Ms. Carolina Antonini is a native of Venezuela. She immigrated to the United States in 1979, and subsequently received a bachelor’s and Juris Doctor degrees from Georgia State University in Atlanta, Georgia. Prior to 1996, the year she became an attorney, Ms. Antonini worked as a social worker and as a program director for the Catholic Archdiocese of Atlanta and the St. Vincent de Paul Society developing and providing services for Georgia’s indigent immigrant community. She also created and conducted cultural sensitivity seminars for service providers and law enforcement personnel, as well as health, legal, and social seminars for the immigrant community. As an attorney, Ms. Antonini worked in the legal clinic of Catholic Social Services where she represented indigent immigrants in i...