Alvaro M. Huerta serves as Director of Litigation & Advocacy at ImmDef, where he leads ImmDef’s litigation and advocacy efforts in a manner that centers immigrant clients and communities. Alvaro works to defend and advance the rights of immigrants and their family members through strategic appeals, impact litigation, policy advocacy, strategic communications, and community education. His practice includes litigating impact and class action lawsuits challenging anti-immigrant state and federal legislation and administrative policies in order to uphold the due process, equal protection, and civil rights of immigrants and asylum seekers. Alvaro previously served as Senior Attorney at the National Immigration Law Center (NILC), where he started his public interest legal career as a Skadden Fellow. He is a Harvard Law School Wasserstein Public Interest Fellow and has served as an advisory board member, faculty member, and coach for the Shriver Center on Poverty Law’s Racial Justice Institute. After graduating from Stanford Law School in 2010, Alvaro clerked for the Honorable Harry Pregerson on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. He is admitted to the United States Supreme Court; the Fourth, Fifth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits; as well as various federal district courts.

Alvaro is fluent in Spanish and based in Los Angeles, California. He has been interviewed as an expert source for several media outlets, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, The Guardian, Reuters, the Associated Press, the Los Angeles Times, La Opinión, the O.C. Register, NPR, American Public Media, ABC, NBC, Univision, and Telemundo, among others. He is a native of East Los Angeles, a graduate of Yale University, and the proud son and grandson of immigrants to the United States from Mexico.