Cecilia Abundis DePaul University College of Law, 2004
Stanford Law School, 2003 As a 3L, Vanessa co-chaired the 2006 NLLSAC at Stanford, bringing together judges, policy-makers and, of course law students, from around the nation. Since law school, she has litigated with Morrison & Foerster, represented farmworkers in housing, labor, education and health matters with California Rural Legal Assistance, Inc. and currently focusses her practice on immigration representation with a boutique law firm based in Oxnard, California, Nava & Gomez, Attorneys at Law. She is quite proud of the way students have continued to devote their energy and best efforts to sustaining and growing the National Latino/Latina Law Student Association and seeks to be a resource to students, from grade school through law school as they work to achieve their dreams. Marc-Tizoc González U.C. Berkeley School of Law (Boalt Hall), 2005 Marc-Tizoc González is a staff attorney at the Alameda County Homeless Action Center and lectures for U.C. Berkeley's Chicano Studies Program and San Francisco State University’s Raza Studies Department. His law practice focuses on representing poor people disabled by severe mental conditions in their claims for Social Security disability benefits. He also provides citation defense for so-called “quality of life” infractions and engages local policy advocacy against the criminalization of poverty and homelessness. His previous work involved support of high impact affordable housing litigation, plaintiffs’ asbestos litigation, claims for workers’ compensation, small business litigation and trust accounting. Marc-Tizoc graduated from Berkeley Law in 2005 and earned a M.A. in Interdisciplinary Social Science from SF State in 2002. Before law school, he worked in mental health with youth in Los Angeles, San Mateo, San Francisco and Alameda counties—after earning his B.A. in Psychology from U.C. Davis in 1996. Marc-Tizoc is active in several professional organizations: he is a director of LatCrit, Inc. (the organization of Latina & Latino Critical Legal Theory) and the National Lawyers Guild – SF Bay Area Chapter. He serves as treasurer for the East Bay La Raza Lawyers Association and is a director and the yearlong grants co-chair of the Berkeley Law Foundation. He was a founding chapter delegate and the inaugural attorney general of the National Latina/o Law Student Association and co-founded the NLLSA Alumni Association. Marc-Tizoc was born and raised in Sacramento, California to Chicana/o activists who raised him to engage the intergenerational struggle for social justice. He lives in Oakland, CA with his wife of ten years, Naomi González marctizoc@yahoo.com Antonio "Moe" Maestas University of New Mexico School of Law, 1998 Moe is a member of the NM House of Representatives representing Albuquerque’s growing west side. As a freshman lawmaker, Moe successfully sponsored a bill mandating all NM high schools to offer a semester course on financial literacy. Moe gained tremendous leadership skills while working as a community organizer at El Centro de la Raza, Seattle’s premier civil rights organization. Moe received his B.A. from the University of Washington where he studied political economy and his J.D. from the UNM School of Law. As a law student, he co-founded of the National Latina/o Law Student Conference, which continues to bring together hundreds a future Latina/o lawyers each October. Moe then served for five years as an Assistant District Attorney prosecuting DWI and domestic violence cases. He now manages the MoeJustice Law Office focusing on criminal and personal injury law. antonio@moejustice.com (505) 242-2279 Michelle R. Martinez University of Denver Sturm College of Law, 2005 Norma Nava University of Los Angeles, School of Law Norma Nava is a fellow with the ACLU's Drug Law Reform Project. Norma recently served as a law clerk for the Honorable Oliver W. Wanger, U.S. District Court in the Eastern District of California. Norma graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law where she was the Co-Chair of La Raza Law Students Association, Managing Editor of the Chicano/Latino Law Review, and served as the Chair of the inaugural board of the National Latina/o Law Students Association. Norma has dedicated her academic and professional career to assisting under- privileged communities and communities of color. During law school, Norma was a Hewlett Foundation / American Bar Association Environmental Justice Fellow. Through this fellowship, Norma worked with the California Environmental Rights Alliance ("CERA") on litigation projects brought on behalf of communities of color against major stationary source polluters in the Los Angeles basin. She also was a participant in UCLA's Native Nation's Law and Policy Program where she served as a clerk for the Hopi Indian Tribal Appellate Court Project. She assisted the Tule River Indian tribe in drafting a vital land assignment ordinance. She also assisted the Council on Native Hawaiian Advancement by conducting legal research regarding tribal and environmental sovereignty. Norma is the proud daughter of Mexican immigrants and was born and raised in East Los Angeles, California. She was the first person in her family to attain a college degree and Juris Doctor. Norma received her B.A. in Political Science and Sociology from the University of California, Los Angeles. Raymundo Eli Rojas University of Kansas School of Law, 2005 Raymundo Elí Rojas, J.D., is a long-time labor and immigrant advocate and current Executive Director of Las Americas Immigrant Advocacy Center in El Paso. He was the founder of the non-profit Kansas City Worker Justice Project, of which he served as director until June 1, 2007. A son of immigrant sheetmetal workers from Torreon, Coahuila, Mexico, Rojas is a native of El Paso, Rojas’ professional background includes employment with the Farmworker Project of Colorado Legal Services; the Farmworker Project of Legal Aid of Western Missouri; Upward Bound; as well as law firms in Washington, D.C. and Kansas City. He has earned peer recognition and awards, including the 2006 Del Corazón Award for Outstanding Service to the Kansas City Latino Community. He has a B.A. in Anthropology from the University of Texas at El Paso and a juris doctorate from the University of Kansas School of Law. Rojas also published Pluma fronteriza a publication dedicated to Chicano(a) and Latino(a) writers from the El Paso-Cd. Juárez region, and Libros, Libros: What’s new in Chicano(a) and Latino(a) Literature Michael Davis Velasco University of New Mexico School of Law, 1998 Brenda Williams University of Washington School of Law, 1997 brendawilliams999@gmail.com |
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