Karina Marini-Lieben, MSW

Karina Marini-Lieben, MSW is a clinical social worker. Karina has worked at the Craniofacial Center at UCSF Benioff Children's Hospital in San Francisco since 2012. She earned her master's degree in Social Work Administration at the University of Chicago in 2001. While there, she received the Elinor Nims Brink Fellowship, which is a master's specialization focused on family support. Karina is originally from Honduras, where she earned a law degree in Labor Law prior to becoming a Social Worker. 

Since arriving to the U.S. in 1996, Karina has devoted her life to serving the immigrant community, among others. When she first arrived in the Bay Area, she worked at the Detained Immigrant Children's Project at Legal Services for Children, which provides legal screening and "Know your Rights" presentations to youth who are detained by immigration authorities and represents children and youth who are eligible for certain kinds of relief in removal proceedings before the San Francisco Immigration Court.