Tibrine da Fonseca

Tibrine da Fonseca is a paralegal at the Medical-Legal Partnership | Boston, focusing on housing and utilities. She coordinates training and education activities, staffs legal clinic and manages the intake referral system and triages case consults with the other paralegals. Ms. da Fonseca frequently trains frontline providers and other partners on the connection between health and utility access and how to advocate for their patients-families. Prior to joining MLP | Boston, she was an AmeriCorps Paralegal with Casa Myrna Vazquez Inc., a multicultural organization dedicated to ending domestic violence in Boston, MA. Ms. da Fonseca graduated from Simmons College with a Bachelors degree in International Relations and Spanish. She is fluent in Portuguese and Spanish.