MAITTE BARRIENTOS BARONA
Senior Associate
Maitte Barrientos Barona joined Prada Dominguez, PLLC in June 2025. With a background in public interest law, Maitte represents vulnerable individuals in complex immigration proceedings including unaccompanied children, survivors of violence, victims of smuggling or human trafficking, individuals found incompetent to stand trial, and asylum seekers. From 2018 to 2024, Maitte supervised Florida’s Unaccompanied Refugee Minors Program; the only codified program in the Florida Statutes that provides designated refugee children with access to foster care, permanency, and the ability to obtain lawful status. Maitte began her legal career defending immigrants facing prolonged detention at the El Paso border before working with special immigrant juveniles in Boston and Virginia Beach. During law school, Maitte clerked for the Department of Justice’s Miami Immigration Court and served as the judicial intern for Honorable Judge Maria de Jesus Santovenia (Juvenile-Delinquency Division) in Miami.
Managing Editor for the St. Thomas University School of Law’s Intercultural Human Rights Law Review (2016) and brief writer for the International Moot Court (2016).
BAR ADMISSIONS
- Maitte is admitted to practice in the State of Florida and before the U.S. Southern District Court for the Southern District of Florida.
SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS
- 2025 - Florida International University’s College of Law Society's Immigration Panel Current State of Immigration Law. Miami, Florida
- 2024 - Acacia’s National Training on Legal Services for Non-Detained Adults, Families, and Children. Prosecutorial Discretion and Friend of the Court Panel. Washington, D.C.
Prada Dominguez, PLLC is dedicated to solving complex and novel immigration issues. We practice before the immigration agencies and the federal courts in order to fully serve our clientele.