Ana Builes
Ana is an appellate counsel at the Constitutional Accountability Center. She joined the CAC after clerking for Judge Catharine Easterly on the D.C. Court of Appeals and Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers of the Northern District of California. Ana graduated from Georgetown University Law Center, where she was one of eight students in her class awarded the full-tuition Blume Public Interest Scholarship. During law school, Ana completed over three hundred hours of pro bono service, many of them co-leading trips to the border to provide asylum seekers with legal services. She worked for a wide range of organizations advocating for the public good, including Gupta Wessler LLP, the Civil Rights Corp, the Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection, and Pangea Legal Services. As a member of the Appellate Courts Immersion Clinic, Ana worked on public interest appeals in the Third, Tenth, and Eleventh Circuits. She also interned for Judge Amit Mehta on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
Prior to law school, Ana worked on various campaigns, as a legislative assistant for U.S. Congressman Lloyd Doggett, and as an investigator for the Public Defender Service of D.C. Ana received her undergraduate degree from Rice University, where she was awarded the Zeff Fellowship, a one-year grant for independent exploration outside of the U.S. She spent the year exploring coffee, from bean to brew, in twenty countries across the globe.