Andrea Comfort Martinez is originally from Kansas City, Missouri. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from John Brown University (JBU) in May 2004 with a Bachelor’s degree in Cross-Cultural Services and an Associate’s degree in Broadcasting. Andrea began law school at Regent University School of Law right after graduating from JBU and then transferred to American University Washington College of Law in Washington DC where she graduated with her Juris Doctor degree in 2007. After law school, Andrea worked as a legal fellow in Guatemala assisting in the prosecution of child abusers with the Christian human rights organization International Justice Mission. She then moved back to Washington DC to clerk for the Honorable Judge Eric Bruggink at the U.S. Court of Federal Claims from 2008-2009.

After her federal judicial clerkship, Andrea began her work as an immigration attorney. She eventually moved back to her hometown of Kansas City, Missouri to open her own immigration law practice in 2016. Andrea has now been practicing immigration law for almost 15 years and has helped hundreds of immigrants obtain legal status in the United States. She focuses her law practice primarily on family-based immigration cases, removal defense, asylum, and humanitarian visas. Her law firm, Martinez Immigration Law, was featured in an Emmy-nominated docuseries called “Living Undocumented” in 2019 which was executive produced by Selena Gomez. Andrea is frequently interviewed by media outlets regarding immigration-related topics, including twice by CNN International.

Andrea married her JBU Walton Scholar husband Jorge Martinez in 2008 and they have two beautiful children together. Their son Cruz is 12-years-old and their daughter Ariella is 9. They live in Kansas City next door to Andrea’s parents, Mark and Mimi Comfort. Between the two homes, the Comforts and Martinezes have four spoiled doodle dogs who live their best lives running back and forth between the two houses eating each others’ dog food! =)