Elizabeth Hawkins is an independent consultant advising on US immigration and asylum law based in San Salvador. She recently co-authored Kneeling Before Corn: Recuperating More-Than-Human-Intimacies on the Salvadoran Milpa. As an ICWA Critchfield Fellow (El Salvador, 2019-2021), she studied motives behind emigration and asylum-seeking in the United States, with a focus on women who experienced gender-based violence. Previously, Elizabeth founded a humanitarian immigration law practice in Seattle. She receiced a BA from Whitman College in Walla Walla, Washington and graduated from the University of Washington's School of Law in 2010.