WELCOME MICHELLE UDEHN, OUR NEWEST BOARD MEMBER

Michelle Udehn, our newest board member, is an attorney for Johnson, Blumberg & Associates. She is a natural fit for Centro Romero, since she is of Mexican, Chinese and Swedish descent—a true citizen of the world. Michelle is the granddaughter of a Chinese orphan sent on a ship to Mexico, where he met and fell in love with Michelle’s grandmother. They later emigrated to the U.S. with their four children, through Texas to their ultimate destination of Chicago. One of their daughters, Michelle’s mother, was a nurse tech at the University of Illinois Chicago when she met and fell in love with Michelle’s father, a Medical Student of Swedish descent. Michelle became passionate about immigration during law school, when she worked with victims of domestic violence and human trafficking at the Asylum and Immigrant Rights Clinic. Afterward, she worked in the domestic violence division at the L.E.T. Courthouse in Miami and has become a devoted advocate of immigrants’ and women’s rights.