Citlalli Ochoa is Practitioner-in-Residence with the International Human Rights Law Clinic (IHRLC), a live client clinic where students represent clients in the U.S. immigration system and before international human rights monitoring bodies, and engage in transnational and international human rights policy advocacy projects. Professor Ochoa is particularly interested in the implementation of international human rights protections to prevent, stop, and remedy fundamental rights' violations in the United States.

Prior to joining the IHRLC, Professor Ochoa was an employment law staff attorney with Neighborhood Legal Services of Los Angeles County, where she provided holistic, community-based legal services to low-income workers. She has served as an Adjunct Professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles, where she designed and taught a Workers’ Rights Clinic. Professor Ochoa began her legal career as a fellow and then staff attorney with the International Justice Resource Center, conducting advocacy to advance the expansive interpretation of human rights law and ensure the transparent and independent functioning of human rights oversight bodies. She has also externed at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights with the Office of the Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression.

Professor Ochoa holds a J.D. from University of California, Irvine School of Law and a B.A. in Political Science/International Relations from University of California, Santa Barbara. She is a member of the California Bar.