Susana Lorenzo-Giguere, Attorney
With a little over two decades of legal experience, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has
assisted the United States government in prosecuting criminals, supporting
criminal prosecutions across international borders, ensuring disability rights,
and protecting the rights of voters, particularly minority language voters.
Since 1991, Lorenzo-Giguere has worked in both the Criminal Division and the
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Susana
Lorenzo-Giguere has been part of the legal team representing the United States
government in numerous cases where there had been evidence that voters who speak
Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Navajo, or Keres, and had
limited-English proficiency, were not given sufficient access to bilingual
assistance, voter information, or ballots in their native language. For her
accomplished legal work in minority language voting rights cases,
Lorenzo-Giguere has been commended by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights
Division, the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors and Navajo Election
Administration of the Navajo Nation, and the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego.
She has spoken for the Civil Rights Division on minority language
rights at the Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Symposium for US Attorneys at
the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2008 and in
Washington, DC, in 2004 and 2005; at the Conference on Asian Pacific American
Leadership in Washington, DC, in 2006; and at the National Alliance of
Vietnamese Service Agencies in Houston, Texas, in 2004.
Susana
Lorenzo-Giguere has also supported fair elections around the world and served as
an advisor, trainer, and delegate with the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in programs in the Ivory Coast, for Romanian election
officials, and regarding the parliamentary election laws of the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia. Outside of her legal career, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has
taught flamenco at schools in the Washington, DC area, been part of productions
at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Opera, and has toured with the Spanish
Dance Society and the Jose Greco Company. She also holds membership in the
American Guild of Musical Artists. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere currently resides in
Washington, DC with her
family.
assisted the United States government in prosecuting criminals, supporting
criminal prosecutions across international borders, ensuring disability rights,
and protecting the rights of voters, particularly minority language voters.
Since 1991, Lorenzo-Giguere has worked in both the Criminal Division and the
Civil Rights Division of the United States Department of Justice. Susana
Lorenzo-Giguere has been part of the legal team representing the United States
government in numerous cases where there had been evidence that voters who speak
Spanish, Chinese, Tagalog, Korean, Vietnamese, Navajo, or Keres, and had
limited-English proficiency, were not given sufficient access to bilingual
assistance, voter information, or ballots in their native language. For her
accomplished legal work in minority language voting rights cases,
Lorenzo-Giguere has been commended by the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights
Division, the Navajo Board of Election Supervisors and Navajo Election
Administration of the Navajo Nation, and the Vietnamese Federation of San Diego.
She has spoken for the Civil Rights Division on minority language
rights at the Ballot Access and Voting Integrity Symposium for US Attorneys at
the National Advocacy Center in Columbia, South Carolina, in 2008 and in
Washington, DC, in 2004 and 2005; at the Conference on Asian Pacific American
Leadership in Washington, DC, in 2006; and at the National Alliance of
Vietnamese Service Agencies in Houston, Texas, in 2004.
Susana
Lorenzo-Giguere has also supported fair elections around the world and served as
an advisor, trainer, and delegate with the National Democratic Institute for
International Affairs in programs in the Ivory Coast, for Romanian election
officials, and regarding the parliamentary election laws of the Former Yugoslav
Republic of Macedonia. Outside of her legal career, Susana Lorenzo-Giguere has
taught flamenco at schools in the Washington, DC area, been part of productions
at the Kennedy Center with the Washington Opera, and has toured with the Spanish
Dance Society and the Jose Greco Company. She also holds membership in the
American Guild of Musical Artists. Susana Lorenzo-Giguere currently resides in
Washington, DC with her
family.