Angela Vigil is a Partner and Executive Director of Global Pro Bono at the law firm of Baker McKenzie. Ms. Vigil's works spans the globe in different areas of social impact and public interest law. She specializes in children's law where she has an active practice in the representation of children in trial courts, appeals, human rights forums, and public policy. She is focused on reimagining child rights systems and policies and brings this focus to the many different types of social impact work the Firm does in child rights. Her human rights and public international law work for global pro bono clients of the Firm includes international advocacy on behalf of street-connected children and challenging the deprivation of liberty of children in systems worldwide. Locally, Angela has been focusing on the representation of foster youth, unaccompanied immigrant children, trafficking victims, and those deprived of liberty from around the nation and globe.

She has been a frequent speaker at national and international conferences on issues including the synergy between child rights and the rule of law and sustainable development goals, U.S. Supreme Court decision relevant to youth justice defenders at the Gault Center (formerly the National Juvenile Defender Center) Summit, sessions at the Pro Bono Institute’s national seminar, practical sessions at the Equal Justice Conference of the National Legal Aid and Defenders Association and the ABA, a human rights perspective on the legal needs of street-connected children at the International Summit on the Legal Needs of Street Children as well as other topics and organizations. She founded the Children’s Rights Summit that is now an annual event for in-house counsel and children’s advocates. She also helped lead the first-ever White House Hackathon on foster care and technology in 2016 and has continued the work started there in other technology developments around the country focusing on at risk and vulnerable children and youth.

She engages in trial advocacy training in many areas of public interest law as an active faculty member for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy and serves on the organization's board. She is also a board member for the Global Center for Cooperative Security, and a non-voting counsel to the board of the Campaign for the Fair Sentencing of Youth. Her past leadership includes efforts for the American Bar Association (ABA) in the Commission on Immigration, the Commission on Homelessness and Poverty and the Commission on Domestic and Sexual Violence. She currently serves on the Children's Rights Litigation Committee of the Section of Litigation and is advisory board member to the ABA Center for Human Rights. She sits on the International advisory committee for Making the Shift, a social innovation lab addressing youth homelessness. Past work includes service to the Legal Services Corporation (LSC), the single largest funder of civil legal aid for low-income Americans in the nation and a special advisor, board of the Florida Bar Foundation, and helped cofound the international professional development organization for pro bono counsel at law firms, the Association of Pro Bono Counsel and was a founding board member of the National Juvenile Defender Center. She is a proud wife and mother of four fantastic future changemakers in Miami, Florida.