Rosa Lee Bichell

Position: Staff Attorney
Email: rbichell@dralegal.org
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Rosa Lee “Rosie” Bichell joined Disability Rights Advocates in 2019 as a Justice Catalyst Fellow and became a Staff Attorney in 2021. At DRA, Rosie’s advocacy has addressed disability discrimination in immigration detention, voting, education, prisons, jails, and juvenile detention centers. This includes a disability and health justice suit challenging the rampant medical neglect, lack of mental health supports, use of solitary confinement, and general failure to meet the needs of people with disabilities across the immigration detention system, as well as multiple cases across several states seeking accessible absentee voting for voters with print disabilities.

Before joining DRA, Rosie received her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 2019 and her B.S. magna cum laude from the Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in 2015. During law school, she represented people seeking asylum and other forms of immigration relief as a legal intern at both the New York Legal Assistance Program and the Legal Aid Society of New York, and the Harvard Immigration and Refugee Clinic. She also interned at the Disability Law Center in Boston, where she researched and monitored the undue isolation of adults with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities in day programs. Rosie was also involved in research and advocacy projects in the Harvard Project on Disability, the Harvard Immigration Project, the Tenant Advocacy Project, and the Health Law and Policy Clinic.

Bar & Court Admissions:
State Bar of California
Colorado State Bar
9th Circuit Court of Appeals
United States District Court, Central District of California
United States District Court, Northern District of California
United States District Court, Eastern District of California