Angela DeSaracho

I've been in the legal sector for over 16 years, and I've always held administrative roles throughout my career. I started at the university and academia level, then moved into the legal sector where I was a trial paralegal. From there, I worked my way up into legal operations and then into the quality assurance division. I'm currently the Senior Director of Quality Assurance at a national defense firm. I've been in this role for about 5 years and with the company for about 8 years. My day-to-day involves overseeing the quality assurance department, which has 4 different divisions. We're really focusing on client intelligence, compliance, auditing, and risk mitigation. Throughout my career, I think the amount of folks that I've been able to train and mentor along the way has been one of my proudest moments. I've held a lot of positions in the nonprofit sector in my free time. I was the past president of the Paralegal Association for 2 years, and I've done a few keynotes. Just being able to impact others and advocate and fight for justice for our clients, or any individuals that are underrepresented in the legal system, that's been probably the biggest highlight for me. I studied philosophy with an emphasis on law, and that's what I graduated into. I knew that I wanted to do something that was pursuing justice or knowledge or just information, but I didn't know that it was going to lead me to the legal field. I'm very grateful for it, though.