Hillary Ronen, esq. Workers' Rights Co-Coordinator

Hillary joined La Raza Centro Legal in September 2003 after graduating from UC Berkeley's Boalt Hall Law School. She began work at La Raza as a fellow and created a popular education course for low-wage workers as well as a worker run legal clinic to recover unpaid wages of day laborers and domestic workers. In 2006 Hillary became La Raza's Worker's Rights Unit Coordinator and in that position continues to battle the bosses as a lawyer and organizer. Prior to joining La Raza, Hillary enjoyed suing governments and large corporations for committing human rights abuses. She worked on behalf of Haitian immigrants in the Dominican Republic at El Movimiento de Mujeres Dominico-Haitianas and on behalf of Nigerian and Burmese environmental activists and immigrants held in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba at the Center for Constitutional Rights.