Angela Vigil is a Partner and Executive Director of Global Pro Bono at the law firm of Baker McKenzie. Angela's works spans the globe in different areas of social impact and public interest law. She specializes in children's rights where she has an active practice focused on reimagining child rights systems and policies and brings this focus to the many different types of social impact work of the Firm. Angela's social justice advocacy includes extensive work envisioning how technology and innovation can advance the rights of children and other vulnerable populations balanced against the challenges presented by the engagements of AI and other advancements. Her human rights and public international law work for global pro bono clients of the Firm includes international advocacy on behalf of street-connected children and challenging the deprivation of liberty of children in systems worldwide. In the United States, Angela has been focusing on the representation of children accused of crime, child victims of sexual exploitation, foster youth, unaccompanied immigrant children, trafficking victims, children deprived of liberty and much more. She is engaged in active examination, advocacy and public policy on how to provide professional legal aid, excellent legal and court structures, and effective public service systems that benefit from innovative advancements to secure just outcomes and meaningful opportunities. Angela has been a frequent speaker at international conferences on issues including the synergy between child rights as a mechanism for the rule of law and the sustainable development goals, U.S. Supreme Court decision relevant to youth justice defenders, pro bono policy and practice for law firms and in-house legal departments, practical sessions at legal aid conferences in the US and abroad, a human rights perspective on the legal needs of street-connected children, and other issues. She founded the Children’s Rights Summit that is now an annual event for in-house counsel and children’s advocates. She also helped lead the first-ever United States White House Hackathon on foster care and technology in 2016 and has continued the work started there in other technology developments around the country focusing on at risk and vulnerable children and youth. She engages in trial advocacy training in many areas of public interest law around the globe as an active faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and serves on the organization's board. She is also a board member for the Global Center for Cooperative Security, and a non-voting counsel to the board of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth and a leader in the American Bar Association including the Commission on Immigration, the Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the Center for Human Rights. Past work includes service to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation and a special advisor; International advisory committee for Making the Shift, a social innovation lab addressing youth homelessness; board service to the Florida Bar Foundation; cofounder of the international professional development organization for pro bono counsel at law firms, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel and founding board member of the National Juvenile Defender Center (now the Gault Center on Youth Justice).