Giancarla Sambo, Esq., LL.M.

Giancarla's path to law ran through the airwaves. She began her media career in New York at WSKQ-FM 97.9—La Mega, New York's number-one Spanish-language radio station —and advanced from production to on-air reporting.

She represented her community as Miss Puerto Rico, Queen of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade. The following year, she was named Miss San Juan Universe and placed in the top 10 at the Miss Puerto Rico Universe Competition.

After her tenure as titleholder, Giancarla founded the Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Organization and held the official Miss America state license for Puerto Rico. From 2009 to 2017, Giancarla held the Miss America license for Puerto Rico and served as Executive Director, President, and General Counsel of the Miss Puerto Rico Scholarship Organization, which she founded to run the program. She managed its legal, financial, and operational affairs, and the Miss America Organization renewed the license three consecutive times, in 2011, 2013, and 2015.

Those experiences taught her what a law degree alone cannot: how to read a room, how to represent a brand under public scrutiny, and what it feels like to be the talent whose name is on the contract. That's why her tagline isn't a marketing line. 

EDUCATION:

LL.M. — Entertainment & New Media Law
Loyola Law School, Los Angeles

J.D. — Concentration in Contracts
Inter American University School of Law

M.A. — Broadcast Journalism
New York University

B.A. — Communications & Sociology
Fordham University · Minor: Latin American Studies

Fashion Law Summer Intensive Program
Fordham Law School

ADMISSIONS:

• New York 
• District of Columbia (inactive; eligible to reactivate)
• Commonwealth of Puerto Rico (Attorney & Notary Bars)
• U.S. Supreme Court
• U.S. Court of Appeals, Ninth Circuit