Keylla Ortega

Keylla Ortega studies History and Global Women's Studies at BYU. She focuses on 20th-century U.S. labor history, and her honors thesis examines the religious underpinnings of the Chicano movement. She decided to pursue a career in immigration law while serving a Latter-day Saint mission in northern California. She has worked as a research assistant at BYU Law School’s International Center for Law and Religion Studies and is currently a volunteer at the No More a Stranger Foundation, a pro-bono legal clinic serving immigrants along the Wasatch Front. She learned Spanish from her Mexican immigrant parents and Italian during a mission reassignment in Rome. The most influential book she ever read was Milton’s Paradise Lost.