Belén de León (she/her) is a 2025 graduate of Berkeley Law. As an immigrant from a mixed-status family, Belén entered law school with an unwavering commitment to leverage her legal skills in the service of disenfranchised communities like her own. Throughout her law school career, Belén spent hundreds of hours working with the International Human Rights Clinic, as well as various public interest organizations, in pursuit of immigrant justice, prison abolition, and human rights. She is now honored to spend her Larsen Fellowship working with the Criminal Law and Justice Center to tackle some of the most urgent challenges in the criminal legal system.