Alena Carl is a dedicated legal professional specializing in immigration and housing law. Currently serving as a Staff Attorney at Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc., Alena focuses on eviction defense. Previous experience includes roles as a legal intern at The Advocates for Human Rights, where Alena represented clients in immigration court, and as a Student Director at the Immigration and Human Rights Clinic, where Alena guided student attorneys in assisting asylum seekers. Alena's background also includes research positions at the Migration Policy Institute and the Southern Poverty Law Center, contributing to civil rights initiatives and asylum advocacy. Educational accomplishments include earning a Doctor of Law degree from the University of Minnesota Law School and a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from The College of Wooster.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc.
Southern Minnesota Regional Legal Services, Inc. provides free, high-quality legal help to low-income people in critical civil matters. For more 110 years, we’ve helped individuals and families secure and protect their basic needs, maintaining freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness, and abuse. Because, Justice Matters ®. TO GET HELP CALL 1-888-575-2954 OR APPLY ONLINE at www.smrls.org SMRLS® mission is: To provide a full range of high quality legal services to low-income persons and eligible client groups in civil matters, in a respectful manner which enables clients to: (1) enforce their legal rights; (2) obtain effective access to the courts, administrative agencies and forums which constitute our system of justice; (3) maintain freedom from hunger, homelessness, sickness and abuse; (4) empower persons and assure equal opportunity, thus, helping people to help themselves and become economically self-reliant, to the extent their individual abilities and circumstances permit. SMRLS®, through a diverse, respectful and fair working environment, and legal assistance and community education activities, promotes and respects the dignity of low-income persons and seeks new and effective solutions to the critical and common legal problems of low-income persons which arise in a broad community context.