Emily Jones

Adjunct Professor

Emily is the Legal Director at the New Americans Initiative (NAI). In addition to practicing law, Emily is a part-time instructor in the Political Science Department at the University of Kentucky teaching pre-law classes to undergraduates. She has also served as the supervisor of the Kentucky Refugee Ministries Externship at Rosenberg Law. Emily is an At Large Commissioner on the Mayor’s International Affairs Advisory Commission (MIAAC) in Lexington, Kentucky.  

Prior to immigration law, Emily practiced in foreclosure defense at Community Legal Aid in Worcester, Massachusetts. Emily graduated from the University of Kentucky with a B.A. in Political Science and French and holds a law degree from the University of Kentucky Rosenberg College of Law. Prior to joining NAI, Emily worked as the Senior Immigration Attorney at Kentucky Refugee Ministries (KRM) in Lexington. For over a decade, Emily has focused on the practice of humanitarian and family-based immigration law assisting thousands of clients with a variety of cases in front of US Citizenship and Immigration Services and the Executive Office of Immigration Review.