Christine Eschenfelder

Biography

Christine Eschenfelder is a current PhD student in Sociology at USU. She was admitted to the Utah Bar in 2008 and has been a practicing attorney since that time.

Christine’s research interests revolve around marginalized and vulnerable populations, migration and gender issues. Christine is currently focused on how policy changes in 2025 have impacted visa holders. Her legal practice focuses on employment-based immigration, including a multitude of non-immigrant or temporary work visas as well as immigrant or permanent, employment-based visas.

Christine earned her J.D. from the University of Utah’s S.J. Quinney College of Law, where she received the CALI Award in International Human Rights. During law school, she interned at the Immigration Court in Salt Lake City and was an active member of the Public Interest Law Organization. She also worked as a volunteer, preparing ‘Violence Against Women Act’ immigration petitions and asylum cases. Prior to law school, Christine graduated from the University of California, San Diego in International Studies, with a minor in Anthropology.

Outside of work and school, Christine tries to spend as much time outside as possible with her husband, two children, and three dogs.