Edain Butterfield was born in St. Louis, Missouri and grew up in southern Illinois. She graduated with a B.A. in Political Science and a B.A. in Music from the University of Colorado, Boulder in 2006. Edain obtained her Juris Doctorate in 2009 from Brooklyn Law School in Brooklyn, New York.
After law school, Edain lived and worked in New York City as an immigration attorney for 8 years...