Alicia Armstrong attended UW-Madison and obtained her BA in Spanish Literature in 2004 before receiving her JD from CUNY School of Law in 2011 in Queens, NY. Prior to law school, Alicia worked as an immigration paralegal and volunteered teaching English and U.S. civics in New York City. During law school, she interned with the HIV Law Project and participated in CUNY’s Immigration and Refugee Rights Clinic and Citizenship Now Project.
After law school, Alicia was a WI State Appointed Private Defender. She entered private immigration law practice and owned her own small immigration law firm for nearly eight years, where she specialized in family and humanitarian immigration law. Alicia co-founded the Sunshine Legal Clinic in Sun Prairie in 2014 and has volunteered pro bono with Legal Action since 2012.
Alicia joined Francis Law Center as a senior associate attorney in February 2025 after spending three years with Oasis Legal Group.
