Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado
Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado is a human rights activist, author, filmmaker, attorney, and public speaker. Born in Douglas, AZ, Ybarra Maldonado's mother was born just a few miles to the south in the town of Agua Prieta, Sonora.
As a lawyer, Ybarra Maldonado is an aggressive trial attorney who has attained not guilty verdicts for immigrants in both state and federal courts. He is currently co-counsel in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio alongside the ACLU, National Day Labor Organizing Network, and the UC Irving Workers' Rights Clinic. He also represents immigrants in removal proceedings throughout Arizona.
Ybarra Maldonado, who co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary, "Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border," was instrumental in bringing about a major civil rights lawsuit against one of the vigilantes, and created and coordinated the Legal Observer Project during the Minutemen's operations. He has trained hundreds of volunteers and spent months following the Minutemen as they patrolled along the U.S.-Mexico Divide. His book, "Born on the Border: Minutemen Vigilantes, Origins of Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Movement, and a Call for Increased Civil Disobedience" has been a required reading in classes across the country, including at Harvard Law School.
Ybarra Maldonado has written about and given numerous talks on vigilantism, the militarization of the border and the growing immigrant's rights movement at numerous universities including Stanford, Harvard, University of California at Berkeley, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and to community groups from Washington to Iowa. In addition to receiving awards for his commitment to social justice, Ybarra Maldonado has testified in front of local and state bodies as well as having his work quoted at the United Nations. Ybarra Maldonado is frequently quoted in both the national and international media and his work has been profiled in the Intelligence Report, Stanford Lawyer, and in a documentary that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, entitled 'Crossing Arizona.'
Ybarra Maldonado attended Cochise Community College in Douglas, AZ and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2002 with a degree in Religious Studies and from Stanford Law School in 2007. He has previously worked for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and was a proud public defender in Cochise County and with the Federal Public Defender's Office in Tucson, AZ.
As a lawyer, Ybarra Maldonado is an aggressive trial attorney who has attained not guilty verdicts for immigrants in both state and federal courts. He is currently co-counsel in a federal civil rights lawsuit against the notorious Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio alongside the ACLU, National Day Labor Organizing Network, and the UC Irving Workers' Rights Clinic. He also represents immigrants in removal proceedings throughout Arizona.
Ybarra Maldonado, who co-wrote and co-produced the award-winning documentary, "Rights on the Line: Vigilantes at the Border," was instrumental in bringing about a major civil rights lawsuit against one of the vigilantes, and created and coordinated the Legal Observer Project during the Minutemen's operations. He has trained hundreds of volunteers and spent months following the Minutemen as they patrolled along the U.S.-Mexico Divide. His book, "Born on the Border: Minutemen Vigilantes, Origins of Arizona's Anti-Immigrant Movement, and a Call for Increased Civil Disobedience" has been a required reading in classes across the country, including at Harvard Law School.
Ybarra Maldonado has written about and given numerous talks on vigilantism, the militarization of the border and the growing immigrant's rights movement at numerous universities including Stanford, Harvard, University of California at Berkeley, and the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México and to community groups from Washington to Iowa. In addition to receiving awards for his commitment to social justice, Ybarra Maldonado has testified in front of local and state bodies as well as having his work quoted at the United Nations. Ybarra Maldonado is frequently quoted in both the national and international media and his work has been profiled in the Intelligence Report, Stanford Lawyer, and in a documentary that premiered at the 2006 Sundance Film Festival, entitled 'Crossing Arizona.'
Ybarra Maldonado attended Cochise Community College in Douglas, AZ and graduated Summa Cum Laude from Arizona State University in 2002 with a degree in Religious Studies and from Stanford Law School in 2007. He has previously worked for the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO, American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU), and was a proud public defender in Cochise County and with the Federal Public Defender's Office in Tucson, AZ.
Dr. Angeles J. Maldonado
Dr. Angeles J. Maldonado has a PhD in Education Leadership and Policy Studies from Arizona State University, with a specialization in Social and Philosophical Foundations. Her research areas of interest are Immigration, Critical Race Theory, Border Crit Theory, Critical Pedagogy in Education, Community Organizing, and Social Movements. Dr. Maldonado holds a Bachelor of Science in Justice Studies with a Minor in Philosophy and a Master’s degree in Public Administration.
For the past eleven years Dr. Maldonado has been closely involved in the immigrant rights movement in Arizona. Her interest in immigration stems from her own background. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, her family immigrated to Phoenix in the summer of 1988 in pursuit of realizing the "American Dream." Her parents' greatest goal was to be able to provide for their children greater educational opportunities not available to them in the small town of Salvatierra.
Prior to finishing her doctoral studies, Dr. Maldonado worked as a community and labor organizer for a variety of nonprofit and labor organizations. Her experiences in grassroots organizing served as an inspiration for her dissertation "Raids, Race, and Resistance: Narratives and Discourse in the Immigration Movement in Arizona."
Dr. Maldonado spent many hours organizing protests against Sheriff Arpaio while working for the grassroots organization Tonatierra. Dr. Maldonado also worked for the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW Local 99), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 5), for Mi Familia Vota / My Family Votes Civic Participation Campaign, and as the Program Director for La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) (a branch of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO), for Chicanos Por La Causa, and for PUEBLO Center for Legal & Human Rights.
Currently, Dr. Maldonado serves on the Community Advisory Board in the Ortega Melendres vs. Arpaio federal racial profiling case. She is the Operations Director for the Law Office of Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado and a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband Ray Ybarra Maldonado and their son Ray Emerson.
For the past eleven years Dr. Maldonado has been closely involved in the immigrant rights movement in Arizona. Her interest in immigration stems from her own background. Born in Guanajuato, Mexico, her family immigrated to Phoenix in the summer of 1988 in pursuit of realizing the "American Dream." Her parents' greatest goal was to be able to provide for their children greater educational opportunities not available to them in the small town of Salvatierra.
Prior to finishing her doctoral studies, Dr. Maldonado worked as a community and labor organizer for a variety of nonprofit and labor organizations. Her experiences in grassroots organizing served as an inspiration for her dissertation "Raids, Race, and Resistance: Narratives and Discourse in the Immigration Movement in Arizona."
Dr. Maldonado spent many hours organizing protests against Sheriff Arpaio while working for the grassroots organization Tonatierra. Dr. Maldonado also worked for the United Food & Commercial Workers (UFCW Local 99), the Service Employees International Union (SEIU Local 5), for Mi Familia Vota / My Family Votes Civic Participation Campaign, and as the Program Director for La Union Del Pueblo Entero (LUPE) (a branch of the United Farm Workers of America, AFL-CIO), for Chicanos Por La Causa, and for PUEBLO Center for Legal & Human Rights.
Currently, Dr. Maldonado serves on the Community Advisory Board in the Ortega Melendres vs. Arpaio federal racial profiling case. She is the Operations Director for the Law Office of Ray A. Ybarra Maldonado and a Faculty Associate at Arizona State University. She lives in Phoenix, Arizona with her husband Ray Ybarra Maldonado and their son Ray Emerson.
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