Celina Cabán Gandhi
Founder & Director

Celina Cabán Gandhi is the Founder and Director of the Sotomayor Program. Ms. Cabán Gandhi is currently a staff attorney with Manhattan Legal Services. She was formerly an agency attorney with the Trial Division of the New York City Police Department, clerked with Honorable Denny Chin in the Second Circuit Court of Appeals, and clerked with Honorable Wendel E. Daniels, Presiding Judge of the Criminal Division in Ocean County, New Jersey. In 2008, Ms. Cabán Gandhi graduated from Barnard College of Columbia University majoring in Economic History and minoring in Latin American Studies. In 2014, she graduated from CUNY School of Law, where she participated in Moot Court and served as Special Events Editor for the Law Review.  Ms. Cabán Gandhi was a 2012 Puerto Rican Bar Association Student Scholar, as well as a 2013 Ms. JD Fellow. She is also the recipient of the Puerto Rican Bar Association’s 2014 Flor de Maga Award.  In February of 2019, Ms. Cabán Gandhi received the Ms. JD Women of Inspiration Award for her role as Founder of the Sotomayor Program.