Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
Adriana Costa has extensive experience in interpretation and translation, currently serving as an Apprentice and Spanish Interpreter-Translator at the Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project since September 2020. Prior to this role, Adriana spent a decade with the National Alliance on Mental Illness as a Volunteer Staff member, where responsibilities included serving as a Multicultural Coordinator, Board Member, and Familia a Familia Teacher at Tri City Medical Center, along with facilitating support groups. Adriana's educational background includes a Bachelor’s Degree in Chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh, alongside multiple certificates in interpretation and translation from the Southern California School of Interpretation, specializing in court interpretation and medical-legal studies.
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Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project
Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project, a program of Catholic Charities of Los Angeles, Inc., is a non-profit law firm which provides community education and legal representation to Southern California’s most vulnerable immigrant communities. Esperanza provides legal representation to immigrants who are in detention and/or removal proceedings, and focuses on particularly complex immigration cases which may involve unaccompanied minors, adults with mental health issues, and cases with past criminal or gang history. Esperanza also provides community education programming and pro se assistance to immigrants in removal proceedings both in detained and non-detained settings. Esperanza has proudly provided legal services to immigrants and their families in Los Angeles for over 15 years.