Ana’s commercial practice focuses on litigating and arbitrating disputes on a wide array of matters ranging from legal malpractice to patent enforcement to construction disputes. Besides this work, for more than a decade Ana has devoted significant time to her pro bono representations of asylum seekers and refugee organizations, including numerous appellate and advisory matters for the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. For this work Ana has received recognition from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights (2004, 2008, and 2010) and the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies (2009). In 2016 she received the Legacy Award by Unlikely Heroes for her successful representation of young women escaping persecution by a regional terrorist organization. After appointing her, the Honorary Board for the Center for Gender & Refugee Studies described Ana as representing “the very best of the legal profession: an accomplished and skilled litigator who provides the same high-quality zealous advocacy whether she is representing an international corporation, a foreign government, or a refugee child.” 

Ana is a Clinical Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School teaching Advocacy in International Arbitration and prior to that was an Adjunct Professor of Law at Georgetown Law School teaching a course in the use of experts in federal courts.

Ana was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, and grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. She received her B.A, summa cum laude, from Transylvania University in 1996 and her J.D., magna cum laude, from Harvard Law School in 2000, where she was an editor of the Harvard Law Review. In 2014, Ana also received a Master’s in International Public Policy, with distinction, from the Johns Hopkins University, School of Advanced International Studies.