Sigrid Irias

Sigrid is a San Francisco native and first generation Nicaraguan-American whose father’s family immigrated to the Mission District from Managua during the 1940s. Her mother was the oldest of six children of a San Francisco cop, and also grew up in the Mission. Sigrid learned Spanish thanks to her grandparents’ close proximity on Ulloa Street while she was growing up, and her father’s dedication to the endeavor, which included sending her and her younger brother to live with relatives in Latin America as kids.

Sigrid was the first in her family to attend law school. She worked her way through UC Berkeley and Hastings College of the Law as a single parent, by working at jobs ranging from seamstress to law clerk. She has appreciated the support of a variety of mentors over the years, and is committed to “paying it forward” to law students who are the first in their family to attend law school, or who face unusual economic or circumstantial challenges as they work to become attorneys.

Her participation in San Francisco La Raza Lawyers Association has included service on the mentorship committee, on the scholarship committee, as its Vice President of Membership, and as the organization’s General Counsel.

Sigrid works with the Sedgwick office in San Francisco, doing litigation and trial work. From 2007 through 2011, when the last concluded via a grant of administrative closure, she handled several pro bono immigration cases for the firm, representing unaccompanied children from Latin America in proceedings pending in the immigration court in San Francisco.

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