American Civil Liberties Union : Biography of Barbara Lopez

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Biography of Barbara Lopez (11/10/2004)

Before coming to the ACLU, Barbara "Bobbi" Lopez worked for three years at La Raza Centro Legal, where she coordinated the Youth Advocacy and Empowerment Project (YAEP), representing youth in administrative hearings, offering rights workshops to parents and youth, and encouraging overall youth development, specifically in the immigrant community. She also worked at the New York firm Weiss, Buell & Bell as a legal secretary and in college she orchestrated conferences for the ECCSF (East Coast Chicano/a Student Forum), a network of Latino/as attending East Coast schools. She attended Oberlin College, in Oberlin, Ohio where she studied Law and Society and digital arts. Ms. Lopez is an immigrant herself, born in Mexico City.

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