Chisato Kimura (she/they) is a Skadden Fellow with the Illinois office. Her fellowship project focuses on immigration justice and enforcing the TRUST Act, which protects immigrants’ due process rights and limits state and local law enforcement’s participation in federal immigration enforcement.
Chisato received her J.D. from Yale Law School, where she worked as a law student intern in the Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic and the Challenging Mass Incarceration Clinic. She also served as a Student Director for the Lowenstein Human Rights Clinic and as an Executive Editor of Features of the Yale Journal of International Law. During law school, Chisato interned at MJC’s Illinois Office and Miner, Barnhill & Galland, P.C. She holds a B.A., magna cum laude, in International Relations from Mount Holyoke College.