Biography

Danicole Ramos ’23 is an Equal Justice Works Fellow and Immigrant Veterans Advocate at the Refugee and Immigration Law Clinic. Danicole focuses on providing immigration legal services to noncitizen veterans and servicemembers in Hawai’i, helping with naturalization, parole in place, family reunification, humanitarian parole for deported veterans, and removal defense.

Danicole is also a Captain in the Hawai‘i Air National Guard, serving as a Military Equal Opportunity Advisor. In that capacity, he works to ensure equal opportunity for and treatment of all service members by overseeing the complaint process and providing training on human relations and sexual harassment prevention.

During law school, he served as a summer law clerk and extern for The Legal Clinic. As a RILC clinical student, Danicole represented an asylum seeker in Immigration Court. He was also a legal extern for Honolulu City Councilmember Matt Weyer and worked as a Legislative Aide to State Representative Sean Quinlan.

Danicole received his B.A. in Business Administration and Management from Seattle University, his M.P.A. from American University, and his J.D. from the William S. Richardson School of Law. Before law school, Danicole was a policy analyst and lobbyist for Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor in climate technologies, and administrative coordinator for United We Dream, America’s largest immigrant youth-led network based in Washington, D.C.

He has also served as the board president of Faith Action Hawai‘i and vice president of the Young Democrats of Hawai‘i, and currently sits on the board of directors for Halau Nohana Hawai‘i, a Washington, D.C.-based Hawaiian cultural school.