Lilia Salazar Velasquez is the Flame of Justice. She has a license plate on her car that says so. She has hundreds of clients in her immigration and human rights practice that will tell you so. The San Diego and Tijuana media, in which she appears seemingly daily, call her so. She is the Flame of Justice

Professor Velasquez received her LL.M. degree from the University of San Diego, School of Law, her J.D. degree from the California Western School of Law, and her B.S. degree from San Diego State University. She has had her own private law firm specializing in immigration since 1985.

La Flama has been recognized as one of the best attorneys in San Diego in immigration law by the San Diego Union Tribune and been lauded for her human rights work by California Lawyer magazine and other lawyering periodicals. She consults for women's advocacy groups, the Mexican government, the U.S. State Department and various international agencies.

Professor Velasquez develop materials for and leads workshops in Oral Advocacy, Media Advocacy and Cross-Cultural Negotiation with Proyecto ACCESO. She also directs the Indigenous Project of ACCESO.

Professor Velasquez is featured regularly on national and international news programs, including ABC World New Tonight, National Public Radio, Univision and Fox News. She teaches at California Western School of Law and lectures regularly to jurists, law enforcement officials, bar associations, community activists