Mr. Fernando E. Rojas is an immigration attorney with more than two decades of experience in employment- and family-based petitions. He is a Partner at J. David Pena & Associates, a boutique immigration firm in Coral Gables, Florida, where he handles matters including extraordinary ability petitions, national interest waivers, investor visas, and naturalization applications. He represents clients in Immigration Court and before U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and he drafts appellate briefs for the Board of Immigration Appeals.

Mr. Rojas began his career as a Graduate Attorney at the Legal Assistance Foundation of Chicago and later served as a Staff Attorney at Centro Legal, Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota, and at the Florida Immigrant Advocacy Center in Miami. There, he represented low-income immigrants in asylum and criminal waiver cases and led community legal education initiatives.

He earned his J.D. in 1999 from Northwestern University School of Law (now Northwestern Pritzker School of Law), where he was a Justice John Paul Stevens Public Interest Fellow, an Associate Editor of the Law Review, and President of the Latino Law Student Association. He currently chairs the law school’s Latino Alumni Affinity Group.

He received his B.A. in International Relations from Brown University in 1992, where he earned the Center for Public Service Fellowship and the Award for Service to the Brown University Community. Before law school, he taught history to language-minority students as a bilingual social studies teacher in Providence, Rhode Island. An avid runner, he has completed several ultramarathons.