Genevra Alberti, Esq.

Before joining Martinez Immigration Law in 2025, Genevra worked for 13 years as the sole dedicated attorney at The Clinic at Sharma-Crawford Attorneys at Law, a nonprofit where she focused her practice on representing individuals facing removal proceedings in the Kansas City Immigration Court. She has handled a wide array of complex and nuanced immigration cases, and argued a case in front of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit. At Martinez Immigration, she has expanded her practice to also include affirmative family and humanitarian petitions and naturalization applications, in addition to removal (deportation) defense.

Genevra grew up in North Carolina. She graduated with honors from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2005 and was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa. After spending three years working in New York City as a paralegal and traveling, Genevra attended law school at Washington University in St. Louis, graduating cum laude in May 2011.

Even during law school, Genevra was able to obtain experience in immigration law, working for an immigration firm in St. Louis, Missouri, and later interning for the European Council on Refugees and Exiles (ECRE) in Brussels, Belgium.

Genevra regularly presents on a variety of immigration-related topics at national and local immigration conferences, teaches courtroom skills to other immigration attorneys at conferences annually, and provides Know Your Rights presentations in the community. She is a contributing author to the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) Litigation Toolbox, 5th Ed. (2016) and 6th Ed. (2019).

Genevra is a member of AILA, with which she remains deeply involved. She served as Chair of the Missouri-Kansas AILA Chapter from May 2023 to May 2025, and has been serving as one of the Chapter’s liaisons to the immigration court for several years.

Areas Of Practice

Admitted To Practice

• Missouri, 2011
• Kansas, 2012
• Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals, 2017
• U.S. Supreme Court, 2019

Education

• J.D., Washington University in St. Louis School of Law, cum laude, May 2011
• B.A., Psychology and Italian Language, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, with distinction, May 2005

Recent Awards, Distinctions & Service

• 2024 recipient of the American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) President’s Commendation
• 2019-2023 Super Lawyers® Missouri & Kansas Rising Star; 2024-2025 Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers®
• 2020 & 2022 AILA Missouri-Kansas Chapter Pro Bono Champion
• AILA Missouri-Kansas Chapter Executive Committee:
• 2023-2025: Chair
• 2022-2023: Chair-Elect
• 2013-2015 & 2019-2022: Vice Chair
• 2025-2026 Chair of the Removal/Litigation Track Planning Committee for the 2026 AILA Annual Conference
• 2024 AILA National Nominating Committee
• 2020-Present: AILA Missouri-Kansas Chapter Executive Office for Immigration Review (EOIR) Liaison Committee
• 2022-2023 AILA National EOIR Liaison Committee member
• 2013-2022: AILA Missouri-Kansas Chapter Pro Bono Committee