MARISSA M. NUNCIO joined the firm in March 2008.  Upon graduation from Loyola Law School, Ms. Nuncio received a Post Graduate Fellowship, in recognition of her demonstrated commitment to public interest law.  During her time at Loyola, Ms. Nuncio was a Public Interest Scholar, a prestigious scholarship awarded to students with extensive social justice experience and a desire to pursue public interest law.

Prior to joining the firm, Ms. Nuncio used her post-graduate fellowship to work as a staff attorney for a nonprofit network of day laborer organizations.  She was actively involved in civil rights litigation, protecting day laborers' First Amendment right to seek work in public.  She helped launch a city-wide wage claim campaign and created popular education workshops and materials addressing such topics as workers' employment rights and immigration raids.  Before that, Ms. Nuncio worked for three years with Los Angeles garment workers.