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Rachel is one of ILRC’s staff attorneys based in San Francisco. Rachel focuses on immigrant youth issues, including unaccompanied minors and immigrant youth in the juvenile justice and child welfare systems. Rachel provides technical assistance and trainings to immigration and state court attorneys, social workers, and judges. She works on statewide and national policy that affects the rights of immigrant youth and is frequently consulted for her expertise in Special Immigrant Juvenile Status. Rachel co-authored the ILRC’s publication Special Immigrant Juvenile Status and Other Immigration Options for Children and Youth.

Prior to joining the ILRC, Rachel represented detained and released unaccompanied minors in removal defense and led a project focusing on Special Immigrant Juvenile Status at Esperanza Immigrant Rights Project in Los Angeles. While at Esperanza, Rachel also performed "Know Your Rights" work in southern California immigration detention centers for minors. Previously, Rachel worked as an associate at Paul Hastings, LLP and volunteered as a Child Advocate for unaccompanied minors.

Rachel earned her law degree from the University of California at Davis, where she was a member of the Immigration Law Clinic and worked on complex deportation defense cases and detention issues. She received her undergraduate degree from Westmont College, where she double-majored in philosophy and political science. Rachel is admitted to the bar in California. She is conversant in Spanish.

Miosotti joined the ILRC September 2024 as a Staff Attorney focusing on immigrant youth and immigration enforcement issues. She is based in San Francisco, CA. Prior to joining ILRC, she was an associate attorney at Van Der Hout LLP and focused on affirmative and removal defense immigration matters. Prior to Van Der Hout LLP, she was an asylum officer at the USCIS San Francisco Asylum Office. At the asylum office, Miosotti adjudicated affirmative asylum applications, and credible and reasonable fear determinations.  

Miosotti began her legal career at the non-profit, Community Legal Services in East Palo Alto (CLSEPA). At CLSEPA, Miosotti focused on both affirmative and removal defense immigration cases that included asylum, Special Immigrant Juvenile Status, U visas, T visas, and other humanitarian forms of relief.

Prior to beginning her legal career, at Boston University School of Law as a public interest scholarship recipient, Miosotti participated in the International Human Rights clinic, completed a 6-month semester-in-practice externship with the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) in the Dominican Republic, interned at the Bronx District Attorney’s office, and was a judicial intern at the United States District Court for Eastern District of New York.  

Prior to attending law school, Miosotti worked at various non-profits/agencies advocating for human rights, such as Sanctuary for Families and the Permanent Mission of the Principality of Andorra to the United Nations.

Miosotti has a bachelor’s degree in accounting from Fordham University, a Master of Arts degree in international studies from Concordia University-Irvine, and a law degree from Boston University School of Law. She is a member of the California bar and is admitted to practice before the United States District Court for the Northern District of California. She is fluent in Spanish.