Hannah Croucher has various expertise in international law and U.S. immigration law, with a focused interest in the MENA region and Islamic countries. She has a Bachelor’s Degree in Philanthropic Studies from the IU Lilly Family School of Philanthropy and her first experience in international human rights was with OBAT Helpers when she traveled with a small cohort to Bangladesh in May 2014.

From there, she attended law school and graduated from IU McKinney Law in 2019 with a Juris Doctor (JD). During her time at McKinney, she received the Program in International Human Rights Law Internship Scholarship providing her the opportunity to live in Casablanca and Rabat, Morocco in 2017 where she worked with organizations in researching and writing project proposals to the EU for women’s rights and
empowerment and combating underage child marriage, and provided support, research, and writing for asylum appeals. In 2018, she was the only student to receive the Michael and Nancie Freeborn Civil and Human Rights Fellowship where she moved to Chios, Greece, and worked as a Legal Team Member with Advocates Abroad where she demonstrated expert knowledge of EU law by supporting refugees on diverse legal issues, focusing on interview preparations, providing information about asylum procedures and EU law, and preparing refugees for asylum interviews.

In 2019, she became a Fulbright Specialist and moved to Doha, Qatar, where she worked with Qatar University College of Law by helping facilitate the establishment, organization, and maintenance of partnerships by engaging national, regional, and international stakeholders in partnership and support of the Clinic, and spear-headed various projects regarding the rights of the elderly, small- and medium-sized commercial enterprises, and migration.

Hannah has worked in U.S. immigration law since 2017 with tremendous experience in employment-based nonimmigrant and immigrant visas, such as asylum, individual and family-based immigration, H-1B Amendments/Extensions/Transfers, H-4 and H-4 EAD, PERM, EB-2, and EB-3 I-140 petitions, H-2B, P, and O. Currently, she is studying to take the Indiana bar exam and work with a small conglomerate of tech and healthcare companies in-house as their Immigration Specialist where she mainly focuses on H-1B’s for Indian nationals.