Carrie Sommer/Courtesy of Cindy Lopez
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LEAP fellows Astrid Saenz, Fatima Salcido, and Victor Briseno participating in a law school application workshop. Carrie Sommer/Courtesy of Cindy Lopez
When Ingrid Lopez Martinez received DACA status during her senior year of high school, it transformed her perception of the law. Instead of seeing it as a system used to limit her immigrant family s potential, she for the first time saw the law as a transformative tool for justice.
This first-generation college graduate, who moved to the United States from El Salvador at age 4, now aspires to become a lawyer so that she can pay it forward and advocate for the undocumented community.