Briceida Ortega

Briceida Ortega was born and raised in a small town in southwest Kansas. She made Indiana home after graduating from Valparaiso University Law School in 2016. Since a young age, Briceida knew she wanted to be an attorney that helped the disadvantaged. Whether it be due to financial difficulties, injuries, or a language barrier, she wanted to help those in need. Briceida found her love for litigation while in law school when she interned for the Indiana Federal Defenders, an organization that represents indigent defendants at a federal level, and then when she earned a spot on the law school’s...