Ashley Sanchez joined the Notre Dame Law faculty in 2025 as an associate clinical professor of law and director of the Immigration Law Clinic. Most recently, she served as Supervising Attorney at Catholic Charities Immigration Legal Services in Cleveland, Ohio. At Catholic Charities, Sanchez led a team representing clients in a wide variety of humanitarian immigration matters. Prior to Catholic Charities, she worked at Jones Day as an associate in the Mergers and Acquisitions practice group and participated in the firm's Laredo Project at the U.S.-Mexico Border. Sanchez is the first member of her family to become a lawyer. She is a graduate of UC Berkeley Law, where she earned certificates of specialization in International Law and Social Justice. At Berkeley Law, she participated in the Immigration Clinic at the East Bay Community Law Center and co-coordinated the student-led California Asylum Representation Clinic. An Ohio native, Sanchez graduated magna cum laude from Ohio University, with dual B.A. degrees in Spanish and International Studies. Sanchez studied abroad in Guanajuato, Mexico and Toledo, Spain as an undergraduate. She is fluent in Spanish.