Kate Drury is a lawyer focused on the intersection of criminal defense and immigration, providing holistic representation to noncitizen clients. She represents individuals in detained removal cases in federal immigration court through her work at the Community Immigration Law Center in Madison. She also owns Kate Drury Law, LLC, a statewide criminal defense firm based in Waupaca.
Previously, Attorney Drury spent 13 years with the Wisconsin State Public Defender’s Office, where she held multiple roles, including staff attorney, regional manager, and immigration practice coordinator. She has extensive experience in providing Padilla advisal to attorneys and, as a litigator, has tried over 30 cases to verdict. In 2024, she was named one of Wisconsin Lawyer magazine’s Women to Watch.
Amanda K. Gennerman has practiced immigration law exclusively since 2004. Before joining Pines Bach, LLP as a partner, she founded Gennerman Law Group in Madison, Wisconsin. Attorney Gennerman’s practice focuses on multiple areas of immigration law, including family-based petitions, consular processing, humanitarian petitions, naturalization, and removal defense. She is a co-founder, board member, and volunteer of the Community Immigration Law Center (CILC) in Madison. In 2023, she co-founded Project Immigration Justice for Palestinians.
Attorney Gennerman frequently presents on immigration topics, including at the AILA Annual Conference and State Bar of Wisconsin events. Her writing appears in the U Visa Manual by the Immigrant Legal Resource Center. Attorney Gennerman has received multiple honors, including Wisconsin Rising Star Attorney and the WI/AILA Pro Bono Champion award. She is a member of ASISTA and AILA, currently serving as Treasurer of the WI/AILA Chapter.
Natalia Lucak is a supervising attorney at the Community Immigration Law Center based in Madison, Wisconsin. She received her undergraduate degree in European History from Barnard College and her law degree from the University of Maryland Francis King Carey School of Law.
Over the last twelve years, Attorney Lucak has worked as an immigration lawyer at non-profit organizations that provide direct legal services to immigrants in New York City and Madison, Wisconsin. She is a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association and the State Bars of New York, New Jersey, and Wisconsin.
Aissa I. Olivarez is the legal director at the Community Immigration Law Center (CILC) and a junior partner at Eastbridge Law Group LLP. She earned her B.A. in Government from the University of Texas at Austin and her J.D. from the University of Wisconsin Law School in 2016. Before joining CILC, she represented unaccompanied minors in removal proceedings at ProBAR in Harlingen, Texas.
During law school, Aissa participated in the Immigrant Justice Clinic and the Defenders Project, was an active leader in the Student Bar Association, and served as president of the Latinx Law Student Association. She earned multiple awards, including the Barbara B. Crabb Prize and the Children’s Justice Project Fellowship. She received the 2019 Ilda C. Thomas Award from Centro Hispano and was named one of Wisconsin’s Most Influential Latinos in 2021.