Susana Aiga

Susanna Aiga is a senior associate at Sheikh/Impact, where she provides support to clients in areas including but not limited to public funding solicitation, prospect research, data analysis and communications.

Before joining Sheikh/Impact, Susanna worked for the leading U.S. Business Immigration law firm, Fragomen, Del Rey, Bernsen & Loewy, LLP as a paralegal/caseworker. In this capacity, she successfully processed a high volume of complex petitions and applications supporting foreign nationals seeking U.S. visa classification and immigration benefits for permanent residency. Her prior experience includes working with nonprofit organizations in the education and geriatric service fields. While at University of California, San Diego (UCSD), she wrote, edited and managed the public health column for UCSD’s medical literature society and worked with the Saltman, a quarterly UCSD publication featuring undergraduate biomedical research findings.

Susanna holds a bachelor’s degree in human developmental sciences — an interdisciplinary field focusing on the intersectionality of socio-cultural, cognitive and biological domains in affecting environmental, biological and behavioral growth/changes over the course of the human lifespan — from UCSD.