Miosotti Tenecora

Miosotti joined the ILRC September 2024 as a Staff Attorney focusing on immigrant youth and immigration enforcement issues. She is based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining ILRC, she was an associate attorney at Van Der Hout LLP and focused on affirmative and removal defense immigration matters. Prior to Van Der Hout LLP, she was an asylum officer at the USCIS San Francisco Asylum Office. At the asylum office, Miosotti adjudicated affirmative asylum applications, and credible and reasonable fear determinations.  

Miosotti began her legal career at the non-profit, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA). At CLSEPA, Miosotti focused on both affirmative and removal defense immigration cases that included asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U visas, T visas, and other humanitarian forms of relief.

Prior to beginning her legal career, at Boston University School of Law as a public interest scholarship recipient, Miosotti participated in the International Human Rights clinic, completed a 6-month semester-in-practice externship with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Dominican Republic, interned at the Bronx District Attorney’s office, and was a judicial intern at the United States District Court for Eastern District of New York.  

Prior to attending law school, Miosotti worked at various non-profits/agencies advocating for human rights, such as Sanctuary for Families and the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Andorra to the United Nations.

Miosotti has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fordham University, a Master of Arts degree in international studies from Concordia University-Irvine, and a law degree from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She is fluent in Spanish.