than 10 years of litigation experience. Before joining the National Center for Youth Law, she was a trial attorney at Riley Safer Holmes & Cancila LLP. While there, she maintained an active pro bono practice and had a secondment at the ACLU of Northern California where she focused on reproductive justice litigation. Mishan received her bachelor’s degree in public policy from Stanford University and her law degree from the University of Chicago Law School where she worked in the Federal Criminal Justice Clinic and co-founded a clinic focused on protecting the rights of domestic violence survivors.