Adriana Rodriguez
Scholar Domestic Violence / Family Legal Aid Employment / Labor Government
Class of 2011
Adriana Rodriguez is an associate attorney with Walsh Gallegos Kyle Robinson & Roalson P.C. Previously, she was a trial attorney with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in San Antonio.
Immediately after law school, Adriana worked with TRLA in Laredo as an Equal Justice Works Fellow. She developed a project with Laredo’s Casa de Misericordia to provide legal representation and access to services for undocumented Laredoans who were victims of intimate partner violence and who suffered from mental illness, including substance abuse. After her fellowship, she continued with TRLA as manager of Legal Aid for Survivors of Sexual Assault project from October 2015 to December 2019. She proceeded with TRLA becoming Director of Recruitment, Training and Operations where she practiced family and immigration law representing survivors of violence – domestic violence, sexual assault, stalking, and sex and labor trafficking – from the Laredo office.
At Texas Law, Adriana participated in the Domestic Violence Clinic and Immigration Clinic, and worked with fellow students as a client liaison on the Domestic Violence Survivor Support Network, a student organization that raised funds to support domestic violence survivors with short-term emergency assistance for bus tickets, utility bills, housing, and childcare. She also served as co-director of Street Law. She worked with American Gateways in Austin and TRLA in Laredo and Austin, and interned in Laredo with the Judge George P. Kazen of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas.