Susana Lorenzo-Giguere is an attorney for the United States Department of Justic e, currently serving in the Disability Rights Section

of the Civil Rights Divisi on. Within both the Department of Justice s Civil Rights Division and Criminal Divis ion, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has served as an attorney in the Disability Rights S ection, the Voting Section, the Narcotic and Dangerous Drug Section, and in the Office of International Affairs. Prior to joining the Voting Section in the Civi l Rights Division of the Department of Justice in 1991, Lorenzo-Giguere was a Pr o Se Law Clerk for the United States District Court in the Southern District of New York focusing primarily on prisoner civil rights issues and habeas corpus pe titions. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere received her law degree from the University of N ew Hampshire School of Law in Concord, New Hampshire. Throughout her two-decade career at the Department of Justice, Lorenzo-Giguere h as worked on matters involving minority language voting rights, general voting a nd disability rights, domestic criminal prosecutions, and international policies and cooperation in criminal matters. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has worked on minor ity language voting rights cases, including the United States of America v. San Diego County, California; the United States of America v. Galveston County, Texa s; and the United States of America v. the City of Walnut, California. She has s poken on behalf of the Department on civil rights matters including Native Ameri can disability issues at the Indian Civil Rights conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico, in 2010; Latino voting rights at the University of California, Berkeley, Latino Policy Forum, Earl Lecture Series in Berkeley, California, in 2007; DOJ s mi nority language enforcement at the Arizona State University Conference on Sectio n 203 of the Voting Rights Act in Tempe, Arizona, in 2005; and on Asian voting r ights at Boalt Hall School of Law, Asian Law Journal Symposium, in Berkeley, Cal ifornia, in 1995. Ms. Lorenzo-Giguere also provided training in her official cap acity on criminal matters including on Mutual Legal Assistance in Bogota, Colomb ia, in 2000; in an Extradition Seminar in Paipa, Colombia, in 2001; on the Vienn a Convention for the Overseas Prosecutorial Development Assistance and Training Office, Colombian Money Laundering Unit in Tampa, Florida, in 2002, and the Colo mbian Anti-Corruption Unit in Washington, DC, in 2002; and Colombian wiretap evi dence for the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Coordinators in Washin gton, DC, in 2001. She also participated as a member of the Organization of Amer ican States' CICAD Working Group on Drafting Model Regulations to Control Precur sor Chemicals in Washington, DC, and Martinique in 1998. Lorenzo-Giguere has been an advisor, trainer, and delegate for the National Demo cratic Institute for International Affairs (NDI), assisted in NDI programs in th e Ivory Coast, and supported election-related matters in the Former Yugoslav Rep ublic of Macedonia and Romania. In the early 1990s, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere co-fo unded the Department of Justice's Asian Employees Association, Pan Asia, and was elected to serve as its chair for several non-consecutive terms in the years si nce then. Her volunteer activities have included serving on the Diversity Commit tee of the National Child Research Center for seven years; serving as the Lower School and Middle School co-chairs of the Maret School Diversity Committee; and serving for four years as a National Finals Judge for the Center for Civic Educa tion's We the People High School Competition on the U.S. Constitution. Outside o f her legal profession, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere is a member of the American Guild of Musical Artists and has taken part in productions at the Kennedy Center, the Gala Hispanic Theater, and toured with the Jose Greco Company. Lorenzo-Giguere has taught flamenco at the Oxford Academy of the Arts, the Georgetown School of Ballet, and DC Dance Collective. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere currently lives in Washi ngton, DC, with her husband and their children.