Bio
Alexis Alvarez is a Staff Attorney with the Racial Justice Program, focusing mostly on reentry issues, including barriers to employment and housing. She previously completed an Equal Justice Works fellowship and an NYU Fellowship with the Racial Justice Program focusing on related issues, including occupational licensing reform, the criminalization of poverty, algorithmic bias, and disability discrimination. Previously, she served as a law clerk to U.S. District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos in the Southern District of New York. She graduated with honors from NYU School of Law as a Robert McKay Scholar in 2020, where she served as an editor on the Review of Law and Social Change, as President of the Latinx Law Students Association, and was a student advocate with the Reproductive Justice clinic. A true ACLU alum, she also previously interned for the ACLU's Criminal Law Reform Project, as well as LatinoJustice PRLDEF, working on a range of issues including asylum law, policing, and employment discrimination.