Staff

Marta Kiss

Case Manager

Marta is a North Carolina certified paralegal who joined Brown Immigration Law in 2017 after a year of working as a paralegal in criminal law. After receiving her Bachelor’s degree in Education, she spent five years teaching in Budapest, Hungary. Marta graduated from the UNC Paralegal Certificate program in 2017, where she is now an instructor.

Maritza Zuñiga

Case Manager

Maritza Zuñiga is a bilingual paralegal at Brown Immigration Law working in the North Carolina office since March 2018. She received her Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. Maritza also graduated from the UNC Paralegal Certificate program. She has worked as an immigration paralegal (primarily family-based immigration) for ten years. Maritza is fluent in Spanish and English and has studied French, Italian, and Portuguese.

Lindsey Kinderdine

Case Manager

Lindsey Kinderdine is a legal assistant working in our Cleveland office. She grew up in Kalamazoo, MI and is a graduate of The Ohio State University with a degree in International Studies and Spanish. During her time at university, she worked in the linguistics lab and completed an international research project on the sociopolitical discourse in Chilean media. Prior to starting with Brown Immigration Law in 2018, Lindsey lived and worked in Valparaíso, Chile as an ESL teacher for students aged 8-80.

Joanie Kaplan

Case Manager

Joanie Kaplan is a Paralegal at Brown Immigration Law and works from the firm’s Cleveland, Ohio office. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati where she obtained a BS in Education, Joanie has been working in the immigration law area (primarily employment-based immigration) for over 20 years.

Kelsey Sprenger

Case Manager

Kelsey Sprenger is a bilingual Legal Assistant at Brown Immigration Law who works in the firm’s Cleveland office. She received her bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University, where she studied Sociology; Spanish; and Peace, Justice, and Human Rights. While at JCU, Kelsey volunteered with Nepalese refugee children and Spanish-speaking immigrants, which prompted her to seek a career in immigration.

Sophia Cromwell

Legal Assistant

Sophia Cromwell is a legal assistant at Brown Immigration working in the Cleveland, Ohio office. She received her bachelor’s degree from John Carroll University in Cleveland, where she double majored in Political Science and Spanish and Hispanic Studies and was a member of the Sigma Delta Pi, the Spanish National Honor Society. Sophia also studied abroad in Madrid, Spain for a semester where she took International Relations courses at Comillas Pontifical University.

Nora Cuthbertson

Billing Administrator

Nora Cuthbertson is the Billing Administrator and works in the Cleveland, OH office. Nora graduated from John Carroll University in University Heights, OH with a major in Finance and a minor in Theology and Religious Studies. Before joining Brown Immigration Law in April 2018, Nora was a fulltime volunteer at Catholic Charities of Louisville in Louisville, KY working in ESL classes with refugees and immigrants.