Michelle Llosa is a trained capital defense mitigation specialist and a litigation paralegal. She joined the Florida Justice Institute (FJI) in 2020 and has been advocating to ensure humane, constitutional standards for imprisoned persons. In her current role at FJI as the Community Engagement Paralegal, she continues to serve as a litigation paralegal while also building statewide campaigns to support the litigation work at FJI. Michelle also maintains a private caseload of capital mitigation work. She is a graduate of the University of Chicago where she studied sociology and human development and of Northeastern University School of Law, one of our nation’s only public interest focused law schools. Michelle is committed to social justice and passionate about seeking solutions to end the mass caging of human beings.