Ashley Turner Harrington, Esq. Senior Staff Attorney, Children’s Program Ashley Turner Harrington joined RMIAN’s Children’s Program as a part-time Staff Attorney in February 2014. Within RMIAN’s Children’s Program, Ashley provides “Know-Your-Rights” presentations at the Immigration Court’s monthly Children’s Docket and she represents immigrant youth in front of both the immigration court and U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services. Prior to joining RMIAN, Ashley worked as an Associate Attorney for over three years at the private immigration law firm, Lichter Immigration. During law school at the University of Colorado, Ashley interned at the Rocky Mountain Survivors Center where she successfully represented asylum seekers and at the Immigrant Legal Center of Boulder County where she represented low-income immigrants. In law school, she earned a full merit scholarship, the Dufford and Brown Legal Writing Award, First Place in Appellate Advocacy Oral Argument Competition, and the Chase Human Rights, Women’s Law Caucus, Equal Justice America, and Equal Justice Works Fellowships. Ashley went to law school after working as an advocate for several years with victims of domestic violence at Family Tree Women in Crisis and the YMCA Battered Women’s Services. Her commitment to serving victims of abuse endures through her passion for representing immigrants in VAWA, SIJS, U-Visa, and T-Visa cases. Ashley is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association. She is a native of Denver, where she lives with her husband and two children. She is proficient in Spanish.
