Professor Aldana Lends Expertise to UCLA-Colmex 'Bridging Borders' Event

On Aug. 22, Professor Raquel Aldana participated in a roundtable of experts organized by the UCLA Center for Immigration Law and Policy and El Colegio de México (Colmex) titled “Bridging Borders: Immigration Policy and Legal Perspectives on Migration Between the USA and Mexico.”

The workshop convened Mexican and U.S. scholars and other experts and stakeholders to identify ways to engage in transnational collaboration to improve the plight of migrants in Mexico.

Raquel E. Aldana joined UC Davis in 2017 to serve as the inaugural Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Diversity with a law faculty appointment. She returned to full-time law teaching in 2020. Aldana’s research has focused on transitional justice, criminal justice reforms and sustainable development in Latin America, as well as immigrant rights. Before UC Davis, Aldana was a professor of law at McGeorge School of Law, and the William S. Boyd School of Law, University of Nevada, Las Vegas. She served as associate dean for faculty scholarship at McGeorge from 2013-17. She is a graduate of Arizona State University and Harvard Law School.