Kelsea A. Carbajal earned her B.A. in Political Science and International Relations from San Francisco State University.

Following, her undergraduate studies, Ms. Carbajal went on to earn her law degree from Syracuse University College of Law and a Master’s in Public Administration from Syracuse University’s Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs. While at Syracuse, Ms. Carbajal participated in the Advocacy Honors Society, competed in various moot court and mock trial competitions, was an associate editor on the Impunity Watch Journal, and was a member of the Phi Alpha Delta Law Fraternity. Ms. Carbajal participated in the Veterans’ Legal Clinic, where she worked with veterans on obtaining benefits, including presenting arguments to the VA’s Board of Appeals in Washington, D.C. Ms. Carbajal was also a member of the Syrian Accountability Project, which documents crimes occurring throughout the Syrian Civil War. In her third year, Ms. Carbajal was the head of the Yazidi Project, within the Syrian Accountability Project, where she documented crimes committed by ISIS against the Yazidi People in Northern Iraq. Ms. Carbajal was also a contributing author to the White Paper “Report on the Yazidi Genocide.”

While in Law school, Ms. Carbajal worked for the Onondaga County Attorney’s office, where she assisted the county attorney in child removal cases, and the United States Attorney’s Office in the Northern District of New York, where she worked on various civil and criminal cases.

Following law school, Ms. Carbajal returned to the west coast completing a state court clerkship in Yerington, Nevada and then a federal court clerkship with the Eastern District of California. Ms. Carbajal then joined Kroloff in the Fall of 2022. Her practice is primarily centered around litigation, employment law, estate planning, and trust administration.