Rebecca Chavez is a Staff Attorney at the National Immigration Project, bringing extensive experience in immigration law from across Texas’s legal landscape. Before joining the organization in 2026, she spent over four years at the Galveston-Houston Immigrant Representation Project, advancing from Staff Attorney to Senior Staff Attorney, where she represented detained immigrant clients in removal proceedings and litigated before federal district and appellate courts, including the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals and the Board of Immigration Appeals. Earlier in her career, she practiced at Suárez Candler Law, PLLC, handling a broad range of immigration matters including asylum, VAWA self-petitions, U visas, and DACA applications.
