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Thomas Saenz is an experienced attorney and lecturer at Harvard Law School. He has a distinguished history with the Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund (MALDEF), serving as President and General Counsel since August 2009. In this role, he notably contributed to civil rights litigation, having successfully challenged California’s Proposition 187 and led numerous important cases in the areas of immigrant rights, education, employment, and voting rights. His efforts include significant victories in advocating for day laborers and leading an amicus brief in support of affirmative action in the Supreme Court case, Grutter v. Bollinger. Saenz has held influential positions, including serving as Counsel for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, where he was part of an executive team that provided legal policy advice and worked on legislative efforts aimed at reforming governance within the Los Angeles Unified School District. He is a widely published author and has a history of teaching Civil Rights Litigation as an adjunct lecturer at the University of Southern California (USC) Law School for eight years. His contributions to the legal field have been recognized with multiple awards, including the Peace and Justice Award from the Instituto de Educacion Popular del Sur de California and the Ohtli Award from the Hispanic National Bar Association.
Harvard Law School • Cambridge, MA
Mexican American Legal Defense Educational Fund (MALDEF) •
City of Los Angeles •
Applied for under 'Department of Law', 'Department of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law', 'Department of Constitutional Law', 'Department of Japanese Legal Studies', and 'Department of Human Rights'.