Catherine Seitz

Catherine Seitz is the Legal Director for the Immigration Institute of the Bay Area (formerly known as the International Institute of the Bay Area). Catherine has a J.D. from U.C. Hastings and a B.A. in Latin American Studies from U.C. Berkeley. She has been working in the field of immigration law since 1990 starting out as a legal assistant and then a BIA Accredited Representative before her admission to the bar in December of 2001. Before joining International Institute, she worked at Legal Services for Children, Bay Area Legal Aid, Canal Alliance, the International Institute of the East Bay, and Simmons & Ungar. She is bilingual in Spanish and English.