Milca Altamirano is an employment associate at The Foster Group, PLLC. She was born and raised in Tucson, Arizona. From an early age, she wanted a career where she could utilize her skills to aid those who were discriminated against or unjustly treated. She earned her Bachelor’s degree in Gender & Womens’ Studies and minored in Spanish and Pre-Law at the University of Arizona. She earned her law degree at the University of Arizona, James E. Rogers College of Law.
While earning her law degree, she worked in the Workers’ Right Clinic, the Federal Public Defender’s Clinic, the Florence Immigrant and Refugee Rights Project, and Southern Arizona Legal Aid where she practiced her legal writing and research skills and learned to develop legal strategies that best represented the client’s goals and needs.