STAFF BIOGRAPHIES
YANINA TORANZA-VIERA
Yanina is a legal assistant who works on immigration, domestic relations, and other civil litigation cases. She regularly handles waivers, and assists clients in filing can-cellation of removal petitions based upon extremely unusual hardship to spouses and children. She grad-uated as a Professional Trilingual Secretary and com-pleted a Marketing Analyst career in Uruguay. Besides her native Spanish language, she fluently speaks, writes and reads English, French and Italian. Yanina enjoys working with her clients. yanina@tedhess.com
STEPHEN P. MORRIS II
Stephen is a legal assistant that works exclusively on immigration cases. He graduated from high school in Lancaster, Pennsylvania and then from a 2-year college in Tulsa, Oklahoma in 1998. He lived for 10 years in Central America in the 1980’s and early 90’s. Because of this background, he learned to read, write, and speak Spanish fluently, and he particularly enjoys helping Hispanics and Latinos with their immigration cases.
steve@tedhess.com
MIRIAM CEJA HERNANDEZ
Miriam is a legal assistant who handles criminal and personal injury cases. She grew up in the Roaring Fork Valley and graduated from Roaring Fork High School in 2005. She attended the University of Northern Colorado, where she graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology in 2009. She is fluent in Spanish and currently interprets for the firm’s Spanish radio show called Punto Legal on La Nueva Mix. miriam@tedhess.com
JENNY SINGLETON
Jenny is our Business Manager. She is responsible for accounts receivable, billing, collections and accounts payable. She relocated to the Roaring Fork Valley from Miami, Florida. She has an extensive background in bookkeeping and loves interacting with our clients and helping them find a payment plan that suits their needs. She was born in Cuba and speaks fluent Spanish. She loves to hang out with her family and enjoys the outdoors and the beautiful mountains of Colorado.
businessmanager@tedhess.com
ANGELICA VARELA OROZCO
Angelica is the firm's receptionist and front office coordinator. She is responsible for handling all mail and documents that come into the firm, scheduling and calendaring, notifying clients of critical events, and filing preliminary documents in criminal cases. She graduated from Eagle Valley High School in 2009 and has lived in the Eagle Valley for 18 years. She reads, writes, and speaks Spanish fluently. angelica@tedhess.com