Ionela Sierra is the founder, owner, and managing attorney at Sierra Ambrosio Law Firm. She focuses her practice on asylum cases, removal work, family-based immigration, provisional waivers, consular processing, and humanitarian cases, including U visas, VAWA, and special immigrant juvenile cases.

She serves as the volunteer coordinator attorney for the Faith and Justice Alliance, organizing quarterly pro bono legal clinics in Rutherford County, TN. She has also served as the AILA Midsouth asylum liaison for the New Orleans Asylum Office since 2023.

Originally from Romania, Ionela earned a Juris Degree from the University of Bucharest and an LL.M. from Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN. She speaks English, Spanish, and Romanian fluently. Licensed to practice law in 2015, she was admitted to the Middle District Court of Tennessee in 2023 and is an active member of the Tennessee Bar Association (TBA) and the National Immigration Project.

Ionela and her husband volunteer as leaders of the Latino Ministry at Bethel Community Church in Murfreesboro, TN. They have five children and one dog