For the past 20 years, Starr has proudly called Garden City’s East End home, where she raised two children. Her son recently graduated from Idaho State University and now serves as a wildland firefighter with the BLM, following in his grandfather’s footsteps. Her daughter attends Vanderbilt University, double-majoring in computer science and business. Starr often says raising her family here and watching her children step into their own paths of success is one of her proudest accomplishments.

After graduating with honors from Virginia Commonwealth University studying Psychology, Sociology, and Spanish, Starr moved to Guatemala for a year and became fluent in Spanish while working in a cooperative assisting Mayan women recovering economically from the country’s 36-year civil war. That experience led her into immigration legal work, where she spent two decades as a senior paralegal and a U.S. Department of Justice Board of Immigration Appeals Accredited Representative. She built statewide programs supporting immigrant survivors of domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking, while also supervising legal teams, training attorneys and law enforcement officers, and advocating for stronger protections.