Loida Minchez

Loida Minchez joined the Justice Center of Southeast Massachusetts in May 2025 where she provides legal support to attorneys as an Immigration Paralegal, coordinates consultations and organizes legal clinics. Loida has over a decade of experience working in immigration legal services, including direct support to attorneys, client advocacy, and multilingual community outreach. Most recently, she served as a paralegal with Kids in Need of Defense (KIND), where she worked directly with unaccompanied children and their sponsors, supporting attorneys with a variety of immigration cases. Prior to that, she spent several years at Catholic Social Services of Fall River, MA, where she coordinated intakes and supported diverse immigration cases. Her background also includes time as the Immigration Consular Assistant with the Guatemalan Consulate of New England, where she regularly visited ICE detention centers and assisted with intakes, reunifications, and consular legal matters. Loida is a Guatemalan Lawyer with a Master’s Degree in Constitutional Law, fluent in English with basic conversational level in Portuguese. She has consistently and meaningfully served as a bridge between immigrant community and legal advocates.