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My Story

Lawyering & Activism That Centers Community

I currently work as a staff attorney on a joint project, led by Prisoners' Legal Services and Massachusetts Law Reform Institute (MLRI), which is focused on supporting immigrants who find themselves incarcerated as civil detainees in our federal immigration detention system.

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Before becoming an attorney, I spent several years working with various community-based organizations, schools, and nonprofits. I am a member of the American Immigration Lawyers Association, Massachusetts Bar Association, and Boston Bar Association, and sit on the board of the local immigrants’ rights non-profit Centro Presente. I am a graduate of Boston University School of Law, Harvard University Graduate School of Education and Lehigh University.

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My passion for helping others extends far beyond my profession. I am the proud son of immigrants from Guatemala and have witnessed firsthand how the law, when built upon wrongful assumptions about certain communities, can harm individuals and families. Legal advocacy can certainly help reverse some of this damage and open new doors of opportunity, but the law is constantly operating within cultural, political, and economic systems that are harder to change.

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My goal is to use my professional and personal experiences to help educate, organize and motivate others to also fight for a country that is compassionate, communal and cognizant of its history.

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