- About The Attorney -

Makousse was born in the Ivory Coast and immigrated to the United States at a young age. She went on to earn Bachelor and Master degrees along with a Juris Doctor degree and has dedicated her career to public interest and is passionate about immigration law. Prior to opening her law practice, she was an Assistant District Attorney with the  Bronx District Attorney's office. During her tenure, she was a Gun Readiness Designation prosecutor in a trial bureau where she developed criminal litigation plans and strategies for felony indictments with an emphasis on firearms possession, burglaries, robberies, assaults and attempted murders. She conducted extensive legal research, drafted complex motions, affirmations and indictments. She further conducted grand jury presentations, and evidentiary hearings. In her role as prosecutor, she interviewed, prepared, and questioned witnesses through interviews, direct examinations, cross-examinations and proffers. 

 

Prior to her time at the Bronx District Attorney’s Office, she was an immigration attorney at Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP, in New York, one of the leading global immigration law firms. In that role, she specialized in immigrant visa petitions as well as employment-based nonimmigrant visas including H-1B, L-1A, L-1B, TN, EB-1 and O-1. 

 

Makousse is very familiar with the intricacies of both immigrant and non-immigrant cases. For over a decade, she has worked in the field and has helped hundreds of individuals and families successfully immigrate to the United States. She continued to perfect her craft in law school where she continued to study immigration law and took part in several clinics, including the Child Advocacy Clinic’s Unaccompanied Alien Children’s (UCA) Project where she, along with her team, contested undocumented children’s deportation, and sought legal remedies in the form of Special Immigrant Juvenile Status (SIJS) for the children to remain in the United States. 

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Makousse earned her Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University School of Law in New York, where she was a member of the Journal of Civil Rights and Economic Development. She also earned her Master of Arts degree in International Affairs from the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs (now the Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy) in New York. Her Bachelor of Arts degree in International Relations was conferred to her by Boston University. 

 

She is currently licensed to practice law in the state of New York .