Amarilis Schick
Supervising Attorney (bilingual in Spanish/English)
Email: ama@homelinemn.org
(612) 728-5770 x108
Amarilis is a Supervising Attorney for HOME Line, serving both English and Spanish speaking callers. She has ample experience working as a trial attorney in housing court, a translator, a union organizer, and on hotlines both in Boston, MA and the Twin Cities. A native of Puerto Rico, she has a BA in International Relations from Boston University, and a JD from the University of Connecticut School of Law. Her legal areas of interest include Employment, Landlord/Tenant, and Immigration Law. She is licensed to practice law in Minnesota.
As an undergraduate student at Boston University, Amarilis spent a year abroad in France where she developed a keen awareness to the struggles that immigrants face in the country. Back in Boston, she worked as a Spanish Translator for Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, thus developing a deeper understanding of the struggles immigrants face in the U.S. Later on, as a student at the University of Connecticut School of Law, she was part of the Asylum Clinic both as a translator and law student, where she worked hand in hand with immigrants seeking status in the US after fleeing persecution from their home countries. In Puerto Rico, she conducted qualitative research on HIV/AIDS as part of a program ran by the University of Puerto Rico School of Public Health. Here in Minnesota, she has worked at SEIU Healthcare Minnesota Local 113 assisting union members in enforcing their employment contracts with their employers, HOME Line as a Staff Attorney at the hotline, MMLA as a Staff Attorney defending clients facing evictions, and is now back at HOME Line as a Supervising Attorney.
All these experiences have cemented her commitment to assist immigrants and other marginalized communities who struggle to be represented in the legal system, and have made her a strong advocate for social awareness and justice. She believes in educating and empowering people and communities so they can defend their rights, and become better acquainted with their social and legal responsibilities.