Events

Martin Luther King Jr. Professor of Law Raquel Aldana was the inaugural UC Davis Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity and served on the task force that helped UC Davis become a Hispanic Serving Institution. Aldana has led multiple research projects and programs around gender violence, transitional justice, criminal justice, sustainable development, immigrant justice, and immigrant trauma. She has authored or edited five books and published over thirty law review articles or book chapters on transitional justice, criminal justice, sustainable development, inter-cultural legal sensibility, and immigration.

Amagda Pérez ’91 is Co-Director of the UC Davis School of Law Immigration Law Clinic and Executive Director of the California Rural Legal Assistance Foundation, a non-profit legal service and advocacy organization that champions the rights of California’s rural poor. At King Hall, she supervises second- and third-year law students as they prepare deportation defense cases. She served on the UC Davis AB540 Task Force on Unauthorized Immigrant Students and has chaired the Legal Aid Association of California.

Giselle Garcia ’23 is a former Aoki Center fellow. She currently serves as Programs Director at NorCal Resist, the immigration rapid response network for 25 counties in Northern California. The network is composed of hundreds of volunteers and community partner organizations from Sacramento to the Oregon border who are trained in best practices to observe, document, and triage people who are detained by ICE into support services, as well as to provide pro se assistance for various immigration petitions and motions in an attempt to address the dearth of accessible immigration legal services.

Aidín Castillo Mazantini ’11 is Executive Director of the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center (UCIMM), which provides free immigration legal services to undocumented UC students and students’ families. She was previously Director of the Immigrants’ Rights Practice at Centro Legal de la Raza, one of the largest removal defense programs in California. Prior to that, she was in charge of launching the Immigrant Legal Resource Center’s national immigration policy office in Washington, DC. She is a founding member of SPEAK, one of the first undocumented student groups for college students.