Stephanie Lopez, Esq.

Stephanie Lopez, Esq., graduated from Fordham Law School in 2011. After graduating from law school, Stephanie worked at The Bronx Defenders as a civil attorney representing clients in housing courts, public benefits hearings, and conducting plea consults for employment and licensing purposes. After almost three years of doing civil non-immigration work, Stephanie became an immigration staff attorney, representing detained and non-detained clients in removal and affirmative matters as well as providing plea consult consults.  

In 2015, she went on to work at Neighborhood Defender Services of Harlem, where she represented clients in removal proceedings who had contacts with the criminal legal system. She also represented clients in their naturalization interviews before United States Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) and counseled clients on the immigration consequences of criminal convictions. She became a supervising attorney at NDS-Harlem in 2016. In 2019, Stephanie joined The Door as a Managing Attorney of the removal team. Stephanie was born and raised in The Bronx and speaks Spanish fluently.